Belichick is never going to be Mack Brown in a press conference - affable, friendly, kind, a pure gentleman - but he cracked some jokes, articulated his words (which wasn’t always the case in New England) and even sat next to AD Bubba Cunningham, who showed up with a cutoff suit coat, an homage to Belichick’s ram-shackled sideline look in the NFL.

The entire football ecosystem was sent into shock when Bill Belichick agreed to coach college football right in the Carolina Panthers backyard at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Belichick, the second-winningest NFL head coach of all-time and famous curmudgeon is set to pull a Will Ferrell in 'Old School ' and head back to college.

One of the subtle surprises about Bill Belichick taking over as the head coach at North Carolina was the five-year contract signed by the 72-year-old. The school's official statement came out a few hours after reports that Belichick had agreed to a three-year deal.