Under the ACC’s current scheduling model, the UNC only plays Boston College once in the next six seasons — 2028 in Chapel Hill. Unless they change the schedule format, the soonest Belichick could come back to New England in a power blue hoodie — and that’s not guaranteed — would be 2031, when he’d be 79. Seventy-nine.

Bill Belichick's decision to become UNC's next football coach was a stunner. But the NFL world made clear there was no place left for the legend.