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Editor’s Note: CBS Sports’ Jonathan Jones reported Tuesday morning negotiations between HBO, NFL Films and the UNC football program have fallen through and that the Tar Heels will not be featured on “Hard Knocks.” This edition of Art Chansky’s Sports Notebook was written and recorded before Jones’ report was published.
The line keeps getting finer for Carolina football.
On the eve of Bill Belichick’s first-ever spring practice as a college football coach, season ticket sales and anxiety are staying neck and neck over what the new era will produce.
Aside from showing up in controversial and humorous photos with his 24-year-old girlfriend, Belichick is the subject of more serious stuff. No one seems to know what kind of personnel will don shorts and pads under a new coaching staff in practice outside and inside Koman Field House.
In the macro, UNC football is indirectly addressing Carolina grad John Drescher’s piece on The Assembly website, likening the collapse of Kodak to the perils of Tar Heel basketball and other teams may be facing for staying too internal and not bringing in new blood from the outside.
Belichick may be old blood but is certainly new blood, and we can’t wait to see what it looks like. Here is hoping that UNC opens up spring practice to the inquiring public, like Belichick did with the Patriots summer training camp.
The quarterback room has gone from empty to full but with only one player we know, and that is Max Johnson if he is fully recovered from a severely broken leg in last year’s opener at Minnesota. Everyone else may be talented, but several are recent high school graduates and others transfers.
The publicity around Chapel Bill’s new roster has been great for Tar Heel football, as long as it doesn’t crash and burn against TCU on Labor Day night. We may anxiously get a glimpse of that on HBO when Carolina is the first college team featured in the new edition of the Hard Knocks series.
This was arranged shortly after Belichick took the job, and it has rankled some owners who don’t like losing what they thought of as an NFL asset to one of its most famous and infamous alumni coaches. Reports say that HBO didn’t want to cover certain NFL teams, and others declined.
The New York Giants were portrayed in a poor light and then lost star running back Saquon Barkley, who signed with the Eagles and led them to the Super Bowl they won by skunking the two-time defending champion Chiefs.
Hard Knocks in a cushy college town should make for a nice contrast, more interesting than at a true power programs in the SEC. Hopefully it will show a team that is more organized than the dysfunctional Giants, but that seems like a tough putt with all the learning BB’s new staff undergoes.
General Manager Mike Lombardi, who has worked with Belichick for about 30 years, will likely be a central figure in the series because he is not a coach but knows more about the boss and his ways than anyone else.
What the rest of college football will think in terms of a recruiting advantage for Carolina remains to be seen. But they will be watching, for sure.
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Art Chansky is a veteran journalist who has written ten books, including best-sellers “Game Changers,” “Blue Bloods,” and “The Dean’s List.” He has contributed to WCHL for decades, having made his first appearance as a student in 1971. His “Sports Notebook” commentary airs daily on the 97.9 The Hill WCHL and his “Art’s Angle” opinion column runs weekly on Chapelboro.Chapelboro.com does not charge subscription fees, and you can directly support our efforts in local journalism here. Want more of what you see on Chapelboro? Let us bring free local news and community information to you by signing up for our newsletter.
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