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Bill Belichick’s fate will be decided on the field. We hope.

What has been billed in some circles as the “greatest hire in the history of college football” has gradually set off a social media spark that could be turning into a dumpster fire.

Belichick’s young girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, has been by the veteran coach’s side from the day they stepped on the UNC campus. At his historic-like introductory press conference, Hudson held welcome flowers she received.

Since then, it appears that Hudson’s role will be somewhere between the average college coach’s wife and a co-general manager to Mike Lombardi. And it makes you wonder what is being said in the hallways of UNC athletics.

No statements have been released except one that Hudson will review some emails sent directly to Belichick. Hudson is definitely a social media influencer with thousands of followers on her platforms. But the way she has handled her influence has become national news.

Belichick and Hudson are consenting adults even with their four-decade age difference. As a duo, one of them may appear regularly in tattered sweatshirts while the other is dressed glamorously if not provocatively. But a mutual agreement on their roles is what has tongues wagging.

The Athletic reported this week that the once-agreed-upon Hard Knocks special on HBO/Max about Belichick and his first college team was scrapped just before taping started because Hudson wanted to be an “executive producer” of the series. HBO declined and decommitted.

Then the CBS Sunday Morning segment, taped at a Boston recording studio, was interrupted at least once by Hudson’s off-camera comments. The interview featured Belichick’s forthcoming book, which went off the rails several times before CBS stopped the taping with what it had.

Now, you only hear crickets from the UNC campus, which has always been a sure sign that chancellors and deans and trustees are hoping all the controversy slowly fades away before they have to say anything. But something between a Hall of Fame coach and his girlfriend of three years, well, there is nothing written in any university manual about that.

Have there been relationships between coaches and people they weren’t supposed to be involved with? Sure, you remember the Arkansas football coach who got caught joyriding on his motorcycle with a student trainer?

But that coach got fired, and Belichick is just starting a guaranteed $30 million contract that was not supposed to have more than the normal baggage. What does the chancellor, the athletic director and the trustees say when wealthy alumni who have their cell phone numbers continue calling?

If Belichick can patch together a lineup to play with TCU on Labor Day night, much of this will be forgotten. But if the Tar Heels don’t do so well under their “rookie” head coach, Belichick’s leash might be a lot shorter if his college experience starts looking like a failure for reasons that have little to do with football between the lines.

Featured image via Associated Press/Chris Seward

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