SPORTS PAGE | The humbling of the hoodie. TCU schools Belichick in college debut

The following is a transcript of Eric Crawford Sports Page segment from Sept. 2, 2025. New segments air on WDRB News Monday through Thursday.

Admit it. For a little while, at the start of Monday night’s Bill Belichick college football debut, when North Carolina marched down the field and scored in seven plays to take a 7-0 lead, you probably thought the same thing I did.

Uh oh. This could be a problem. What if the hoodie is back? What if the hype is real?

Then the rest of the game happened. You know the story. North Carolina came out on their first drive and looked like the Patriots. The rest of the game, they looked like the Panthers.

Just when UNC’s student section was about to change its major en masse to Advanced Dynasty Studies, TCU scored 41 straight points. Like they were running a scrimmage against a JV team.

It wasn’t just a loss. It was the worst defensive performance of Belichick’s career. Six Super Bowl rings, but his first night back to school ended with a 48-14 harpooning.

It was so bad that by the end of the game ESPN was taking it back to the broadcast booth with shots of Kirk Herbstreit’s dog. Ruff. Not even cutaways of Belichick’s 24-year-old girlfriend Jordon Hudson could save this one.

And the memes. Painful. UNC students brought an “Air Jordon” sign of Belichick doing yoga shirtless on the beach. Somebody posted a picture of his girlfriend with the caption “Transfer Portal.”

When you’re losing worse online than you are on the field, it’s a bad night.

So the Tar Heels got a full house, sold some sweatshirts, got a ton of pregame publicity which – it turns out – TCU didn’t much appreciate. And they emptied the stadium by the third quarter.

Belichick says they’ll ‘go back to work.’ Good plan. Because here in college football country, tanking doesn’t get you a better draft pick, and a hoodie, apparently, doesn’t mean what it used to.