Bill Belichick is approaching his first season in charge of North Carolina’s football program, but his relationship has been at the forefront. Former NFL cornerback Domonique Foxworth weighed in.
Domonique Foxworth Discusses Bill Belichick’s Relationship
When Belichick grabbed the controls of the North Carolina Tar Heels, nobody would’ve predicted his 24-year-old girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, would become the center of attention.
Rather than his early work with his new program, Belichick’s relationship is the hot-button topic, especially after a bumpy recent sit-down interview with CBS.
Former NFL cornerback Foxworth and fellow ESPN analyst Mike Golic Jr. discussed how Hudson’s involvement might affect his perception in Chapel Hill.
“She has probably, in a very real world, addressed that football team already during her tenure there,” Golic said of Hudson last Wednesday on “The Domonique Foxworth Show.” “Looking at all of that, yes, at some point— because it so clearly seems to have seeped into every other part of Bill Belichick’s life — I would have to imagine that this is something that, at the very least … does seem legitimately distracting at this point in the narrative.”
“And part of it is their own doing. Like, this interview was textbook Streisand Effect where you could have come up with a very easy answer about how you met and, instead, you create all of this intrigue now by going up there and shutting it down as vociferously as she did. So, I definitely think this adds a layer of intrigue to North Carolina’s football season coming up that, at this point in their program life cycle, I doubt they’re really itching for.”
Foxworth pointed to Todd Golden, Les Miles, Rick Pitino, Bobby Petrino, and Urban Meyer, all prominent collegiate coaches who have dealt with issues unrelated to their jobs. Foxworth’s point is that each of those coaches have still.
“I’m not sure that, (during) this modern era of football, with these guys, that they are as put off by this as us old dudes are,” Foxworth said. “As the world moves on, I think the social norms shift and, for that cohort, we are not as familiar with the norms that they are comfortable with. … I’m not sure that what would’ve qualified as a distraction for me in 2001, when I got to Maryland, would qualify as a distraction for these kids (who) are on TikTok 40 hours a day.”
Foxworth argued that, as long as the Tar Heels results on the field aren’t affected, players aren’t “going to make them forget that he got eight Super Bowl rings.” Golic agreed.
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“None of this really matters if they go out there and perform well, if it’s business as usual,” Golic said. “The way that this could start to come up is if people start to pull on this thread when they lose games, if they lose games. If, all of the sudden, the greatest NFL football coach that we’ve ever seen goes to college … and could have that go poorly.”
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