Pablo Torre’s investigations into North Carolina head coach Bill Belichick have set the world ablaze, from discussions about his relationship with girlfriend Jordon Hudson to his coaching future.
Torre revealed the Tar Heel program had banned Hudson from the facilities, something they later disputed in a statement. Now, he’s breaking the silence with what he knows about the ban.
Pablo Torre Spills All On Jordon Hudson’s UNC ‘Ban’
Torre elaborated on what he knew on the topic, telling NBC Sports’ Mike Florio that North Carolina’s statement left some information to be desired.
“Thank you for letting me clarify. Part of the thing that I find as I do magazine-style journalism in a podcast medium, is that, when I say ‘ban’ I mean it and stand by it, but I’m also not implying snipers were ready to take her out,” Torre told Florio. “So, there are gradations.”
“Given the terror-alert scale of banning, I was probably a bit flippant in my conversational presentation about what it means when the university says to Jordon Hudson: ‘You’re not welcome here, you’re not wanted here, you cannot be here.’ … And so the PR statement that you just cited, it’s fascinating as a PR-statement-ologist. They could’ve said, ‘This reporting is incorrect. She is welcomed here anytime.’ They did not.”
Torre also discussed UNC’s newly hired PR specialist Brandon Faber, who has seemingly replaced Hudson’s position in the spotlight.
“To add a bit of a wrinkle here, CBS Sunday Morning initially said — and this is something I did not put in the episode but reported — they wanted to that thing … at Chapel Hill,” Torre said.
“They wanted to do that at North Carolina, and Jordon Hudson was the one that said, ‘No, no. We have that for something else.’ So already she’s affecting one of the biggest platforms to market the football team. And then of course, getting to Hard Knocks, they’re supposed to do that, and then Jordon Hudson was responsible for that blowing up too.”
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“So the whole idea that she’s off to the side, she was never involved, I’ve seen enough reporters that love to suck up to coaches that are like, ‘Look, the Jordon Hudson story was widely exaggerated from the start.”
“And all I can tell them is that you guys got to do some reporting if you think that it’s plausible, that we are overestimating the impact here. Because it’s verified, documented and now increasingly public. Like they’re missing the story, and that’s what’s also darkly humorous about this.”
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