Bill Belichick contract details: Report reveals salary, length of deal for UNC head coach

After news broke of Bill Belichick’s pending hire at North Carolina, details of his contract started to come out. His deal was initially reported be for three years and worth $30 million to become the UNC head coach, according to The Athletic’s Ralph Russo and Brendan Marks. The school later announced Belichick agreed to a five-year deal.

News of North Carolina’s pursuit of Belichick broke last week when he reportedly interviewed to replace Mack Brown in Chapel Hill. Conversations continued and heated up from there, and the two sides met for five hours on Sunday, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported.

From there, the two sides continued to talk before ultimately finalizing the agreement Wednesday. It’s a landmark hire for UNC, which brings in one of the all-time great coaches in NFL history to take over its program.

Belichick’s credentials speak for themselves. He has eight Super Bowl rings, including six with the New England Patriots alongside Tom Brady, and is considered arguably the greatest coach in NFL history. During his career as a head coach with the Patriots and Cleveland Browns, Belichick has a 302-165 record.

After parting ways with the Patriots last year, Bill Belichick took a major step into the media world this season. He appears on the ManningCast during the first half when games air on ESPN2 and has a weekly spot on The Pat McAfee Show. He also does work with Underdog Fantasy and appears on Inside The NFL on The CW.

Now, Bill Belichick has a return to coaching in his sights – at a place he knows well. His father, a longtime coach at Navy, served as a backfield coach at North Carolina in the 1950s. His son, Steve Belichick, is also wrapping up his first season as the defensive coordinator at Washington under Jedd Fisch.

But as he transitions to the college game, Belichick said he has a plan. He detailed it during his regular appearance with McAfee earlier this week.

“If I was in a college program, the college program would be a pipeline to the NFL for the players that had the ability to play in the NFL,” Belichick said. “It would be a professional program — training, nutrition, scheme, coaching techniques — that would transfer to the NFL. It would be an NFL program at a college level and an education that would get the players ready for their career after football, whether that was the end of their college career or at the end of their pro career. But it would be geared toward developing the player, time management, discipline, structure and all that.

“I feel very confident that I have the contacts in the National Football League to pave the way for those players that would have the ability to have the opportunity to compete in the National Football League. Whether they’re good enough or not, I don’t know, but they would be ready for it. I don’t have any doubt about that.”