University of North Carolina head football coach Bill Belichick just wants to talk about football.
Belichick, the 73-year-old coach and eight-time Super Bowl champion, hosted a Q&A session at the Kenan Football Center in Chapel Hill on Tuesday to provide updates on the football program.
It came just one day after an article from Brendan Marks of The Athletic – where the reporter did a deep dive into the background of Belichick’s 24-year-old girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, only to have Belichick answer the door at the address of the agent listed on her LLC filings.
The setting on Tuesday was much less sudden – with Belichick warmly greeting reporters with questions about the football team and its progress.
However, he did get asked a pair of questions which addressed his personal life – which the former Patriots coach dodged.
When a reporter inquired about the biggest misconception about him and his time at UNC, Belichick replied, ‘Yeah, I don’t know. Look, I’m really focused on doing my job here at Carolina, to help our football team, and just to get better every day, to stack those days together, training days, preparation days, days out on the field.
UNC football coach Bill Belichick dodged questions about his personal life on Tuesday
Belichick has been under increased scrutiny over his relationship with Jordon Hudson
That’s after Belichick recently answered the door at an address listed on Hudson’s LLC filings
‘And we’ve done that. And our staff’s, again, done a great job of working hard to do that. So that’s my big focus. I mean, is there noise out there?
‘We’ve always dealt with that. Really our job is to build the football team also build their individual career. So that’s really where we’re at.’
When asked a follow-up if the interest in his personal life took away from the experience of coming back to coach, Belichick once again dodged – but this time, decided to plug his upcoming book ‘The Art of Winning’.
‘Again, on some of the noises out there, the book and stuff like that. I mean, it is what it is,’ Belichick said.
‘That’s a personal venture that I entered into when I wasn’t in coaching last year, and hopefully that’ll be a big purchase on Father’s Day.’
With Fathers Day coming up on Sunday, it’s a perfect time for Belichick to make a promotion for his book which was released last month.
However, it does come amid a backdrop of confusion about Belichick and Hudson’s business dealings.
The report from The Athletic explains how Marks tracked down the address for a New England-based lawyer called Joshua Christian, who is the listed resident agent on several of Hudson’s LLCs.
But when the reporter knocked on the door, Belichick himself answered.
Belichick reportedly claimed he hasn’t heard of Jordon Hudson’s legal representative
The report describes Belichick as wearing North Caroline blue gym shorts and adds: ‘His usually stoic expression is decidedly less so, though, replaced instead with something between confusion and unease.’
The article continues: ‘Belichick tells me he doesn’t know a Joshua Christian, who organized his girlfriend’s LLCs. So if this isn’t Christian’s property, I ask, is it Belichick’s? Silence. There’s the coach everyone knows.’
This follows on from a disastrous CBS Sunday Morning interview back in April where Hudson interrupted the interview multiple times – and even caused a half hour delay when she stormed out and expected Belichick to follow.
Shortly after the CBS backlash, Hudson competed in a beauty pageant in Maine, finishing third.
She appeared to address the intensifying scrutiny placed upon her with a speech to the audience, where Belichick sat alongside her father Heath.
‘I’m feeling an immense amount of pride right now,’ she said. ‘I hope anyone who’s watching this finds the strength to push through whatever it is that they’re going through, and embodies that hate never wins.’
Daily Mail exclusively reported after the CBS interview that Hudson had amassed a $9million real estate portfolio since she began dating the NFL great.