Michael Lombardi

applies for Carolina and East Tennessee State.

We chatted about this on Thursday, about how winning kind of erases some of the things that have been going on behind the scenes with the resignation of Michael Lombardi and the ongoing investigation and the awkward press conference on Labor Day with the coach who really didn't answer a lot of questions but couldn't answer the questions.

And it was kind of this on and on and on thing.

And it's the first chance for...

let's move on to number two

All right, so this is my buddy, Michael Lombardi.

Michael Lombardi.

We said he was an emerging bonehead.

Right.

Who's struggling.

I think Mario Cristobal was one of the segments, right? Mario, we need to talk, right? You've, you botched things at Oregon.

Now you're botching things at Miami, right? Meanwhile, the guy made a national championship last year, right? And what does Michael Lombardi do? He gets hired by Belichick to go to North

And of course, Carolina football has the spotlight tomorrow, hosting East Tennessee State in their home opener at noon.

The Tar Heels are one and O after upsetting TCU in their season opener, but it's been a rough two weeks ever since, with the abrupt resignation of GM Michael Lombardi, new revelations in the ongoing internal investigation of the program, and still more whispers about Bill Belichick's job security.

With more on Carolina football, 97.9 The Hills, Michael Ko.

It's been 13 days since UNC got TCU to jump off sides.

After all, who knows how good TCU actually is?

is?The point being, the UNC headlines for once were all football related.

But that pleasant break didn't even last a week, as last Thursday, suspended general manager Michael Lombardi resigned, and WRAL published a bombshell report about the program's internal investigation.

Belichick's press conference Monday turned surreal as reporters grilled the curmudgeonly coach about whether his program truly is compliant with NCAA rules.

The university just-

That's on top of Michael Lombardi, their GM, or whatever you wanna call him, having to resign 'cause of improprieties or whatever the heck was going on.

It's like-

Not only that

university just...

That's on top of Michael Lombardi, their GM or whatever you want to call him, having to resign because of improprieties or whatever the heck was going on.

Not only that, not only that, they just came out and

self-reported.

out.

That's on top of Michael Lombardi, their GM, or whatever you want to call him, having to resign because of improprieties or whatever the heck was going on.

Not only that, they just came out and self-reported.

Oh, wow.

We were both in Tallahassee when Florida State lost to SMU, putting more heat on Mike Norvell.

And then, of course, at North Carolina, Michael Lombardi is out.

Steve Belichick still on leave.

Questions swirling about Bill Belichick's future hail.

Speaking of untenable situations, Hale, let's bring our attention to North Carolina.

See, I'm glad you did that, right? You're getting the hang of how we do all of these transitions.

So we were off the air last Thursday when news broke that Michael Lombardi, the general manager, the handpicked general manager, of bill belichick was out at north carolina he decided to resign uh but there was obviously an investigation into his conduct during his time at north carolina steve belichick bill's son uh the dc remains on leave uh reports swirling about his involvement with some of the maybe wrongdoing uh with uh michael lombardi uh during his brief tenure at north carolina now there's rumors and speculation about what is bill belichick's future going to look like at north carolina hale you've done a lot of reporting you've talked to a lot of folks in chapel hill what is your take on what's happening there right now

Andrew, you know, we're going to talk to the freezing cold takes guy later in the show, and I wish we could go back and find if it wasn't on this show.

the son of Bill Belichick.

Um, they involve Michael Lombardi.

Um, and you know what? At the end of the day, it involves Bill Belichick.

He runs that organization.

You've seen it before in college athletics where there's an off-ramp.

It feels like North Carolina is trying to see where that off-ramp actually is here, and if the investigation comes back, and you've got Steve Belichick allegedly doing drugs, having relations with potential students, it, it, it involves players.

You got Michael Lombardi who resigned from North Carolina.

I'm just telling you, all this is lining up for them to hit Bill Belichick with a lack of institutional control, and that would also potentially get them out of the buyout that he would be owed.