Bill Belichick is about to enter his first season as the coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels, and he is learning that life in the college ranks has some advantages over the NFL . One of those benefits is the lack of meddling owners -- and their sons.

In an interview with The Boston Globe , Belichick noted that there are fewer people to answer to in college, making operations "much more cohesive" and "unified." There is an athletic director and big-time boosters, but nothing like the formal hierarchy of NFL franchises.

"There's no owner, there's no owner's son, there's no cap, everything that goes with the marketing and everything else, which I'm all for that," Belichick said. "But it's way less of what it was at that level. Generic NFL teams , you have the owner, president, genera

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