• The Bill Belichick experiment will be hailed a success so long as North Carolina gets to call its shot in the next round of conference realignment. • North Carolina's brand might be ready for prime time, but its team isn't on the level of the SEC or the Big Ten. • Can Bill Belichick maintain a Deion Sanders-like effect for North Carolina? He electrified UNC football for one night, but will that last?

The luminaries assembled the way luminaries do. Jordan. Roy. The Muse . They gathered in luxury boxes .

They hovered above a sell-out crowd of 50,500 to create a scene worthy to be dubbed college football in the South. Maybe, one day, even worthy to be called college football in the SEC.

Because, that’s what this is about. You didn’t really think North Carolina hired Bill Belichick to

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