It’s been a rough start for Bill Belichick at Chapel Hill.

The Tar Heels sit 2-2, but have only beaten FCS opponents, while being blown out by the two Power 4 teams they’ve faced. They host the reeling Clemson Tigers this weekend and remain 14-point underdogs, despite Dabo Swinney’s own underwhelming start.

So what’s going wrong at North Carolina?

One Group of 5 coach reportedly told The Athletic that Belichick and Mike Lombardi simply assembled a bad roster, and the coach knew North Carolina was going to struggle when they were recruiting the same players this offseason.

“What I think they miscalculated is with the way they were taking (players) in the portal and paying dudes,” the anonymous Group of 5 coach told The Athletic. “It made me wonder, did they actually understand the

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