The North Carolina Tar Heels ' football program made one of the biggest surprise hires of the offseason after signing Bill Belichick to a five-year contract with an annual salary of $10 million. However, most of the guarantees are within the first three years of the deal.

Bill Belichick is adding another seasoned NFL coach to his staff at North Carolina. Mike Priefer will be the new special teams coordinator for the Tar Heels, according to ESPN’s Pete Thamel. Priefer, 58, coached special teams for more than two decades across the NFL.

Could Bill Belchick’s tenure as North Carolina football coach be over before it truly gets started? That is exactly what the folks at Chapel Hill are becoming concerned about based on the staff hires Belichick has made – as well as the ones he hasn’t since taking the job a month ago,

Bill Belichick is in the process of filling out his first staff at the University of North Carolina. Belichick has already hired his offensive and defensive coordinators, retaining Freddie Kitchens from Mack Brown's staff for the former role and bringing in his son Steve for the latter.

Last month, former New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick shockingly accepted a job as the head coach at the University of North Carolina, leaving his NFL past behind for the college game where he'll coach for the first time in his career.

Six-time Super Bowl champion Bill Belichick is reportedly 'making people nervous' that his gig as head coach of the University of North Carolina football team could be over before it truly gets started.