Bill Belichick Says He’s ‘Focused on Doing My Job’ at UNC amid Jordon Hudson Rumors

UNC football head coach Bill Belichick said he’s “really focused on doing my job” amid news and rumors regarding his girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, per a news conference with reporters on Tuesday (h/t Ben Sherman of Inside Carolina).

“Yeah, I don’t know. Look, I’m really focused on doing my job here at Carolina, to help our football team, and just to get better every day,  to stack those days together, training days, preparation days, days out on the field. And we’ve done that. And our staff’s, again, done a great job of working hard to do that. So that’s my big focus. I mean, is there noise out there? We’ve always dealt with that. Really our job is to build the football team also build their individual career. So that’s really where we’re at.”

Last week, Meadowlark Media’s Pablo Torre’s went on Bill Simmons’ podcast and noted that people close to Belichick are questioning Hudson’s involvement with the program.

“What if I told you that [Belichick’s] inner circle of actual coaches on staff, including a certain Mike Lombardi, is deeply concerned about Jordon Hudson and her presence in the building?” Torre stated. Lombardi was named the general manager of the UNC program after Belichick became the Tar Heels’ head coach last December.

Torre, who has reported about Hudson and Belichick at great length over the past few months, also said in May that she was banned from UNC’s football facility.

That prompted this response from UNC.

There was also the now infamous and bizarre interview that Belichick had with CBS News in April to promote his new book, in which Hudson was in the background interrupting during various portions.

Hudson’s reported insistence on being involved in a previously planned project for Hard Knocks to cover UNC apparently put that to an end as well.

“Jordon Hudson, Belichick’s girlfriend, played an instrumental role in stopping the production, related to her request to be heavily involved in the project, according to multiple industry sources briefed on the negotiations,” Matt Baker, Andrew Marchand and Brendan Marks of The Athletic wrote in part on April 30.

Belichick was asked whether Hudson would be on the sidelines during games this year at the press conference (h/t David Ubben of The Athletic), and he provided this response.

“No, she doesn’t have any role in the UNC football program. But again, there’s been noise out there about a lot of different things. Our focus is day to day, getting better, stacking good days together.”

Belichick, an eight-time Super Bowl champion (six as a head coach, two as a defensive coordinator), is coaching in college for the first time in his life after nearly five decades in the pros. He’s looking to turn around a UNC program that went 6-7 (3-5 in ACC) last year. His first test will be at home against TCU on Monday, Sept. 1.