Bill Belichick wasn’t interested in going there.
On Monday, the North Carolina coach was asked about the Jordon Hudson breakup report that surfaced last week, and he shut it down immediately. TMZ reported Friday that Belichick and Hudson had quietly ended their relationship late last year, with the news becoming public a day before UNC’s 38-35 loss to Miami. When the topic came up again on Monday, Belichick made it clear he wanted no part of it.
“Do you work for a tabloid now?” he asked.
He followed that up with, “I’ll keep my personal comments and relationships to myself if that’s alright with you,”
The Athletic’s Jonathan Jones posted video of the exchange on X.
Reaction online was swift, with plenty of fans backing Belichick’s refusal to engage. “Dumb a** question.
What his personal life have to do with football,” one fan wrote. “It’s kind of a bogus question and I don’t even like defending anything UNC related.
Asking a coach about his alleged Ex-GF in the middle of football season is stupid,” another fan said. “Everything now is questions regurgitated from Twitter.
I don’t even like this guy but this is the right answer. Talk about football and if you don’t know how to ask questions about football maybe you need to be doing something else,” a third fan added.
The reporter who asked the question, Patrick Welter, later published a WRAL piece saying there was little evidence the relationship had ended. “Sources in and around the program told WRAL that they’d seen little evidence to suggest the couple wasn’t together. Hudson didn’t respond to a request for comment,” he wrote, with Brian Murphy adding that “Hudson has remained a presence around the North Carolina football program this season and has been spotted with Belichick at various events in the area.”
TMZ also reported that the two remain close friends and are still committed to their business partnerships.
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