Bill Belichick wasn’t interested in turning Monday’s availability into a conversation about his personal life.
The North Carolina coach, now in his second season at UNC, was asked about the TMZ report from Friday that said he and Jordon Hudson quietly ended their relationship late last year. The timing made the question even louder, coming a day before UNC’s 38-35 loss to Miami. Belichick’s response was immediate and sharp.
“Do you work for a tabloid now?” he asked. “I’ll keep my personal comments and relationships to myself if that’s alright with you,” he went on to say.
The Athletic’s Jonathan Jones posted video of the exchange to X, and the reaction online came fast. One fan wrote, “Dumb a** question.
What his personal life have to do with football,” while another said, “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,” A third added, “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,”
The reporter, Patrick Welter, later wrote for WRAL that 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 committed to their business partnerships.
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