Bill Belichick releases statement insisting he won't be pursuing NFL coaching jobs

North Carolina shot caput manager Bill Belichick released a connection Friday nighttime shooting down immoderate anticipation of him pursuing the caput coaching occupation for the New York Giants oregon immoderate NFL team, for that matter. 

"I person large respect and genuinely attraction for the New York Giants enactment and some the Mara and Tisch families," helium wrote. "The New York Giants played an important relation successful my beingness and successful my coaching journey. 

"It was a privilege for maine to enactment for the Mara household and beryllium a subordinate of Coach Parcells unit for implicit a decade. However, contempt circulating rumors, I person not and volition not prosecute immoderate NFL caput coaching vacancies."

Belichick is successful his archetypal play astatine UNC, and aft a unsmooth commencement to the season, determination was speculation helium whitethorn prosecute the Giants occupation aft the squad fired erstwhile caput manager Brian Daboll. 

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North Carolina caput manager Bill Belichick walks disconnected the tract aft a crippled against Syracuse successful Syracuse, N.Y., Oct. 31, 2025. (Adrian Kraus/AP Photo)

But Belichick insists helium is remaining committed to UNC and its upcoming crippled against Wake Forest. 

"Since arriving successful Chapel Hill, my committedness to the UNC Football programme has not [wavered]. We person tremendous enactment from the university, our alumni, and the full Carolina community. My absorption remains solely connected continuing to amended this team, make our players, and physique a programme that makes Tar Heel fans proud. 

"We’re connected to Wake Forest."

BILL BELICHICK VOWS HE'S 'FULLY COMMITTED' TO NORTH CAROLINA FOOTBALL DESPITE SPLIT RUMORS

North Carolina caput manager Bill Belichick and woman Jordon Hudson astatine Kenan Memorial Stadium successful Chapel Hill, N.C., Sept. 1, 2025. (Erick W. Rasco/Sports Illustrated via Getty Images)

Belichick antecedently addressed the concern to reporters earlier this week aft Daboll was fired connected Tuesday. 

"I mean, I’ve been asked astir it from clip to time," helium told reporters. "Look, I’ve been down this roadworthy before. I’m focused connected Wake Forest. That’s it. And that’s my committedness to this team. And adjacent week it’ll beryllium to our adjacent hostile and truthful forth. But I’m present to bash the champion I tin for this team."

Belichick is considered 1 of the top NFL coaches of each time. He won six Super Bowl titles arsenic caput manager of the New England Patriots and 2 much arsenic the antiaircraft coordinator of the Giants nether Bill Parcells.

NFL writer Gary Myers, the writer of "Once a Giant" and "Brady vs. Belichick: The Dynasty Debate," had antecedently suggested that Belichick would spell to large lengths to get the Giants job.

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North Carolina caput manager Bill Belichick directs his squad during the archetypal fractional against Charlotte successful Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 6, 2025.  (AP Photo/Nell Redmond)

"He'd locomotion from Chapel Hill to East Rutherford for this job, I truly judge that," Myers said, via OutKick.

"I deliberation [Belichick] desperately wants the 15 victories to walk [Don] Shula [as the winningest manager of each time] and helium desperately wants to triumph a Super Bowl without [Tom] Brady."

However, Belichick insists that is not the case, for now. 

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