Give Bill Belichick, North Carolina credit for 'really good win' over TCU
Josh Pate breaks down North Carolina's 15-10 upset win over TCU in Ireland -- praising Bill Belichick's defensive adjustments that held TCU scoreless after the first quarter and noting the Tar Heels won as a touchdown underdog in a game many doubted they could compete in. Subscribe to "Josh Pate's College Football Show" on YouTube .
Video Transcript
Bill Belichick is one and O on the season.
For a brief period of time yesterday, I could have put him as the lead candidate for ACC Coach of the Year, and then Tony Elliott had to go do what he did to NC State.
More on that in a second.
So North Carolina beats TCU 15 to 10, and, I had a lot of people that were tagging me, and I didn't respond, but I saw it, and you said, "Say something nice about North Carolina.
You need to say something nice about Bill Belichick."
Well, did you say anything nice?
It's not like I've been trashing this guy and trashing the likelihood that North Carolina would be good and getting a ton of pushback.
In fact, Jesse, I don't remember over the course of the last six months when I stated my opinion on the future of North Carolina, I don't know if we heard from any Tar Heel fan that said, "Nuh-uh."
And truthfully, even yesterday it was muted, but it was a really good win.
Don't ever apologize for winning a game, and don't ever let anyone knock you for winning a game.
There's no such thing as an ugly win in week one especially.
They were a little over a touchdown underdog in this game, and they won it.
Defensive adjustments, that's one thing, man, I won't question Belichick an inch or an ounce on football acumen, which I've made sure to state very plainly for the past several months.
I thought more organizationally it had been a mess over there.
But when you looked at the fact there were, what, 20 combined points scored in the first quarter of this game and then five the rest of the thing, and TCU was a goose egg after the first quarter, buddy, they clamped down and it was over.
And so huge, huge golf clap for North Carolina and that week one win.
And you know, they are a few weeks away from playing Clemson on the road.
So we'll just keep that on the radar
