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it is very clear his family is unhappy
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with what's going on he's not getting
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internal support within his family for
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this situation yeah it's it's crazy you
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know the thing that I I and I still
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believe he's not going to coach a game
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like I told you earlier I have not
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believed he was going to coach a game
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ever since he was introduced as UNCC's
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head coach but um what I find really
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interesting is Steve Bichc proved at
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Washington last year he's a competent
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defensive coordinator like Washington
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was bad but their defense wasn't the
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problem particularly the secondary steve
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there was a path for Steve Bichc to
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become a college football head coach
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eventually he tried to hit fast forward
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and now I wonder if UNC cuts ties if
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it's going to be cut ties with the
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entire Bellich family my colleague Joe
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Gillio has been hitting a wall in foyer
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requests trying to get a copy of Steve's
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contract um he asked Bubba Cunningham
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who is the athletic director at UNCC uh
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if it is in Bill Bich's contract that
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Steve is the coach and waiting and Bubba
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said there is no language about that in
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Bill's contract and it was only the next
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day that it dawned on Jillio i should
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have asked about Steve's contract well
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that gave you time to make sure they
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don't let that get out in a uh in a
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foyer request um I I just I don't see
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how this ends with Bill on the sideline
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for uh week one i think is it is it the
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Friday night game or the Sunday night
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game uh when they play TCU i just don't
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see how they let that happen so you
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don't think he coaches a game at No i
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mean you know it's interesting like I
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said I I thought this was a setup to
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where he was going to retire and the
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only logical move for UNCC would be to
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give Steve Bichc the job he gets a very
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favorable schedule you with UNCC listen
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this is NC State not UNCC but to give
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you an idea of the college football um
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environment in the triangle the Philip
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Rivers team at NC State that won 10
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games got a parade thrown for them and
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they went to the Gator Bowl right like I
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mean very different from Alabama where I
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went to school like that you know the
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Gator Bowl you get fired um it would be
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really hard not to get to eight wins and
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around here eight wins would be
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something that would make an athletic
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department say we should invest in this
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guy i I thought that was the plan all
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well it does strike me that part of this
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is just to make Saturdays relevant i
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mean you kind of pointed this out like
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just get us to basketball season and I
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know I when I worked in Kansas City both
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Missou and Kansas as athletic programs
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were kind of like this just don't
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embarrass us in the fall so we can get
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to basketball season specifically a
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Kansas yeah and it it does strike me
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that yeah if you give me nine and three
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eight and four that means that there's a
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couple of Saturdays in October that I
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can feel good about going out to watch a
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game if I'm alumni if I'm a booster etc
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and then whenever Midnight Madness is
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for college hoops I'm all in so eight
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and four nine and three at UNCC is a
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wild success probably as long as it's
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not a punchline to get to nine and three
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right i mean and look there are teams on
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that schedule that when I first saw it
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like before they had a head coach I
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first saw it last year um looked like oh
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well there's a loss like you know UCF I
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mean UCF rehired Scott Frost i don't
3:34
believe in UCF right like it's going to
3:36
be it's going to be really hard to
3:37
envision UNC not being multiple games
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above 500 i I've seen it in the past
3:45
where that happens like Larry Fedora had
3:47
a year where he he was he ran into the
3:50
first buzzsaw Clemson team in the ACC
3:52
championship game but you know he got
3:54
that team to the ACC championship game
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and the problem is as the stakes get
3:59
higher later in the season dude Tarhill
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fans are all ready to they're already
4:04
ready to go across campus to the Dean
4:05
Dub it's just the the nature here it
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makes no sense to me but you know I've
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lived here for 20 years now i I know
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it's the truth with that fan
