Bill Belichick's first college football season has been a rollercoaster. His UNC Tar Heels got absolutely smoked in Week 1 by TCU, then managed to bounce back with a Week 2 win over Charlotte. But that victory has been almost completely overshadowed by Belichick's postgame comments in which he confirmed his decision to ban New England Patriots scouts from team facilities because he is not welcome in Foxborough anymore.
It was expected that Belichick's debut season in the NCAA would be worth watching but few expected it to be this kind of circus. Which has opened up the longtime head coach to criticism beyond how his team is performing on the field. To that point, college football media guru Paul Finebaum tore into Belichick on the Rich Eisen Show on Wednesday, calling the head coach "petty and small-minded" before blasting his Patriots ban as "downright stupid."
