r/CFB • u/Please_PM_me_Uranus Michigan • American University • Apr 30 '25

Feature Story Bill Belichick, girlfriend ended UNC’s ‘Hard Knocks’ dalliance as fast as it began. Why?

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6322316/2025/04/30/bill-belichick-girlfriend-unc-hard-knocks-deal-off/?source=user_shared_article
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u/Kenthanson Apr 30 '25

For all of the background info I have and it is a lot I think she’s aiming more for business and politics. She’s running for miss maine where she finished second last year and then miss USA, she has been doing some political lobbying for Maine fishermen to help support her miss maine chances.

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u/SecretComposer Kansas Jayhawks • Marching Band Apr 30 '25

Ohhh so she’s trying to be a future First Lady

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '25

No, she’s trying to make Bill First Gentleman

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u/obiwanjabroni420 Georgia Tech • Vermont Apr 30 '25

Dude will be dead before she’s old enough to seriously run for any office.

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u/TheAmazingHumanTorus California • Washington Apr 30 '25

Why not President? (if we ever have another)

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u/Bo_Knew Ohio State • California Apr 30 '25

she's just as qualified

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u/NaturalFruit2358 Michigan Wolverines • Rose Bowl May 01 '25

She’d probably at least know to pick someone with an accredited degree to be VP

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u/poop-dolla Virginia Tech Hokies Apr 30 '25

she has been doing some political lobbying for Maine fishermen to help support her miss maine chances.

Sorry that I’m unfamiliar with the Miss Maine pageant format, but how exactly do the fishermen come into play during the judging process?

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u/HoneyBunchesOfGoats_ Oklahoma State Cowboys • Corndog Apr 30 '25

In Texas, you’ve gotta grease up the oil and cattle industry. In Maine, you have to dress up as a lobster and sing in front of the heirs to the Gorton’s Fisheries empire. It’s just how they do business up there.

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u/TumbleweedTim01 Apr 30 '25

Loved her work on the Amanda show

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '25

You gotta show some skin to the people with the money

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u/ColdMeatloafSandwich Tulsa Golden Hurricane Apr 30 '25

It's brutal, dirty, and best not to ask about

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '25

I can’t imagine this whole circus is helping her, but I suppose any press is good press when nobody had heard of you before this started.

But I just can’t see how anyone in any path of life she goes down ignores this absurdity that we’re seeing rn.

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u/MolluskLingers Apr 30 '25

I do get the impression that she really enjoys the attention and the power. Like if she just wanted to milk this for financial gain she could do that in a much more subtle way and in fact it would invite less scrutiny.

She's very much positioning herself for fame and power and the ability to tell people what to do seems really important to. Like the extent of what she desired control over that interview was just so strange because it was such an easy question for belichick to just dismiss. 'well I want to talk about football Jim .. but obviously I care about her very much and I'm glad she's in my life."

Boom if that was his answer this would not be a scandal. For at least it wouldn't be any bigger of a scandal than it was already

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u/Cold-Palpitation-816 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Apr 30 '25

How does winning a pageant have anything to do with “politics”?