What Bill Belichick said before UNC's first practice

North Carolina head football coach Bill Belichick met with reporters Tuesday before the Tar Heels held their first practice of spring camp. UNC opens a five-week spring practice schedule Tuesday afternoon, giving the first real glimpse at a dramatically retooled roster that includes 60 newcomers after last year’s 4-8, 2-6 ACC finish. Belichick’s full press conference from Tuesday is below.

Scroll down for notable excerpts. Q: With a full calendar year in college now, what are your biggest takeaways from last year and what have you learned? BELICHICK: The biggest thing was being late on everything last year.

We were behind on recruiting, behind on the first portal, and then had to make so many changes with the second portal that the team that went to training camp was a lot different from the team that finished spring practice. There will be a couple of changes between the end of spring practice and the start of fall camp, probably, but for the most part I’d say 95 percent of our team is in place. We’ll get a few freshmen who enter in June, but most everybody is here.

We’ll have a full year of working with them, and that’s way different than last year. I wish we could have started on time last year, but it was what it was, and we’re moving on. Q: You kept a lot of freshmen and brought in a lot of new guys.