Gio Lopez paints a predictable picture of playing for Bill Belichick at UNC
North Carolina, under Bill Belichick, fancies itself the NFL's 33rd team. The better description is the NCAA's equivalent of Belichick's Patriots. Without, to date, the winning.
Former UNC quarterback Gio Lopez, who played for Belichick in his first year as a college coach, has transferred to Wake Forest. To hear it from Lopez, it sounds less like a transfer and more like an escape. "Back at the other school, it felt like there’s no air ," Lopez recently said, via Logan Lazarczyk of SI.
com. "Here, it's fun again. They're moving us in the right direction, energized, and guys are enjoying football.
It's like fresh air. I'd never had to respond to tough situations like that on that loud of a scale. " What was the biggest difference about playing football under Belichick?
"It was more like work," Lopez said. "After that first game, it felt like getting through the day. You don't want to live like that, where you're up at night thinking about the next day.