Former UNC quarterback blasts Bill Belichick, Tar Heels' culture
Former UNC quarterback Gio Lopez did not enjoy his one season in Chapel Hill, and it had a lot to do with head coach Bill Belichick.
The first year and a half of the Bill Belichick experience at North Carolina has not gone as well as the people who hired him or Tar Heel fans would have liked. The football team finished 4-8, making headlines only for the strange relationship between the head coach and Jordon Hudson, his 25-year-old girlfriend, and the control she seemed to have taken on the program. Now, a former UNC quarterback is speaking out about the atmosphere surrounding the Tar Heel program, and Duke fans everywhere will be delighted to hear what he had to say.
"Back at the other school, it felt like there's no air," Gio Lopez, now at Wake Forest, told ESPN'sĀ David Hale . "Here, it's fun again. They're moving us in the right direction, energized, and guys are enjoying football.
It's like fresh air. " Lopez spent only one season in Chapel Hill, and from listening to him, it might have seemed to last longer than 12 months. "After that first game, it felt like getting through the day," he said.
"You don't want to live like that, where you're up at night thinking about the next day. " This article originally appeared on Duke Wire: Former UNC quarterback blasts Bill Belichick, Tar Heels' culture