ESPN’s Paul Finebaum Absolutely Torches ‘Bully’ Bill Belichick and Predicts He’ll Be Fired This Season: ‘One of the Worst College Football Coaches’

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ESPN college football pundit Paul Finebaum pulled no punches Tuesday in a scathing critique of University of North Carolina coach Bill Belichick.

The Tar Heels open their season in Dublin, Ireland, against TCU on Saturday. Belichick’s coaching debut last season was disastrous at best, with the team finishing 4-8 and the 74-year-old finding himself in controversial headlines all year. In addition to his relationship with the much younger Jordon Hudson being a constant source of scrutiny, Belichick and his staff were criticized for the way the ran the football program.

With all of these things taken into consideration, Finebaum predicted on First Take that Belichick would be fired sometime this season.

“I’m not pulling for Bill Belichick,” Finebaum said. “He’s a grouch, he’s a bully, and his career in college is about to go down in flames. He lost Michael Lombardi, his chief assistant and GM. His son disappeared from the staff a couple of weeks ago as a defensive coordinator. It is mass chaos in Chapel Hill, and I don’t believe they’ll win this game in Ireland. And I don’t think Bill Belichick is going to survive until the end of the season.”

Finebaum went on to declare that Belichick “did it to himself” and even discredited his Super Bowl championships by claiming “it was Tom Brady who led him to all those” wins.

“Bill Belichick had to find a university that would offer him a job, and he would show the world that he is the greatest coach of all time,” Finebaum continued. “Instead, he’s proven to be a disaster. He’s one of the worst college football coaches — in a short period of time — I have ever seen, and I see no way this is going to be a successful landing or ending for Belichick.”

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