Bill Belichick’s commitment to North Carolina came with clear warnings. His contract contains a buyout clause.
Regarding this buyout clause, the most important date is June 1, 2025.
That day – just three weeks from tomorrow – the necessary payment in Belichick to leave the agreement goes from $ 10 million to $ 1 million.
Initially, this reduction was considered a quick and easy path to Belichick to return to the NFL. Now it becomes the potential escape hatch of Belichick of what can have become a bad relationship.
The implementation of all the cracks in the Foundation could have existed before, Friday could be the day everything crashed. The report by Pablo Torre, which essentially represents the idea that Belichick was informed that his 24 -year -old girlfriend can no longer work for the football program, could be the thing that did something like what she would have done during her recent CBS interview.
Take hold, proclaim “Bill, we leave” and leave.
In three weeks and one day, he can leave with a seven -digit pen. What is $ 1 million for him? He has already done more than that since he took the post, since his annual salary is $ 10 million.
With the current takeover at $ 10 million, Belichick could not simply go back and go in response to everything that has happened to date. On June 1, he can.
Even if he does not do it, it gives him a small lever effect. If the UNC makes requests he does not like, he can remind them that everything he has to make is to write a check and that he is gone.
There is a chance that, at this stage, the school can welcome this. Maybe they even tell him to keep his million dollars. Maybe at some point, they would even give him $ 1 million or more.
