Before the University of North Carolina ended up here — here being an introductory press conference for one of the most successful professional football coaches ever, but one who has never coached a single collegiate down,

After a complicated week of “will they or won’t they,” UNC is introducing Bill Belichick as the Tar Heels’ next head football coach Thursday in Chapel Hill.

Michael Lombardi, Belichick’s newly appointed general manager at UNC, was with Belichick as a front office executive in both Cleveland and New England.