He, along with an advisory committee, made the decision to hire the polarizing Belichick in December with hopes to revive the program which hasn’t won a bowl game since 2019. Belichick was reportedly not Cunningham’s “preferred target” in the coaching search,

Steve Newmark, who has been the president of RFK Racing since 2010, will be the new athletic director at the University of North Carolina when Bill Belichick is in his second year