Bill Belichick Explained How Being Fired By Lou Holtz Actually Helped His Career

We get ti read a lot about Patriots head coach Bill Belichick and his professional career.

Before being a Super Bowl winner with the New England Patriots and before becoming an established coach in the league, Bill Belichick was actually a college graduate, and his future was more like a mystery.

In Friday’s press conference, the head coach talked about the first job he got after being a graduate in 1975.

“When I was in college, I was going to go with Coach [Lou] Holtz to North Carolina State to be a graduate assistant down there. They hired me, then he fired me, and I ended up at Baltimore with Coach Marchibroda,” Belichick said.

“Holtz later reported that the opening he’d reserved for Bill was closed by new budget realities under Title IX legislation that mandated increased funding for women’s sports,” Ian O’Connor explained in his Belichick biography.
The Patriots head coach ended up in Baltimore with Marchibroda.

“Things worked out, but I guess that was kind of the point, in college where I saw that as furthering my — you know, didn’t really have the money to go to graduate school, but the combination of the graduate assistantship and all that looked like a good route to take. And so that’s kind of the track I was on and then ended up at Baltimore, for no money but for a great experience, which was worth way more than whatever they could have been paying me — which I wasn’t worth anything, so I wasn’t making anything,” Belichick said.

When asked to summarize the beginning of his professional career, Belichick said, “Sometimes it’s just the ball bounces your way, I guess,” the head coach said.

Today, Belichick is one of the greatest head coaches in the league. He is one of the reasons Patriots have won their Super Bowls.

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