The Atlantic Coast Conference has three former NFL head coaches leading its football programs this fall for the most of any league.

While Bill Belichick becoming the head coach of North Carolina’s football team is shocking enough, something even more shocking might come amidst. According to

Were you waiting for a hoodwinked boyfriend to show up at ACC media days? Nothing to see here. Bill Belichick is just North Carolina's football coach.

Collins has also crossed paths with South Carolina defensive coordinator Clayton White, who worked as Western Carolina’s defensive backs coach in 2004 and 2005 while Collins was the DC. The addition of Collins continues a now years-long trend of Beamer finding a big-name head coach out of a job and finding a place for them at South Carolina.

The only missing touches were walk-up music — think Springsteen or Bon Jovi — followed by tuxedoed ring announcer Michael Buffer commanding the packed house: “LET’S GET READY TO RUMBLE!”

It's fair to wonder how long it's been since the University of North Carolina was the talk of the ACC football world.

Everywhere Bill Belichick went on Thursday, a cascade of cameras and iPhones followed, eventually leading into a jam-packed ballroom for his first big ACC Kickoff press conference.

Last football season was the ACC’s first with 17 teams and, therefore, conference media’s crack at projecting the order of finish for such an oversized membership. We did not fare well.