{"id":1939152,"date":"2026-10-20T06:29:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T10:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1939152"},"modified":"2026-10-20T06:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T10:42:16","slug":"what-is-belichickian-dont-ask-the-coach-to-define-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1939152","title":{"rendered":"What is Belichickian? Don\u2019t ask the coach to define it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL \u2014 Some have described the last two gritty Carolina road victories as \u201cBelichickian.\u201d The term entered the pro football vernacular during Bill Belichick\u2019s 24-year tenure as the New England Patriots coach because of his reputation for pushing the boundaries while technically following the rules. Just don\u2019t ask him what it means.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/10\/20\/what-is-belichickian-dont-ask-the-coach-to-define-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL \u2014 Some have described the last two gritty Carolina road victories as \u201cBelichickian.\u201d The term entered the pro football vernacular during Bill Belichick\u2019s 24-year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1939153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tarheeltribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/transparant-acc-standings-header-e1759162024244.png?resize=1140%2C154&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1939152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1939152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939154,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939152\/revisions\/1939154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1939153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1939152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1939152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1939152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}