{"id":1943175,"date":"2026-11-09T14:52:32","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T19:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1943175"},"modified":"2026-11-09T16:23:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T21:23:44","slug":"from-brian-belichick-in-booth-to-mcdonald-how-unc-makes-defensive-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1943175","title":{"rendered":"From Brian Belichick in booth to McDonald: How UNC makes defensive calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Steve Belichick no longer North Carolina\u2019s defensive coordinator, the question of who makes the defensive calls on Saturdays has a straightforward answer, even if the process behind it is shared. Defensive backs and safeties coach Brian Belichick sends the call in, and linebacker Derek McDonald, who wears the green dot, relays it to the defense on the field.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/11\/09\/from-brian-belichick-in-booth-to-mcdonald-how-unc-makes-defensive-calls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Steve Belichick no longer North Carolina\u2019s defensive coordinator, the question of who makes the defensive calls on Saturdays has a straightforward answer, even if the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1943175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943175","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=1943175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1943176,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943175\/revisions\/1943176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1943175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1943175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1943175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}