On Friday morning, North Carolina issued a statement in response to a report that Bill Belichick’s 24-year-old girlfriend/handler/publicist has been banned from the football facility.

Speaking to ESPN’s Christine Williamson in Florida, Belichick discussed the current state of the Tar Heels program and his new role of leading a college football team for the first time in his long coaching career.

The Tar Heels head coach and six-time Super Bowl champion, 73, has faced questions about his 24-year-old girlfriend's involvement with the program.

In his capacity as head coach of the North Carolina football program, Bill Belichick has had two press conferences: one when he was hired, and one at the start of spring practice.

Jordon Hudson, the girlfriend of 73-year-old football coach Bill Belichick, has been accused of intentionally lying about how old she is

PORTLAND - Bill Belichick was in the front row here in a hotel ballroom at the Holiday Inn by the Bay Saturday evening as his girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, strutted across a stage wearing a sea-green two-piece bathing suit and tall, shimmery heels.