University of North Carolina again had to address coach Bill Belichick’s relationship with his 24-year-old girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, on Friday after a new report stated Hudson had been banned from the Tar Heels’ football facility.
‘While Jordon Hudson is not an employee at the University or Carolina Athletics, she is welcome to the Carolina Football facilities,’ the school said in a statement issued to reporters. ‘Jordon will continue to manage all activities related to Coach Belichick’s personal brand outside of his responsibilities for Carolina Football and the University.”
The denial comes on the heels of the latest episode of ‘Pablo Torre Finds Out,’ a national podcast from Meadowlark Media featuring former ESPN host Pablo Torre. The show focused on Belichick and Hudson and Torre cited two North Carolina athletic department sources when he reported Hudson was no longer allowed in the football building or on the team’s practice field.
Torre also reported, citing one Belichick family source, there is ‘deep worry about how detrimental Hudson can be’ for Belichick’s reputation.
The six-time Super Bowl-winning coach already had to issue a statement earlier this month in the aftermath of a ‘CBS Sunday Morning’ interview that went awry due to Hudson’s involvement.
The eight-minute CBS segment that originally aired on April 27 included a tense moment in which Hudson shut down a question asked to Belichick by reporter Tony Dokoupil about how he and Hudson had met. Hudson also stopped Dokoupil’s line of questioning several other times, according to CBS. She later posted a screenshot of emails sent by Belichick following the interview (accompanied by Taylor Swift’s ‘Look what you made me do’) in which he criticized how CBS edited the segment and the direction being taken in the promotion of his new book.
Belichick emphasized Hudson only became involved once Dokoupil ignored Belichick’s repeated requests to keep the conversation centered on the new book.
‘After this occurred several times, Jordon, with whom I share both a personal and professional relationship, stepped in to reiterate that point to help refocus the discussion,’ Belichick said in his statement. ‘She was not deflecting any specific question or topic but simply doing her job to ensure the interview stayed on track. Some of the clips make it appear as though we were avoiding the question of how we met …
‘The final eight-minute segment does not reflect the productive 35-minute conversation we had, which covered a wide range of topics related to my career,’ Belichick continued. ‘Instead, it presents selectively edited clips and stills from just a few minutes of his interview to suggest a false narrative – that Jordon was attempting to control the conversation – which is simply not true.’
CBS pushed back in its own statement about Belichick’s claim that he agreed to the interview under the auspices that questions would be focused only on his book. ‘When we agreed to speak with Mr. Belichick, it was for a wide-ranging interview,’ a CBS News spokesperson said. ‘There were no preconditions or limitations to this conversation.’
Belichick is the oldest active coach in FBS college football at 73 years old entering his first season at North Carolina. The Tar Heels open their 2025 schedule on Monday, Sept. 1 at 7:30 p.m. ET at Kenan Stadium against the Big 12’s TCU.