'No air': Bill Belichick's former UNC QB reveals what it was really like to play at North Carolina
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This isn't one of those reviews that Bill Belichick will show to potential UNC football recruits.
Nope, when Gio Lopez got a chance to talk about what it was like to play at North Carolina for the legendary coach, he didn't hold back.
Lopez, the lefty quarterback who has since transferred to Wake Forest, didn't sound like he enjoyed his time with the Tar Heels very much.
“Back at the other school, it felt like there’s no air,” Lopez told SI.com's Logan Lazarczyk. “Here, it’s fun again. They’re moving us in the right direction, energized, and guys are enjoying football. It’s like fresh air. I’d never had to respond to tough situations like that on that loud of a scale.”
"No air" vs. "fresh air" is quite the poetic work from Lopez, and it also tells quite the story.
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Lopez came to UNC in a very unprecedented situation. It was Belichick's first season as a college head coach, and Lopez was his first college starting QB.
“It was more like work,” Lopez told SI.com. “After that first game, it felt like getting through the day. You don’t want to live like that, where you’re up at night thinking about the next day.”
The season ahead will surely reveal more about whether Lopez simply wasn't cut out to be an ACC quarterback or whether the environment with Belichick was too much to handle.
Disappointingly for Lopez, Wake Forest doesn't have UNC on the schedule this season.
Still, the southpaw will be trying to prove what he can do, and he'll be doing it in a place where he actually feels like he can breathe.