Ex-North Carolina star Marquise Williams is skipping Tar Heels games as Bill Belichick enters second year

North Carolina shot is little than 2 weeks from opening summertime campy up of its 2nd play nether seven-time Super Bowl-winning manager Bill Belichick.

Belichick led the Tar Heels to a 4-8 grounds successful his archetypal play successful Chapel Hill, but a drawstring of off-field headlines mostly overshadowed the team.

The contention has carried into the offseason, seemingly prompting astatine slightest 1 salient UNC shot alumnus to forgo attending games successful idiosyncratic erstwhile the 2026 play begins this fall. 

Marquise Williams, who earned All-ACC honors during his four-year tally with UNC, announced his program to skip games this year.

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Marquise Williams of the North Carolina Tar Heels warms up earlier a crippled against the Clemson Tigers astatine Bank of America Stadium Dec. 5, 2015, successful Charlotte, N.C. (Grant Halverson/Getty Images)

"I volition not beryllium attending immoderate UNC shot games this year!" Williams wrote Thursday connected X. "The things I’m proceeding antheral I would person ne'er thought." He added a breached bosom emoji but did not elaborate connected precisely what enactment him off.

Williams inactive lives successful North Carolina and serves arsenic quarterbacks manager astatine Louisburg College. He ranks sixth connected UNC’s all-time passing yards list.

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While Williams’ nonstop reasoning remains unclear, overmuch of the chatter surrounding the programme has centered connected Belichick, 73, and his 24-year-old girlfriend, Jordon Hudson.

Marquise Williams of the North Carolina Tar Heels looks to walk against the North Carolina State Wolfpack during a crippled astatine Carter-Finley Stadium Nov. 28, 2015, successful Raleigh, N.C. (Grant Halverson/Getty Images)

During past year’s wide discussed "CBS News Sunday Morning" interview, Hudson faced accusations that she attempted to exert power during the erstwhile NFL coach’s sit-down. The interrogation was portion of a promotional circuit for Belichick's caller book, "The Art of Winning — Lessons from My Life successful Football."

The viral infinitesimal sparked questions astir Hudson’s engagement successful some his idiosyncratic and nonrecreational beingness and whether it could impact shot operations.

Head manager Bill Belichick of the North Carolina Tar Heels and Jordon Hudson earlier a crippled against the Richmond Spiders astatine Kenan Memorial Stadium Sept. 13, 2025, successful Chapel Hill, N.C. (Lance King/Getty Images)

North Carolina shot wide manager Michael Lombardi precocious addressed the scrutiny and extracurricular disapproval that surrounded the programme past season, defending the team’s effect amid what helium characterized arsenic inaccurate accounts.

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"All during those stormy times, each during erstwhile the vessel was getting capsized, erstwhile radical were attacking america with fake rumors and fake stories each implicit — nobody’s corrected them yet, but that’s OK, we recognize — our players hung together," Lombardi told the "Pat McAfee Show" past week.

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