The Rubicon has been crossed:

Fucking Belichick's UNC GM talking shit about my man:

New North Carolina football general manager and former Raiders and Browns executive Mike Lombardi, who has joined his old pal Bill Belichick with the Tar Heels, referenced UM in discussing the importance of the GM job in the modern era of college football. “That job will entail player evaluations, developing a grading system, building a team around what you want to become,” Lombardi said. “That’s so important, you know. In college you have all these first-round picks. Well, you still got to build a team. I mean, Mario Cristobal has been wonderful in recruiting, but they haven’t been able to get to the final 12. You got to build a full team, it’s not about winning the recruiting battle. It’s about making the team the best it can be. So, for me that’s the job.” UM’s Dennis Smith, the school’s executive director of football, responded on X: “Mike Lombardi — you on the job for 3 days and you firing stray bullets! We got our head coaches back! Join the list!” Former Hurricanes great Alonzo Highsmith served as UM’s GM before leaving for a front-office job with the New England Patriots in Februrary. The Canes rely on coaches and several front-office staffers for evaluations of players.

Read more at:

https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/college/acc/university-of-miami/article297273479.html#storylink=cpy

I do declare that UNC could be a program under the right guy. For whatever reason, it's not hard to recruit there despite there being like zero tradition. They have several built-in advantages, and for the academis prowess crowd, UNC is a tippy top public U and I believe is the oldest public university in the country.

This is war.