Bill Belichick’s time at North Carolina might already be coming to a close. 

UNC has reportedly had "potential exit strategy discussions" on Tuesday, per 247 Sports. This comes as Belichick’s Tar Heels are 2-3 through their first five games of his inaugural season as a college head coach. 

North Carolina has reportedly had "preliminary conversations" about firing Belichick, which would be a whopping $20 million buyout as part of his contract. However, 247 Sports points out that an alleged rules violation could help the program either eliminate or reduce the buyout. 

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While the university is having the conversation, Belichick is reportedly thinking about it as well. 

Belichick has "discussed buyout options with North Carolina’s hierarchy," where he has "signaled a willingness to trigger his own $1 million buyout if he can find a soft landing with another team or in media," according to college football journalist Ollie Connolly.

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These rumors come as UNC is in the midst of its bye week, and it’s certainly not the way Belichick or anyone envisioned his jump into college football after his illustrious NFL coaching career. 

But while the product on the field hasn’t been great, there’s been some drama off it as well. Cornerbacks coach Armond Hawkins was suspended for allegedly giving extra benefits to players, which includes sideline passes for family members. 

There was also a lawsuit filed in North Carolina that alleges the university board hired Belichick illegally. 

And now, things have gotten so bad for the Tar Heels that the Hulu docuseries that was to follow around Belichick through his college football journey was reportedly scrapped due to the poor start. The project had only been announced in August, but the plug has been pulled.

Belichick’s latest loss was a blowout at the hands of Clemson at home, 38-10, where the Tigers put up 28 points in the first quarter and coasted to victory from there. They owned a 35-3 lead at halftime, which ultimately led Dabo Swinney to pull some starters down the stretch. 

With reported dysfunction in Belichick’s program, there is also his 24-year-old girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, whose presence was criticized before he even made his debut in a 48-10 blowout loss to TCU. 

Hudson has been regularly seen on the sideline before games, speaking with Belichick and even ACC commissioner Jim Phillips this past week. 

For now, Belichick will use the bye week to gear up for the Tar Heels’ next game against the California Golden Bears on Oct. 17. But perhaps his days as the leader in Chapel Hill could be coming to an end. 

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This isn’t a ripped-from-the-headlines new Netflix series. This really happened in a quiet neighborhood called Litchfield Park that’s about a 20-minute drive from Phoenix.

Christina Chapman, 50, looked like your average middle-aged suburban woman. But inside her humble home? A secret cyber ops center built to help North Korean IT workers buy equipment and tools for their military by infiltrating hundreds of U.S. companies. 

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That picture above was just a small part of her setup.

North Korean workers aren’t browsing LinkedIn or applying at Google, Amazon and Meta. They can’t. Sanctions block them from working for American companies, at least legally. So what do they do? 

They steal real Americans’ identities, including names, birth dates, Social Security numbers and more. Then, they use them to pose as remote IT workers, slipping into U.S. companies under anyone’s radar.

But when companies send out laptops and phones to their "remote new hires"? Those devices can’t exactly be shipped to Pyongyang.

Over the course of three years, Christina turned her suburban home into a covert operations hub for North Korea’s elite cybercriminals.

She received more than 100 laptops and smartphones shipped from companies all across the U.S. These weren’t no-name startups. We’re talking major American banks, top-tier tech firms and at least one U.S. government contractor. 

All thought they were hiring remote U.S.-based workers. They had no idea they were actually onboarding North Korean operatives.

Once the gear arrived, Chapman connected the devices to VPNs, remote desktop tools like AnyDesk and Chrome Remote Desktop, and even rigged up voice-changing software. 

The goal? To make it seem like the North Koreans were logging in from inside the United States. Chapman also shipped 49 laptops and other devices supplied by U.S. companies to locations overseas, including multiple shipments to a city in China on the border with North Korea.

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These fake employees "showed up" every day, submitting code, answering emails, taking meetings, all from halfway around the world. In reality, they were siphoning U.S. tech and cash straight into Kim Jong Un’s regime.

When HR teams requested video verification, Chapman didn’t blink. 

She jumped on camera herself, sometimes in costume, pretending to be the person in the résumé. She ran the whole operation like a talent agency for cybercriminals, staging fake job interviews, coaching the operatives on what to say and even laundering their salaries through U.S. banks.

Her take? At least $800,000, paid as "service fees."

The total haul for North Korea? Over $17 million in stolen salaries, according to the FBI, which called the scheme a national security threat. Chapman called it "helping her friends." Really.

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Eventually, the scam began to unravel. Investigators noticed odd patterns like dozens and dozens of remote hires all listing the same Arizona address, or company systems being accessed from countries the workers supposedly had never visited.

Chapman was arrested and sentenced in July 2025 to 102 months in federal prison.

And the wildest part? She did it all from her living room. Talk about working from home! 

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