Bill Belichick reveals what he told Wake Forest coach during icy postgame handshake

Bill Belichick had a one-word mentation for his icy enactment with Wake Forest caput manager Jake Dickert pursuing North Carolina’s 28-12 nonaccomplishment to the Demon Deacons implicit the weekend.

The acold enactment from Belichick followed a brutal nonaccomplishment successful which the Tar Heels failed to find the extremity portion successful each 4 quarters and ended with a last 2-yard, fourth-down touchdown from Robby Ashford with conscionable 22 seconds connected the clock.

North Carolina caput manager Bill Belichick walks disconnected the tract aft an NCAA assemblage shot crippled against Syracuse. The crippled took spot successful Syracuse, New York, connected Oct. 31, 2025. (Adrian Kraus/AP Photo)

"We conscionable didn’t person a bully nighttime and it surely wasn’t capable here," Belichick said plainly during the postgame presser. "We’ll conscionable get backmost to enactment this week and spot if we tin get backmost connected track. We’re a amended squad than we were tonight. We conscionable weren’t precise good."

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But it was Belichick’s postgame handshake – oregon deficiency thereof – with Dickert that drew dense criticism.

Video shared connected societal media showed Dickert moving towards midfield. As helium neared the legendary NFL coach, Dickert removed his chapeau to shingle hands with Belichick, who seemingly rushed past him into the locker room.

Referee Anthony Maynor and caput manager Jake Dickert of the Wake Forest Demon Deacons ticker a replay reappraisal successful the 2nd fractional during a crippled against the Virginia Cavaliers astatine Scott Stadium successful Charlottesville, Virginia, connected Nov. 8, 2025. (Ryan M. Kelly/Getty Images)

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"This is an atrocious look for Bill Belichick," 1 idiosyncratic wrote connected societal media. "When you inhabit the abstraction Bill does, you should admit what these games mean to opposing coaches."

"Not precise sportsman like," different added.

When questioned astir the handshake aft the crippled and what was said betwixt the 2 coaches, Belichick simply replied, "Congratulations."

Head manager Bill Belichick of the North Carolina Tar Heels looks connected during the archetypal fractional of a shot crippled against the Wake Forest Demon Deacons astatine Allegacy Federal Credit Union Stadium successful Winston-Salem, North Carolina, connected Nov. 15, 2025. (David Jensen/Getty Images)

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North Carolina dropped to 4-6 arsenic it faces a must-win concern for vessel eligibility erstwhile it hosts Duke connected Saturday.

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