Maybe it was never supposed to be. After weeks of talks between the University of North CarolinaBill Belichick football coach and Nfl Films, the Tar Heels will not be the subject of the Hard Knocks “HBO” off -season, said sports sources.
“”Nfl The films have had discussions with coach Belichick and UNC about the appearance on Stroke This off-season but could not reach an agreement, “a spokesman for NFL Media, who includes NFL films on Tuesday.
As CBS Sports reported it at the end of last week, All the parties estimated that they were close to an agreement. But a contract had not yet been struck, although the belief was that they would end up arriving. The sources say that creative control was at the center of the parties incapable of reaching an agreement.
Given the place where we are in the NFL calendar, as well as the fact that the NFL films had turned to a college program for the first time, it is unlikely that NFL team will participate in the intersaison edition of the series.
There were no takers in the NFL after last year’s inaugural race with the New York Giants before what turned into a disastrous season of 3-14. The NFL free agency begins on March 12, which does not give enough time to the group to find a team that would open its doors for the most crucial part of the out -of -season series.
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An announcement concerning the teams participating in the training camp and / or in the first season “Hard Knocks” could be revealed from annual League meetings in early April.
Sources have told CBS Sports that there was still a desire in the UNC football program to make a sort of series of all accessible behind the scenes with a group of media. But a source asked why the UNC would not want prestige and the scope of HBO and NFL films, which work with Belichick for decades.
Sources of the UNC had spotted employees of NFL films in the establishment in recent weeks, and there was excitement in the football program and the university on the exhibition that the Belichick team would receive from the series.
“There are a lot of conversations right now on (” Hard Knocks “),” the director general of UNC Michael Lombardi said to Pat McAfee last week. “We had offers. I don’t think nothing is official or signed yet.
“Bill spoke to different people who contacted us all here and sorted. I do not think it is official. If we do it, the idea is to let people examine what we are doing, take a look at the 33rd NFL team and to see how we build this program and what we are trying to accomplish. It will give a precise representation.”
The UNC begins spring football training on Tuesday.