sure is the most expensive. Between the millions he spent on her real estate to the bad PR he is getting with her as his PR person, they don't get more expensive...
How Jordon Hudson, 24, amassed $8 million real estate portfolio within months of meeting Bill Belichick
https://nypost.com/2025/04/30/us-news/jordon-hudson-amassed-8-million-real-estate-portfolio-within-months-of-meeting-bill-belichick/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
https://x.com/AndrewBrandt/status/1917643451790774731
Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
NEW: Bill Belichick rips CBS Sports for "selectively editing" his interview over the weekend to make his girlfriend Jordon Hudson look bad.
Belichick is suggesting that CBS set him up after previously agreed-upon conditions were "not honored."
"I agreed to speak with CBS Sunday Morning to promote my new book, 'The Art of Winning – Lessons from My Life in Football.' Prior to this interview, I clearly communicated with my publicist at Simon & Schuster that any promotional interviews I participated in would agree to focus solely on the contents of the book."
"Unfortunately, that expectation was not honored during the interview. I was surprised when unrelated topics were introduced, and I repeatedly expressed to the reporter, Tony Dokoupil, and the producers that I preferred to keep the conversation centered on the book."
"After this occurred several times, Jordon, with whom I share both a personal and professional relationship, stepped in to reiterate that point to help refocus the discussion."
"She was not deflecting any specific question or topic but simply doing her job to ensure the interview stayed on track. Some of the clips make it appear as though we were avoiding the question of how we met, but we have been open about the fact that Jordon and I met on a flight to Palm Beach in 2021."
"The final eight-minute segment does not reflect the productive 35-minute conversation we had, which covered a wide range of topics related to my career. Instead, it presents selectively edited clips and stills from just a few minutes of the interview to suggest a false narrative – that Jordon was attempting to control the conversation – which is simply not true."
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1917650947381289216
https://x.com/rydunleavy/status/1918046778378567810?s=46&t=1vcQIN8GqF5J2oLdxEVEJQ
UNC needs to give Belichick an ultimatum. Either get this whole situation under control, or let's part ways and we'll buy you out.
I am pretty confident that this nonsense is not what they thought they were signing up for.
Bill is living proof of the old saying - there's no no fool like an old fool
https://x.com/nfl_dovkleiman/status/1918069705371275766?s=46&t=1vcQIN8GqF5J2oLdxEVEJQ
I don't see what the hubbub is about. If Bill is OK with her, then that should be where it ends.
Quote from: T200 on May 06, 2025, 02:06:24 PMI don't see what the hubbub is about. If Bill is OK with her, then that should be where it ends.
The problem is that Bill has mixed his sex life with his professional life. At work, he makes his subordinates CC his girlfriend on emails. Hard Knocks dropped following NC because Bill's girlfriend demanded to be an executive producer. It's pretty embarrassing when his young girlfriend instructed Bill (on camera) on which questions he could and couldn't answer in an interview.
It seems Bill is allowing little Bill to ruin his professional reputation as he attempts to please his girlfriend/granddaughter stand-in.
I think quite a few people find the 50-year age difference a bit creepy on Bill's part and a bit gold-digging on Hudson's part.
Still, if Bill had kept his private life private, one could argue that who Bill chooses to date and to whom Bill chooses to give his money is his business. Only he didn't...
https://babylonbee.com/news/belichicks-girlfriend-leaves-him-for-lou-holtz
Quote from: MightyGiants on May 06, 2025, 02:20:28 PMThe problem is that Bill has mixed his sex life with his professional life. At work, he makes his subordinates CC his girlfriend on emails. Hard Knocks dropped following NC because Bill's girlfriend demanded to be an executive producer. It's pretty embarrassing when his young girlfriend instructed Bill (on camera) on which questions he could and couldn't answer in an interview.
It seems Bill is allowing little Bill to ruin his professional reputation as he attempts to please his girlfriend/granddaughter stand-in.
I think quite a few people find the 50-year age difference a bit creepy on Bill's part and a bit gold-digging on Hudson's part.
Still, if Bill had kept his private life private, one could argue that who Bill chooses to date and to whom Bill chooses to give his money is his business. Only he didn't...
Whether he mixes his business with his pleasure, it is still his business... peronally and professionally. Whether he makes his life private or public, it doesn't give anyone the right to reframe it the way they see fit.
Quote from: T200 on May 06, 2025, 03:40:41 PMWhether he mixes his business with his pleasure, it is still his business... peronally and professionally. Whether he makes his life private or public, it doesn't give anyone the right to reframe it the way they see fit.
From what I hear, Bill's employer is less than happy with all of this. Do you think all these stories will impact Bill's desired return to the NFL?
Quote from: T200 on May 06, 2025, 03:40:41 PMWhether he mixes his business with his pleasure, it is still his business... personally and professionally. Whether he makes his life private or public, it doesn't give anyone the right to reframe it the way they see fit.
I wonder how the pearl clutching general public would feel if someone crawled up their ass with a microscope and criticized their lifestyle with righteous indignation?
Quote from: MightyGiants on May 06, 2025, 03:44:57 PMFrom what I hear, Bill's employer is less than happy with all of this. Do you think all these stories will impact Bill's desired return to the NFL?
Bill's employer can be as unhappy as he wants to be. Does it affect Bill's ability to do the job he was hired for?
If there is an NFL owner that wants to hire Bill and Bill wants to work for that owner and franchise, it will happen.
The interviewer, Tony Dokoupil, is a douche bag for asking questions that Bill already stated were not up for discussion. And then, CBS decides to frame the footage to make it look like something it wasn't. They're all POSs.
Quote from: T200 on May 06, 2025, 04:07:15 PMBill's employer can be as unhappy as he wants to be. Does it affect Bill's ability to do the job he was hired for?
It might well affect it, yes. His insistence that this 24 year old girlfriend with zero football background be copied on all work-related email correspondence to him is totally awkward and inappropriate, and it might well inhibit his colleagues from communicating him in the manner that they otherwise would if it were the appropriate audience. Her being CCd on all these emails would be particularly disruptive if she herself chimed in in email dialogues that she shouldn't even be reading in the first place, let alone sending emails in. I don't know if she did the latter, but hjust her being included in those chains is totally inappropriate and should have never happened in the first place. I think it's very likely it had an impact on Bill's ability to do his job to the best of his ability, which includes making his colleagues comfortable communicating freely with him.
Then the fact that she runs around the field during practices (recorded on tape) could be seen to be a significant distraction, to say the absolute least.
Finally, attracting a media circus around his personal life, which he has allowed to be not only very public but also to be pretty much controlled by his girlfriend is going to draw a ton of extra non-football related media attention to him, which can easily impact his ability to do his job.
I actually view it as almost a given that all of this is impacting his ability to do his job to the best of his ability.
By the way, I have no interest in judging Belichick for whom he chooses to date or what he does in his private life. That's entirely his business. But if he wants to be the head coach of a major football program, his private life should be exactly that: private.
Quote from: DaveBrown74 on May 06, 2025, 05:36:57 PMIt might well affect it, yes. His insistence that this 24 year old girlfriend with zero football background be copied on all work-related email correspondence to him is totally awkward and inappropriate, and it might well inhibit his colleagues from communicating him in the manner that they otherwise would if it were the appropriate audience. Her being CCd on all these emails would be particularly disruptive if she herself chimed in in email dialogues that she shouldn't even be reading in the first place, let alone sending emails in. I don't know if she did the latter, but hjust her being included in those chains is totally inappropriate and should have never happened in the first place. I think it's very likely it had an impact on Bill's ability to do his job to the best of his ability, which includes making his colleagues comfortable communicating freely with him.
Then the fact that she runs around the field during practices (recorded on tape) could be seen to be a significant distraction, to say the absolute least.
Finally, attracting a media circus around his personal life, which he has allowed to be not only very public but also to be pretty much controlled by his girlfriend is going to draw a ton of extra non-football related media attention to him, which can easily impact his ability to do his job.
I actually view it as almost a given that all of this is impacting his ability to do his job to the best of his ability.
By the way, I have no interest in judging Belichick for whom he chooses to date or what he does in his private life. That's entirely his business. But if he wants to be the head coach of a major football program, his private life should be exactly that: private.
Points taken.
Still, we don't know to what degree he could be affected. And it's still between him and his employer.
The other thing we don't know is what capacity she's working for him professionally and what he's asked her to do.
Quote from: T200 on May 06, 2025, 07:49:56 PMPoints taken.
Still, we don't know to what degree he could be affected. And it's still between him and his employer.
The other thing we don't know is what capacity she's working for him professionally and what he's asked her to do.
Tim,
As you are aware, I had been supportive of the idea of the Giants bringing in Bill Belichick. Now, I am glad I didn't get my way, as I don't want him anywhere near the Giants. In my opinion, he is embarrassing himself and destroying his legacy.
Quote from: MightyGiants on May 07, 2025, 08:31:33 AMTim,
As you are aware, I had been supportive of the idea of the Giants bringing in Bill Belichick. Now, I am glad I didn't get my way, as I don't want him anywhere near the Giants. In my opinion, he is embarrassing himself and destroying his legacy.
It's OK to have an opinion, as he is a public figure and he's used to being criticized.
But my issue with all of this is making things appear to be something that's far from the truth.
Personally, I don't care one way or the other. His choices don't affect me and he's committed no crimes.
Enjoy your life, Bill.
Bill Belichick goes on the offensive to clean up his Jordon Hudson P.R. mess
By
Mike Florio
Published May 18, 2025 10:43 AM
Three weeks ago today, North Carolina coach Bill Belichick turned the football world upside down with a stunning CBS interview during which: (1) he wore a really old football jersey with a hole in the neck; and (2) his 24-year-old (and possibly 23-year-old) girlfriend/handler/publicist Jordon Hudson instructed him not to answer the hard-hitting question of how they met and reportedly created other disruptions, including reportedly storming off the set.
It created a storm of scrutiny for Belichick, turning the notoriously team-focused coach into the one thing he hated most on any football team: A distraction.
Belichick hasn't just been a distraction to his North Carolina football. He's been a MASSIVE distraction.
As former Patriots quarterback Cam Newton recently observed, "You can't name me three players on North Carolina's roster right now besides Jordon Hudson."
Now, UNC has hired veteran sports P.R. executive Brandon Faber, and the effort to both clean up the mess while also actively promoting Belichick's book has commenced. He has submitted to several interviews this week, from the biggest of networks to the smallest of podcasts.
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Belichick's most significant interview yet happened not with a former on-field nemesis (ABC's Michael Strahan) but with former Inside the NFL colleague Ryan Clark. Appearing on Clark's The Pivot Podcast, Belichick offered up his version of Hudson's involvement with his current professional life in a setting that guaranteed no follow-up questions pressing him on potential factual inconsistencies or seeking clarification or elaboration.
Basically, in a one-on-one with Clark before his co-hosts, Fred Taylor and Channing Crowder, joined the interview, Belichick was able to articulate and promulgate the strategically concocted spin on Belichick's P.R. tailspin.
While we have no issue with someone doing a favor to a friend and/or former colleague, it's fair game to point out that this is exactly what happened. Indeed, three weeks after Tony Dokoupil of CBS tried to serve up softballs, Clark put his Hudson-related questions for Belichick on a T-ball.
The interview started with Clark asking Belichick why it was important to name Hudson in the "acknowledgments" section of the book. He explained that she had ideas for the book, such as addressing Tom Brady on page 199 (since he was the 199th pick in the draft) and Lawrence Taylor on page 56 (since he wore the number Abdul Carter recently tried to get permission to wear). Belichick also said that he tapped into the 24-year-old's (possibly 23-year-old's) extensive business acumen to dumb down the football jargon. (Typically, books published by major houses like Simon & Schuster will assign a specific editor who is on the payroll to, you know, "do your job.")
It was apparently no coincidence that Clark started things off with a question about the reason for mentioning her in the book. Like a good lawyer who knows the answer to every question he asks, Clark deftly led Belichick into the broader point to be made, as part of Belichick's attack on the CBS interview.
"The first thing you did was the CBS interview," Clark said. "That question wasn't asked about Jordon in that interview?"
"It was asked," Belichick said. "No, it was asked. They asked about her — the same, similar question that you asked about her acknowledgement in the book. And I explained that in the tribute pages that she did, but that wasn't shown."
(Hey, CBS, how about releasing the full interview now? Belichick is basically daring you to do it.)
Next, Clark asked a question that tried to turn the "distraction" angle on its head. Basically, the argument is that Hudson isn't a distraction; she's there to help keep Belichick stay focused on football and not be distracted.
"A lot of what we got from that [CBS interview] was obviously, you know, some of the things saying that she interrupted and, you know, didn't necessarily cooperate through that process," Clark said. "In a lot of what you do, and I'm sure, you know, in part of this book, it's maybe spoken about, it's 'don't be a distraction,' right? And there are former players of yours and media members who are saying, because of your current relationship, you may be or may have become that. How are you staying focused on football as the main thing to make sure that that's not something that's happening?"
"Yeah, that's what I do, is I stay focused on football and some of the other opportunities that come along, you know, Jordan looks at those and, you know, can dig into them a little bit deeper," Belichick said. "But, really, what she does helps me spend my time on football, and that's what's important to me."
Clark then focused on the one question that has never been fully answered, by Belichick or anyone: "For specifics for people, because I believe that this is definitely one of those questions that are out there, and people are making up their own stories, creating their own narrative. What does Jordan actually do for you that allows you to do your job? What are her actual job responsibilities?"
"Well, nothing with North Carolina," Belichick said. "That would be number one. It would be personal opportunities. Could be a speaking thing, it could be a, you know, appearance on this or talk about that or somebody wants whatever happens to be — an autograph or that type of thing. And so, you know, she would kind of help organize that for me.
"And one of the first things that came out was when North Carolina sent me emails saying, like, 'These people want to talk to you, these people want to talk to you, these people want to talk to you, these people want to talk to you.' I sent back an email saying, 'Can you please copy Jordan on these requests?' Right? So that, you know, she could at least, like, filter through them, because there was nobody. We didn't have a sports information guy. That was taken because all the emails are shared in publicly — that was taken as Jordan's running the sports information department. And that also led to the narrative, which is, like, totally — she's not doing it. I mean, there was nobody to help me sort them out, so I was asking her to do that."
Hang on, Billy Boy. We need to press pause at this point. Did you catch what he's doing? He's throwing North Carolina under the bus for not having a proper mechanism in place to handle P.R. for the football operation.
"There was nobody," Belichick said. "We didn't have a sports information guy."
That's simply not true. Entering the 2024 season, UNC had two employees assigned to football communications: (1) Jeremy Sharpe, the "Assistant AD, Football Communications & Branding"; and (2) Tyler Timm, the "Associate Director (Secondary Football Contact)."
Sharpe's online bio is still active. His title suggests that he was reassigned to "Women's Soccer, Swimming & Diving, Women's Lacrosse." The body of the bio has not yet been revised to show he's no longer working for the football organization.
"Sharpe serves as the primary media relations contact for Carolina football and head coach Mack Brown, while overseeing all external branding initiatives for the program," the bio explains. "He also oversees all football social media and serves as the primary liaison between the football program and Go Heels Productions and Creative Services, Athletic Communications, Athletics Marketing and other supporting units."
So one of two things happened when Mack Brown was fired and Belichick was hired. Either UNC affirmatively took Sharpe out of a role he held for six years and left Belichick with no P.R. representative at all, or Belichick himself decided it was better to have no one (and in turn to rely on his 24/23-year-old girlfriend) than it was to have Sharpe. Our guess is that it was Option No. 2 (which would put the blame on him), and that Belichick is now trying to make it look like it was Option No. 1 (which puts the blame on the program).
The overriding narrative from Belichick is that Jordon has nothing to do with football, with the inescapable implication being that she never did.
That's also not true. The emails obtained through public records requests (since UNC is a public organization) show that she was involved in advising staff on how to properly downplay the role of nepotism in the hiring Belichick's son, Steve, to serve as defensive coordinator, and in pushing back against the organization's failure to scrub from its website comments that were critical of Belichick. (One specific gripe was that one commenter called him a "predator.")
Also, Hudson was on the field during the final spring practice. And not with a friends-and-family sideline pass. She was working. As previously noted, Brandon Faber can be seen in foreground of the video. So, by the end of spring practice, Belichick had an outside P.R. person in the building (even if he hadn't been officially "hired") and Hudson was still doing football stuff.
All of this means one thing. Every time Belichick says that Hudson has nothing to do with football, in a broad, sweepingly dismissive manner that suggests she never had anything to do with football, he's being disingenuous at best. At worst, he's lying through the hole in his shirt.
He probably thinks the interview with Clark made things better. To those who haven't delved into the nooks and crannies of the story, maybe it will — especially since many in the media will simply recite Belichick's self-serving quotes without scrutiny or analysis.
Still, the folks at UNC can't be thrilled about the unmistakable impression that Belichick is blaming Hudson's non-employment employment by the football program on a not-so-subtle claim that North Carolina failed to provide the most basic and fundamental level of competence and support to the greatest coach of all time.
Meanwhile, June 1 is only two weeks away.
https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/bill-belichick-goes-on-the-offensive-to-clean-up-his-jordon-hudson-p-r-mess