For the first time as a Tar Heel, Gio Lopez discussed why he joined UNC football and the chance to be Bill Belichick's starting quarterback.

A day after going through the media wringer at ACC kickoff, the new North Carolina coach got a taste of what goes into college-football coaching at the annual Pigskin Preview luncheon.

Belichick avoided the rows of radio reporters in the hotel lobby and spent much of the morning in a hallway outside the green room for players and coaches, down the hall from private rooms for interviews with ESPN.com, SiriusXM and the ACC Digital Network.