Bill Belichick: Acclimation, Fall Camp and Off-Season

"It's almost football season here. Excited to get started.

These guys have worked really hard, the staff and the players in terms of the off -season program, their conditioning and all that. We're excited to get out on the field.

We've got a couple days here of acclimation, so it'll be not our full training camp practices yet, but it's just part of the process. Give everybody a good opportunity to get acclimated, both on the field and with their teammates, communication, adjustments, things like that.

But we have a lot of new players, a little over 40 from the spring and 70 guys that weren't on last year's team. So it's a lot of new people to get up to speed, again, in terms of communication, just kind of the way we practice, techniques, things like that. But Coach has done a good job of closing that gap. And so we're excited to get out on our field and see it start coming together.

So that process, as I said, will start today and we'll build through the acclimation period and then really get rolling into it next week. But I think these steps are the ones that obviously we need to take and that are required, and so we'll be in compliance with them."

Acclimation is a key point of emphasis by Coach Belichick, and rightfully so. The new roster, filled with numerous faces and names, is experiencing UNC football for the first time. And with anticipation continuing to settle in for the 73-year-old head coach and his roster, the lights only get brighter and brighter as the days conclude, one after the other.

The addition of the spring players and the 70 who were not on the team last season will require everyone, including coaches, to ensure they are on the same page. The detail Coach Belichick pays attention to is fulfilling, with little room for error, but the aftermath of each game during this fall will tell more of the story beyond the practice field.