UNC's relationship with Bill Belichick, Jordon Hudson has a $1 million deadline looming

Bill Belichick's relationship with the University of North Carolina has an escape route.

Amid pretty consistent drama involving Belichick and his 24-year old girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, there's one way that things could change drastically.

Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio laid out the scenario on Saturday morning.

The key: On June 1, the buyout on Belichick's UNC contract drops from $10 million to $1 million.

"Initially, that reduction was viewed as a quick and easy path for Belichick to get back to the NFL," Florio writes. "Now, it becomes Belichick’s potential escape hatch from what may have become a bad relationship."

On Friday, different reports went back and forth on whether Hudson was banned from the UNC facility.

"Setting aside whatever cracks in the foundation may have previously existed, Friday could be the day when it all came crashing down," Florio wrote. "Pablo Torre’s reporting, which basically stands for the idea that Belichick was told his 24-year-old girlfriend can’t work for the football program any longer, could be the thing that gets her to do something like what she reportedly did at his recent CBS interview."

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What does Florio think could happen? Hudson could "stand up, proclaim, 'Bill, we're leaving,' and storm out," he writes.

Florio writes that the reduced buyout could also give Belichick leverage.

"If UNC makes demands he doesn’t like, he can remind them that all he has to do is write a check and he’s gone," Florio writes.

He concluded his report: "There’s a chance that, at this point, the school might welcome that. Maybe they’d even tell him to keep his $1 million. Maybe, at some point, they’d even give him $1 million or more to go."

This definitely isn't how the Tar Heels pictured this hire going.

It might still work out, but the road so far has been a bumpy one, and football games are still three months away.

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