CHARLOTTE — This time last year, Bill Belichick wasn’t sure what his depth chart would look like. He wasn’t sure how his quarterbacks, neither of whom participated in spring practice, would perform.But personally, he wasn’t sure if he’d like coaching college football.“I like coaching in college. I mean, really,” Belichick said on Friday. “I didn’t know whether I would or I wouldn’t, but I do. It’s been great.”He pointed to the NFL calendar, which only allows coaches nine weeks to work with players, aid their development and get to know them. In college, Belichick can spend January to August doing it, with only a few breaks in between.“It gives you more of an impact on the players. you get to know them better,” he said. “And I love coaching and I love helping them. I love the opportunity to do that and there’s just more of it here. And those guys are really receptive.”Belichick’s maiden voyage into college football’s choppy seas came with plenty of difficult moments. The Tar Heels stumbled to a 2-5 start and lost their first five games to power conference opponents, with the first three coming by an average of 29 points.But a pair of close losses that followed set the trajectory for the Tar Heels’ two ACC wins, against Syracuse and Stanford. UNC did lose its final three games to each of its in-state rivals — NC State, Wake Forest and Duke — for the first time since 1989. The Tar Heels also missed out on a bowl game for the first time since 2018.This year, Belichick feels his team is ahead of where it was a season ago heading into preseason camp.The enthusiasm peaked with the long-awaited season opener against TCU and reached a fever pitch when the Tar Heels scored on their opening drive, igniting fireworks over Kenan Stadium. TCU scored the game’s next 41 points. This year, one of Belichick’s tasks will be recapturing some of the excitement of the season’s opening weekend.