The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has placed Michael Lombardi, normal supervisor for the UNC football program, on paid administrative leave “effective immediately.”
UNC’s vice chancellor Dean Stoyer didn’t share the explanation in Monday’s announcement however launched the next assertion:
“As is commonplace process with
personnel issues, management, workers, and student-athletes are prohibited from
addressing this subject additional, and has no reflection on the deserves.”
Lombardi earned $1.5 million in 2025, according to a salary database of UNC System employees.
WRAL beforehand reported that Lombardi was one of head coach Bill Belichick’s first hires, working with him at NFL stops in Cleveland and New England. Lombardi additionally labored within the entrance places of work for San Francisco, Philadelphia, Oakland and Denver over greater than 30 years within the NFL. He served because the recruiting coordinator at UNLV within the early Nineteen Eighties, his solely earlier school expertise.
WRAL News is working to be taught why Lombardi was placed on paid leave.
