North Carolina football coach Bill Belichick’s 24-year-old girlfriend Jordon Hudson is being blamed for a top wrestler’s enrolment at another school.

In a conversation with Hurrdat Sports, Mark Manning, the wrestling coach at Nebraska, mentioned that A.J. Ferrari, a recruit for the Cornhuskers wrestling team, had initially committed to UNC but something related to Hudson caused the commitment to fall through.

The specifics of the allegation remain unclear but appear to involve a sexual battery claim Ferrari faced in August of 2022 that was later dropped in October of 2023. Ferrari has maintained his innocence and his lawyer Derek Chance previously declared the allegations to be false, according to the Daily Tar Heel. 

‘Rob Koll… the North Carolina coach who I’ve known for 35 years, and [is a] great friend of mine, called me up when they didn’t let A.J. into… North Carolina,’ Manning told Hurrdat Sports. ‘A.J. was already there training some, and they didn’t let him in admissions-wise for various reasons, and Bill Belichick’s girlfriend had something to do with that.’

Manning then suggested the program was trying to avoid negative publicity after recent allegations in Chapel Hill.

In June, an unidentified female student told DailyTarHeel.com she planned to file a Title IX lawsuit against the school for allegedly mishandling her claim that she was nonconsensually filmed by a basketball player during a sexual encounter. UNC media relations declined comment to DailyTarHeel.com, citing federal privacy laws.

‘[I’m] very serious,’ Manning continued. ‘[Hudson was] one of the elements along with the men’s basketball player that had [an alleged] sexual assault the week before, and just a lot of drama, I think, for that chancellor.’

North Carolina football coach Bill Belichick’s 24-year-old girlfriend Jordon Hudson is being blamed for a top wrestler’s enrolment at another school

A.J. Ferrari reportedly considered transferring to UNC before settling on Nebraska 

Nebraska wrestling coach Mark Manning made the claim to Hurrdat Sports in late June 

According to Manning, Koll then reached out to suggest Nebraska look at Ferrari.

‘Rob was super disappointed,’ Manning said. ‘He spent a lot of time getting A.J. there, but they weren’t going to let him into school. So he called me up and said, “Hey, Mark, you’ve got a great team and you should get A.J. Ferrari.”

‘And I would have never thought about that… He convinced me and then off we went.’

North Carolina athletic department spokespeople did not respond to Daily Mail’s request for comment. 

Ferrari won an NCAA title at 197 pounds with Oklahoma State in 2021. Then, after the sexual battery allegations were dropped, he transferred to Cal State Bakersfield in 2024.

The Dallas native is coming off a 21-1 season in which he finished third at 197 pounds.

Belichick’s attempts to defend his relationship with Hudson and his disastrous interview with CBS have been laid bare in emails that emerged last month.

The legendary NFL coach, 73, is preparing for his first season in college football but his tenure has been so far overshadowed by headlines surrounding his romance with Hudson

A string of explosive reports have emerged over recent weeks, in the wake of a humiliating interview with CBS, when Hudson shut down questions about the start of their relationship. The clip went viral and sparked fresh speculation surrounding Hudson’s influence over the six-time Super Bowl-winning head coach.

One clip of her at UNC practice caused a particular headache for the legendary coach and soon reports emerged that she had been banned from the team’s facilities. UNC denied that was the case.

In a clip that went viral, Hudson shut down questions about the start of their relationship 

The legendary NFL coach has been under the microscope after a disastrous CBS interview 

‘Jordon has zero involvement in the UNC football program,’ Belichick claimed in the email 

In June, emails obtained by WRAL detailed the fallout from the CBS interview. They show that disgruntled fans felt the relationship was turning the school into a ‘laughing stock’. In the emails, however, Belichick defended Hudson and their romance.

‘Jordon and I have both a personal & professional relationship,’ Belichick wrote to Beth Keith, a senior associate vice chancellor in the Office of University Communications.

‘This is not a secret… Jordon assists me with my personal media, which is why I asked UNC to forward media requests (E.G. CBS 60 Minutes) to her.

‘Jordon has zero involvement in the UNC football program, beyond the degree that my personal media intersects with it.’

He also explained why his young girlfriend was at the interview, which was organized to promote his new book: ‘The Art of Winning: Lessons from My Life in Football.’

‘Jordon was present at the CBS interview because David Kass, the Simon & Schuster publicist, was not there,’ Belichick claimed.

‘I included Jordon in the book acknowledgments because she was a creative contributor to the book, including having the idea for formatting the 4 special pages in the book.’

According to WRAL News, however, Hudson intended to sit in on the April 21 interview regardless of whether Kass was there.