Jordon Hudson might be more acutely aware of Bill Belichick’s dealings in North Carolina than previously realized after a Freedom of Information Act request revealed an email where the famed football coach asked a UNC communications staffer to include his 23-year-old girlfriend on emails sent his way.
The emails were uncovered while reporters from Axios and The Assembly were working on a joint story about the increase in budget for the University of North Carolina after Belichick’s arrival at the program.
One email that The Assembly reporter Matt Hartman shared on social media showed a request that Belichick sent to Senior Associate Athletic Director for External Affairs and Strategic Communications Robbi Pickeral Evans.
The email appeared to be regarding football social media posts for Dec. 16, as per the subject line.
“Robbi, Thank you for the e-mail,” Belichick wrote. “I am including Jordon on this email so she can also keep up with our postings. Can you include her on anything you send to me? Thank you. BB.”
Hartman said in a second post that other emails showed Hudson getting copied on messages regarding whether to accept interview requests.
Belichick and Hudson’s relationship has made plenty of headlines since it became public knowledge last June.
The 49-year age gap has certainly raised eyebrows, though sources close to the couple have told Page Six that the relationship is the real deal and that Belichick and Hudson have “definitely discussed marriage.”
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The emails give some credence to a report from Pablo Torre last month that said Hudson was the coach’s “de facto agent.”
The FOIA request also revealed the reactions — both good and bad — from Tar Heels alumni over Belichick’s hiring and the massive volume of media requests UNC had received.
According to The Assembly’s higher education newsletter, “The Quad,” UNC saw one alum promise to “make an incremental 6 figure donation the day he is announced,” while others expressed concern about Belichick’s controversies in the NFL and the age gap between him and his girlfriend.
In one humorous email, a concerned alum sent a link to an article from the Babylon Bee — a satirical news site — asking whether a headline about Belichick accepting the job on the condition he could live in his girlfriend’s dorm was real.
“They can’t think this is real, right?” one UNC staffer wrote to another about the inquiry.
