UNC football general manager Michael Lombardi placed on paid administrative leave

The University of North Carolina announced this morning that the football program’s general manager, Michael Lombardi, has been placed on paid administrative leave effective immediately. Here is the full announcement:

“The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has placed Michael Lombardi, general manager for the Carolina football program, on paid administrative leave, effective immediately.

As a standard procedure with personal matters, leadership, staff, and student athletes are prohibited from addressing this topic further, and has no reflection on the merits.“

The school’s statement also said that additional details will be released at a later time.

Right now this is all we know, but it’s fair to say that this will bring in more unwanted attention to a program that didn’t get off to the best start during the Bill Belichick era. We won’t speculate as to what exactly happened, so we’ll see when the school decides to tell us more.