Other WRAL Top StoriesThe investigation was announced Thursday morning, hours before second-year head coach Bill Belichick and the Tar Heels opened preseason practice. August is typically a recruiting dead period, though recruiting ramps up during high school football season throughout the fall. He returned to the Lombardi investigation unprompted at the end of his press availability Thursday. The Tar Heels went 4-8 in Belichick’s first season and had one of the worst offenses in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Tar Heels added transfers Billy Edwards Jr. (Maryland) and Miles O’Neill (Texas A&M) as well as freshman Travis Burgess.