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What is Bill Belichick Net Worth ?

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April 26, 2022

What is Bill Belichick Net Worth ?

Bill Belichick is an American football head coach who has a net worth of $60 million. He is best known as the head coach of the New England Patriots. Belichick got his start in 1975 when he took a job with the Baltimore Colts.

By the 1980s, he was the defensive coordinator for the New York Giants and touted as one of the brightest minds in the game. After a rocky stint as head coach of the Cleveland Browns in the early 1990s, the New England Patriots hired Bill in 2000. He’s guided the franchise to 6 Super Bowl victories as of 2020.

He is widely known as one of the best coaches in NFL history, showing an early aptitude for the game of football, a trait he no doubts inherited from his father, a longtime assistant coach and college football scout.

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Personal Life: Bill married Debby Clarke in 1977, and they had 3 children, Amanda, Stephen, and Brian, before divorcing in 2006; the couple separated in 2004 after Belichick was accused of having a relationship with Sharon Shenocca, a former receptionist for the Giants.

Amanda played lacrosse at Wesleyan like her father and became the women’s lacrosse coach at Holy Cross College.

Stephen and Brian have both worked for the Patriots – Stephen as an assistant coach and safeties coach and Brian as a scouting assistant. Bill began a relationship with Linda Holliday in 2007, and she is the Executive Director of the Bill Belichick Foundation, which provides financial support, coaching, and mentorship to individuals, organizations, and communities involved in football and lacrosse.

Early Life: Bill Belichick was born William Stephen Belichick on April 16,1952, in Nashville, Tennessee. He grew up in Annapolis, Maryland, with his mother Jeannette, and father Steve, who worked as an assistant football coach at the United States Naval Academy; Bill’s godfather is Bill Edwards, a College Football Hall of Fame coach.

Belichick studied the way his father dissected game film and drew up plays, and often accompanied Steve to coaches meetings. By his early teens, Bill was a regular part of the team’s practices and was well-versed in the game’s schemes and formations. Belichick attended Annapolis High School, where he was a member of the football and lacrosse teams.

He graduated in 1970, then attended Massachusetts’ Phillips Academy for a postgraduate year, improving his test scores and grades enough to get into Wesleyan University. At Wesleyan, Bill played tight end and center on the football team and was the captain of the lacrosse team; he also played squash and joined the Chi Psi fraternity.

In 1975, Belichick graduated with a bachelor’s degree in economics.

Career: After graduating from Wesleyan, Belichick took a job with the Baltimore Colts for $25 a week, serving as an assistant to head coach Ted Marchibroda. In 1976, he became the assistant special team coach for the Detroit Lions, and the following year, he began coaching wide receivers and tight ends.

In 1978, Bill began working for the Denver Broncos as a defensive assistant and assistant special teams coach.

Awards and Honors: The Associated Press has named Belichick NFL Coach of the Year 3 times, for 2003, 2007, and 2010 seasons, and he holds the distinction of being the only active head coach chosen for 2019’s National Football League 100th Anniversary All-Time Team.

Bill was inducted into the Wesleyan University Athletics Hall of Fame in 2008 and the Phillips Academy Athletics Hall of Honor in 2011. Wesleyan’s Warren Street lobby was renamed “Belichick Plaza” in 2017.

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Real Estate: In 1979, the Belichicks paid $70,000 for 2 lots on Shell Street in Sconset, Massachusetts, and built 3 homes there for themselves, Bill’s parents, and Debby’s parents.

In 2006, Bill and Debby paid $4.6 million for a 5-bedroom home in Nantucket, and Debby got it in the divorce. In 2014, the corporations Bill had formed purchased a Shell Street property for $870,000 and a nearby 2-bedroom home for $2.45 million.

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