Podcaster not ruling out legal action against UNC over Bill Belichick public records request
Pablo Torre has been busy digging into to the relationship between Bill Belichick and Jordon Hudson, reporting on his podcast 'Pablo Torre Finds Out' that Belichick's family has expressed 'deep worry' about the damage Hudson is doing the 73-year-old's legacy.
The podcaster also reported Hudson was banned from UNC's football facility — a claim the school has since refuted.
Torre has stood by his reporting, and won't rule out taking legal action if UNC doesn't respond to his multiple public records requests he's sent to the university by Friday.
'These are public records requests,' he said during an appearance on 'PFT PM.' 'I don't know why this should be vague or ambiguous. It's not like, 'Show me your e-mails,' as if there is no expectation of it. It's, 'You get as part of the pact between a public university and the federal government, you get things in exchange for what feels like a reasonable level of transparency.'
'So we can tell what is this public money going towards? It's standard operating procedure, and if we don't — if we feel like they are not obliging their legal obligations, we will certainly pursue avenues to make it so.'
Because UNC isn't a private university, Belichick's e-mails are open to those kinds of public records requests. The Athletic recently obtained e-mails Belichick sent asking for Hudson to be copied. The legendary coach chalked it up to the university not having a 'sports information guy.'
'Because all e-mails are shared publicly, that was taken as Jordon's running the sports information department,' Belichick said during a recent appearance on 'The Pivot' podcast. 'And that also led to a narrative, which is just totally — she's not doing it. There was nobody to help me sort it out, so I was asking her to do it.'
Torre didn't specify what specifically he was after in regards to the requests, and it's unclear whether the university will comply with the request or if legal action indeed will be taken.
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