UNC football GM Michael Lombardi placed on paid administrative leave :: WRAL.com

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

UNC’s vice chancellor Dean Stoyer didn’t share the explanation in Monday’s announcement however launched the next assertion:

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

Lombardi earned $1.5 million in 2025, according to a salary database of UNC System employees.

WRAL beforehand reported that Lombardi was one of head coach Bill Belichick’s first hiresworking with him at NFL stops in Cleveland and New England. Lombardi additionally labored within the entrance workplaces for San Francisco, Philadelphia, Oakland and Denver over greater than 30 years within the NFL. He served because the recruiting coordinator at UNLV within the early Nineteen Eighties, his solely earlier faculty expertise.

WRAL News is working to be taught why Lombardi was placed on paid leave.