Bill Belichick reportedly interviewed for a head-coaching job this week. But it wasn’t with the Chicago Bears, New York Jets or New Orleans Saints.

Or any NFL club, for that matter.

The legendary former New England Patriots head coach interviewed for the top job at the University of North Carolina, according to multiple reports Thursday.

Inside Carolina was the first to report Belichick’s meeting with the Tar Heels, who fired head coach Mack Brown on Nov. 26.

Adam Carter of The News & Observer confirmed the report, adding that Belichick “blew them away in the interview” and that the 72-year-old’s interest in the job is “high and genuine.”

That strong interest reportedly is not mutual, however.

Carter reported Belichick is “extremely unlikely” to land the job “due to his age and lack of college experience.” The reporter speculated that “about two or three dozen candidates would have to say no before this had any real chance of going anywhere.”

Belichick has nearly five decades of NFL coaching experience and eight Super Bowl rings, but he’s never coached at the college level — a job that requires head coaches to be highly active in recruiting. That aspect of the role has become increasingly important and complicated since the expansion of the transfer portal and the introduction of NIL in college sports.

Any college job also would not help Belichick fulfill his goal of unseating Don Shula as the winningest head coach in NFL history. He needs 15 to pass Shula after going 3-14 in the last of his 24 seasons with New England.

Since being let go by the Patriots in January, Belichick has remained in the public eye through his litany of media jobs with ESPN, The CW Network, Underdog Fantasy and other outlets. He makes regular appearances on “The Pat McAfee Show” and ESPN’s Monday night “ManningCast,” is part of the “Inside the NFL” panel, and co-hosts multiple podcasts, including one with ex-Patriots assistant Matt Patricia and another with Tom Brady and Jim Gray.

Belichick’s oldest son, former Patriots defensive play-caller Steve Belichick, transitioned to college after his father’s exit, currently serving as defensive coordinator at the University of Washington.

North Carolina — alma mater of current New England quarterback Drake Maye — is considered the most appealing of the four Power Four schools with head-coach openings. (Purdue, West Virginia and UCF are the others.)