FOXBOROUGH – Patriots coach Mike Vrabel offered a brief response to the reported ban that New England scouts are facing at the University of North Carolina.

According to multiple reports , UNC coach Bill Belichick is not allowing Patriots scouts to attend the school’s football practices or games.

“Oh, no, that’s an individual choice and we’ll cross that bridge when we start looking at players,” Vrabel said. “I want to focus on our football team, and that’s their prerogative to make the decisions they feel like are best for them. And then we’ll have to find other ways to get the information for any players that we want to look at at North Carolina.”

Belichick, who took the North Carolina job last December after a year of pursuing media opportunities, spent 24 years coaching the Patrio

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