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Football is a line of scrimmage game. Period. Smoke and mirrors can get you only so far and North Carolina’s interior defensive line has been a weak spot in all but Mack Brown’s first season back in Chapel Hill. Inside Carolina’s Jason Staples joins host Tommy Ashley to discuss his scouting reports on the members of new defensive line coach Ted Monachino’s room. How this unit performs will be a vital key to overall team success in the 2024 season.

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June is official visit season in college football and with the ramped up recruiting timeline for schools across the country, these summer months are key in replenishing the talent pools of those programs. Even with the transfer portal playing a vital role, high school official visits are a major factor in securing the talent needed to compete - and at North Carolina, this month is big for the 2025 class. Inside Carolina’s Don Callahan shares his takeaways from last weekend’s big showing and looks ahead to the rest of the recruiting timeline as Mack Brown and his coaching staff look to fill needs on offense and defense.

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With Scott Forbes’s North Carolina team headed to Omaha this week, Inside Carolina’s Taylor Vippolis and Tommy Ashley talked to a member of the last Tar Heel team to get to the epicenter of college baseball - Zack Gahagan. Gahagan was a member of the 2018 Diamond Heel squad that plowed through North Carolina A&T and Houston to win the Chapel Hill regional and swept Stetson in the super regional. Carolina defeated eventual national champion Oregon State to open the CWS but fell to Mississippi State and those Beavers ending the 44-20 season. Gahagan shares memories from his time at Carolina and of the run to Omaha.







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The North Carolina Tar Heels, led by star Vance Honeycutt, punched their ticket to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska with a thrilling two game sweep of the West Virginia Mountaineers. Honeycutt’s back to back home runs - on two consecutive pitches - spanning Friday and Saturday night’s games led the Diamond Heels, while a total team effort from Scott Forbes’s squad closed a magical season in Boshamer Stadium. Matt Poston and Dalton Pence both shut down West Virginia’s offense in critical late moments of both games to help the Heels advance to the school’s first CWS appearance since 2018. 

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North Carolina’s defense will be a focal point as the 2024 season arrives in late August, especially with the offense facing questions after the departure of two highly effective quarterbacks. Inside Carolina’s Jason Staples has produced a series of UNC player scouting reports dropping daily on InsideCarolina.com's premium Tar Pit message board. This episode is an overview of the linebackers and edges from Power to Rucker and the talented pieces in between.


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North Carolina faces West Virginia in one of eight NCAA Tournament Super Regionals this weekend with a trip to Omaha on the line. The Tar Heels earned their spot with a thrilling regional win over defending national champion LSU while the Mountaineers swept their way out of the Tucson regional, besting Dallas Baptist and Grand Canyon University. Inside Carolina’s Grace Nugent and Tommy Ashley discuss what went right for UNC to get to this point, stars of the weekend and keys to success as they battle WVU with a chance to advance to the College World Series next week. 

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