What in Tar Nation

Brandon Anderson joins Tanya Bondurant for a new show that dives into the latest happenings surrounding UNC sports. In this first episode, they discuss:

-Carolina football's schedule: How many wins will they be able to pull off in Mack Brown's first year back on campus?

-Alcohol Sales: When will UNC be ready to start selling alcohol, and will it be a disappointment if they're not ready for the first game against Miami?

-The Rich Paul Rule: Seriously, what is the NCAA doing anymore?

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Host Chad Floyd (@Chad_Floyd) is back with Jacob Cowden (@jacobcowden28) to preview the 2019 SEC football season! 

A little housekeeping: we are still working to retrieve the audio file for last week’s (obviously unpublished) Big Ten preview, so, for our Tar Heel Blog-reading Rutgers fans: we’re working on it. 

Discussed in this one: 

Georgia occupies the same tier, talent-wise, as Alabama and Clemson. Can they take the next step?Does Florida pose a legitimate threat to Georgia’s SEC East crown? Can South Carolina be a top-20 team while losing 8 games? The SEC West: basically, it would be really fun if Alabama didn’t exist.Why? Because LSU, Texas A&M, and Auburn could all be legitimately awesome.Also, the other eight teams I didn’t mention in this synopsis! If you remotely enjoy what we’re doing, go ahead and leave us a 5-star review on your podcast host of choice. Subscribe so you’ll get the (randomly scheduled, at this point) Tar Heel Blog Podcast in your feed the second it hits.

As always, thanks for listening, and Go Heels! 

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Round two of Don’t Punt to Gio’s conference previews is live! 

Working our way west to east, albeit unintentionally, host Chad Floyd is joined by Jacob Cowden to talk about the nation’s most unstable and entertaining conference, the Big XII. 

Discussed: 

Jacob’s realization that many of the conference’s locales would be a hard sell for recruits. “Come spend your next four years in (Waco, Manhattan, Ames, Lubbock, Stillwater) might be a tougher sell than we realized! Oklahoma: still the class of the conference. Can their defense improve and make them competitive in the CFP?Differing opinions on Texas. Chad’s rogue pick to join Oklahoma in the conference championship game. Four new coaches! What to expect of Matt Wells (Texas Tech), Chris Klieman (Kansas St.), Neal Brown (West Virginia), and Les Miles (Kansas). A quick touch on realignment scenarios, because we’d be remiss not to discuss them in this league.

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The ACC and SEC have their summer media days starting this week, so...let’s talk about the Pac-12! 

Along with host Chad Floyd, guest Jacob Cowden brings his unique west-coast expertise to talk about the nation’s westernmost Power 5 conference. 

Larry Scott, the nation’s worst conference commissioner, defended to an extent by Jacob;Really, really chalky picks by both guys on the podcast;Justin Herbert, K.J. Costello, Jacob Eason: is the Pac-12 North the cradle of quarterbacks for 2019? Looking back on some of our favorite #Pac12AfterDark moments;A malaise over the Southern Cal program, but is UCLA in worse shape? Give us a listen and get your week started right! While you’re doing so, go ahead and leave us a five-star review (it really helps us out). Your host will read it on air, no matter what it says.

We’ll be back with another conference, and some more good stuff from ACC Kickoff later this week! 

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Greensboro defensive end Myles Murphy, a composite borderline top-100 overall recruit in the country, committed to North Carolina on Monday.

Of course, that means we had to talk about it! 

Host Chad Floyd (@Chad_Floyd) is joined by eternal optimist Jake Lawrence (@therealestRJL) in a quick breakdown of the nation’s #5 strongside defensive end. 

Discussed: 

The staff’s perseverance in winning out a recruitment that long seemed to be a lost cause to South Carolina;The versatility of Jay Bateman’s scheme, and how Carolina could potentially fit seven or eight guys into one defensive line class; A little discussion on those fits, where Sean Martin and A.J. Beatty could be more hybrid DE/LB;And, of course, the token mentions and discussions of Kedrick Bingley-Jones and Desmond Evans, who could create the best defensive line recruiting class since the days of the first Mack Brown era.Its a fun, lively discussion! If you enjoy it, go ahead and pop over to your favorite podcast app, subscribe and leave a five-star review. We’ll read it on air. 

Til next time, Go Heels! 

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We’re not an NBA blog, and Between the Banners is not an NBA show. Now, having said that, we had to unwrap the specific brand of absurdity that only the Association can provide.

Al Hood (@albhood) and a cameo by Akil Gurupuran (@akillesheel17) join host Chad Floyd (@Chad_Floyd) to unwrap the pure WTF of NBA Free Agency, which opened on Sunday at 6pm.

Being good Tar Heels, we related the craziness back to some of the Heels in the NBA. 

Theo Pinson’s role on the now must-watch Brooklyn Nets;Wayne Ellington and Reggie Bullock: plan F or G for the Knicks, but THEY’RE GETTING PAID EIGHT FIGURES, DAMNIT!; We totally forgot about Harrison Barnes’ $85 million deal for the first 50 minutes;Raymond Felton: still in the NBA, likely future Laker;Ed Davis as a mentor for Tony Bradley? Those are really the supplementary points to the plot: Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, Jimmy Butler, Kawhi Leonard, and are all on the move, and we unpacked as much of it as we possibly could. 

Its not our normal beat, but it was still fun! 

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Following up on the kneejerk reactions from the 2019 NBA Draft last week, host Chad Floyd (@Chad_Floyd) and guest Joe Carpenter (@joecarpenteriv) came back to revisit last week’s festivities.

The biggest talking point coming out of the draft was Nassir Little’s fall, but is that outweighed by the success of Coby White and Cam Johnson? 

For those who have been living under a rock, Coby White went 7th overall to the Chicago Bulls, Cam Johnson exceeded any rational expectation at 11th to the Phoenix Suns, and Nassir Little came in well behind any reasonable expectation, dropping to Portland at 25. 

Joe drops some nice historical nuggets and comparisons to Roy Williams’ results;Talk of how Coby’s emergence has already paid dividends with Cole Anthony; Cam Johnson has a brother with a North Carolina offer, that doesn’t hurt.And more! Go ahead and leave us a nice 5-star review, hit us on the ‘subscribe’ feature on your preferred podcast-listening tool, and keep on listening! 

Until next time, go Heels. 

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Jacob Cowden (@jacobcowden28) wrote about it, so you know what that means: we had to talk about it. Host Chad Floyd (@Chad_Floyd) brought the quarterback-ranking Tar Heel Blog colleague to discuss his rankings, break down some rationale, and let Chad quibble very slightly with his picks. 

Discussed: 

Chad didn’t do his research on Mercer’s QB;COASTAL CHAMP Kenny Pickett of Pitt;Interesting battles at N.C. State, Georgia Tech, and (possibly?) Miami;Ryan Willis: decent-to-good quarterback, should’ve just started his career at North Dakota State; Jake Bentley, and comparisons to Jake Browning (formerly of Washington), and it being confusing because this year’s Washington QB is Jacob Eason and we’re talking to Jacob Cowden;Trevor Lawrence: the best college QB this millennium.If you like what you hear (or you’re my mom, HI MOM!) go ahead and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. There’s likely a friendly app right there on your listening device to make that process seamless. 

Go Heels! 

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Well, this one was a tough one to evaluate. 

The North Carolina Tar Heels had an amazing first eleven picks in last night’s NBA Draft, with Coby White landing in Chicago with the 7th pick, and Cam Johnson moving from a borderline 1st-2nd rounder to 11th overall, where he was drafted by the Phoenix Suns. 

Noted Chicago Bulls superfan Brandon Anderson (@THBBrandon) and Chad Floyd (@Chad_Floyd) discussed each guy’s fits on their current NBA rosters, what it means for the Tar Heels going forward, and whether or not we get to dispel this stupid notion that Roy Williams cannot handle one-and-done talent (editorial note: honestly, it probably didn’t help!) 

In a departure from Between the Banners 20, we talk ourselves into Little landing on a playoff team being a good thing for his development. In the previous pod, we talked about how that would benefit Cameron Johnson.

We also touched on Cam, newly-minted veteran leader of the Phoenix Suns as a rookie. (Its a wonderful fit, don’t @ us.) 

And finally, despite the initial bliss having worn off, Brandon told us about how dysfunctional the Chicago Bulls organization currently is, but how Coby White could start to represent the light at the end of the tunnel. Their last first-round pick from UNC turned out well enough. 

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Welcome to our (roughly) monthly North Carolina recruiting update! 

Host Chad Floyd is joined by two talented guests in Akil Gurupuran and Jake Lawrence, and they catch you up with everything you need to know with regards to Mack Brown’s current recruiting efforts. 

Those things may include: 

The five recent verbal commitments: Sean Martin, Jefferson Boaz, A.J. Beatty, Jacolby Criswell, and Dontavious Nash;The difficulty in projecting guys like Martin, Boaz, and Beatty in Jay Bateman’s “positionless” 3-4 scheme;Optimism about the quarterback position, and a good 8-10 minutes on Carolina’s 21st century quarterback ebbs and flows;Dontavius Nash’s potential impact as a player, and as the bellcow for the 2021 class as a whole;Pining for Desmond Evans, Kedrick Bingley-Jones, and some more big names to go ahead and jump on board.If you like what you hear (hell, its the 9th ranked recruiting class in the country right now...this time last year the Heels weren’t cracking the top 10 in the damn conference) go ahead and leave us a 5-star review and subscribe on your podcast platform of choice. 

Go Heels! 

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