What in Tar Nation

Don’t Punt to Gio is back with a vengeance, as its time to put a bow on Mack Brown’s first full recruiting class as head coach at North Carolina.

Host Chad Floyd is joined by Jake Lawrence to (yet again) sing Brown’s praises for doing an admirable, if not recently-unprecedented, job of locking up a lot of the top talent in the state of North Carolina.

Discussed:

Bringing in the headliners, especially in the trenches.

The skill position talent: we might not see the returns on it immediately, but its definitely there.

How the quarterback room shapes up for the next 5 years.

Way too much excitement about this defensive class.

Superlatives! Highest upside, favorite player, biggest sleeper, you name it. There are approximately seven defensive players better than any Carolina has signed in the past five years in this class alone.

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SB Nation's Caroline Darney joins Lauren to talk about North Carolina (OMG Cole Anthony is hurt) and go in-depth on all of their favorite ACC Network commercials.

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After an inconveniently-timed hiatus, Don’t Punt to Gio is back to discuss...well, a lot.

Host Chad Floyd is joined by Jake Lawrence, and they get into four main topics: the State win (its still fun to discuss), Carolina’s All-ACC honorees, the Military Bowl vs. Temple, and the coaching carousel.

Did Carolina achieve catharsis against State, or was that the beginning?

How screwed, exactly, is N.C. State right this second?

Congratulations to Charlie Heck, Sam Howell, Dazz Newsome, and Chazz Surratt. What kind of proof of concept can be built from high honors in the conference?

Temple and the Military Bowl: at least its not Navy!

Oh god, coaches. Lane Kiffin to Ole Miss (and the innumerable outcomes of that marriage)! Former UNC OL coach Sam Pittman to Arkansas! Eli Drinkwitz to Mizzou! Mike Norvell to FSU! Coach hiring season really is the best, the most absurd, and I can’t get enough of it.

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All the bowl game assignments are out, and the North Carolina basketball team has dropped two straight, so Lauren welcomes back SI Heel Maven's Brant Wilkerson-New to talk all things bowl games and basketball.

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We are about 12 hours outside of another rough game for the Tar Heels. The team went into John Paul Jones Arena and got handed what is becoming a traditional beating against Virginia 47-56. While the merciful thing to do would be not to discuss what happened, we did it anyway.

In this episode, we discuss:

Armando Bacot’s surprising return to the starting lineup

UNC’s shooting woes continue

Free throw struggles all but costing the Heels the game

Breaking down UNC’s rough schedule against tough defensive teams

Jeremiah Francis and Anthony Harris made their Tar Heel debuts

Diffusing NCAA Tournament concerns

Best/worst of the game

Cole Anthony vs. Coby White talk

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We’ll be back following next week’s game against Wofford with more post-game coverage.

Go Heels!

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Tanya Bondurant and I are back for another edition of What in Tar Nation! On this week’s episode, we discuss UNC’s performance in the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament in the Bahamas. They finished the event with a 2-1 record, beating Alabama and #11 Oregon while falling to Michigan in the second round.

Discussed in this episode:

UNC surviving Alabama’s hot shooting in the opening game of the tournament

Brandon Robinson’s return and the immediate impact that he had against the Crimson Tide

The team coming out against Michigan firing on all cylinders before getting demolished...and then mounting a comeback to only lose by nine

A heated discussion about Cole Anthony’s play style

Garrison Brooks and Armando Bacot dominating the Oregon Ducks in the paint

Cole Anthony’s last-minute heroics

Best and worst of the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament (spoiler: there is an adequate amount of referee bashing)

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We’ll be back following next week’s game against Ohio State with more post-game coverage.

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We put all of our takeaways from three games against fairly hapless Carolina basketball foes into one, and tried to project them upon three much tougher opponents.

This is episode 28 of the Between the Banners podcast, the UNC basketball show on the Tar Heel Blog Podcast. Host Chad Floyd (@Chad_Floyd) is joined by Jake Lawrence (@therealestRJL) to talk about the Alabama game, and what follows, including:

How is Brandon Robinson re-incorporated into the lineup?

Does his presence create a trickle-down effect, reducing the minutes of Armando Bacot, Christian Keeling, and Andrew Platek?

Can Keeling take the step up to P5/whatever we call it on this level competition?

The opponents we haven’t established yet: what can we learn against (potentially) Michigan, Oregon, Seton Hall, and Gonzaga?

Buckle up, friends. The odds that the Heels leave this week 7-0 are pretty low. What’s a reasonable expectation, what can we learn from three games in three days, and what would you like to see? Hit our comments and let us know— we’ll be back to address it after the clock hits zero on Friday.

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Lauren welcomes the Athletic's Nicole Auerbach to the show to discuss Week 12 of the ACC as Pitt-UNC battled in a close one, Clemson is in War Machine mode, how Virginia Tech keeps cruising, and more.

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Another week, another episode of Don’t Punt to Gio, your UNC football podcast on the Tar Heel Blog Podcast.

Host Chad Floyd is joined by Al Hood to discuss:

Whether or not the Tar Heels need to reach a bowl to consider year one under Mack Brown a success. There’s a lot to unpack there.

Vaguely previewing the State game in two weeks without actually previewing the State game in two weeks.

Charting Carolina’s path to 6-6.

Discussing the ACC’s fairly complicated bowl tie-ins. There are a few chokepoints that make this really interesting, and we explained them to the best of our collective abilities (actually, pretty well).

We played bowl committee! Taking turns, we slotted each ACC program in bowl games, based on speculation that they have results in the next two weeks that are almost certainly not going to happen as we imagined.

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What in Tar Nation is back as Brandon joins Tanya to recap UNC basketball’s win against Gardner-Webb Friday night. The team improved to 3-0 on the season so far, but we definitely have some opinions about how things are going.

Discussed in this episode:

9 pm start times are cruel and unusual punishment

TV Teddy and High Knees Ref complaints

Cole Anthony had an okay-not-great game but still scored almost 30

Praise for Garrison Brooks’ defense

Free throw improvement, three-point struggles

Was last night a turning point for Christian Keeling getting going?

Adjusting expectations for a very young team

Basketball has been wild so far, making it hard to know what to expect

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We’ll be back to recap the Elon game next week. Until then...

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