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Vance Honeycutt did it again. With North Carolina needing a two out hit in the bottom of the ninth, the junior centerfielder came through with a single to left field that scored Jackson Van De Brake from third, giving the Tar Heels a 3-2 walk off win over Virginia in game one of the College World Series. Former Diamond Heel Mike Cavasinni joins host Tommy Ashley to break down the thrilling win out...

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 vi...

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...

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. C...

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 seaso...

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...

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 disc...

With recruiting in full swing and the summer visit season at a fever pitch, Inside Carolina's Don Callahan and Tommy Ashley discuss the latest in North Carolina football recruiting on this edition of the Noon Dish. Callahan recaps last weekend's list of visitors and looks ahead to the biggest weekend so far for UNC's 2025 class. All this plus camp discussion and this week's top five. To learn more...

North Carolina's activity in the Transfer Portal has been quite the hot topic for the past few months as the roster continues to take shape for next season. Additionally, the members of the recruiting class of 2024 will arrive at UNC in the coming days. Adam Finkelstein of 247 Sports and CBS Sports joins Sherrell McMillan and Joey Powell for a special episode of the Coast to Coast podcast to give...

Inside Carolina's Taylor Vippolis is joined by New York Jets linebacker Chazz Surratt to talk about his time at UNC including his journey from quarterback to linebacker to the NFL. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices **Call to Action:**   **Subsc...

Inside Carolina’s Noon Dish is back with another episode dedicated the a look behind the scenes in North Carolina football recruiting. Alex Marrs, Director of High School Relations for Mack Brown’s program, joins Don Callahan and Tommy Ashley for a discussion about the importance of June on the college football calendar and how camps are organized and put on for the hundreds of recruits and teams...

The North Carolina Diamond Heels host a trio of teams - LSU, Wofford, Long Island - in the NCAA Tournament’s Chapel Hill Regional beginning Friday in Boshamer Stadium. Inside Carolina’s Grace Nugent and Tommy Ashley offer their keys for Tar Heel success as Scott Forbes’s team looks to continue the home field success this weekend. Starting pitching, clean defensive efforts and clutch hitting highli...

With the offseason in full swing for Mack Brown’s North Carolina team, Inside Carolina’s Jason Staples opens his scouting report series with the defensive backs. Staples joins host Tommy Ashley for a review of the Tar Heel safeties, nickels and corners with a focus on the projected two deep for defensive coordinator Geoff Collins. Staples and Ashley also highlight three newcomers that could play a...

As college landscape continues to rapidly change, the University of North Carolina finds itself with important decisions and plans to make to deal with the financial burdens of competing at the highest level. On this edition of Inside Carolina's Next Level, Greg Barnes and Tommy Ashley discuss the Board of Trustees, their role in handling UNC’s business and if and when all of the parties involved...

North Carolina received a key commitment from the transfer portal this week, and its second from Nashville. Ven-Allen Lubin, a forward from Vanderbilt, has signalled his intent to play in Chapel Hill next season. Sherrell McMillan, Sean Moran and Joey Powell convened to discuss this breaking story.  To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privac...

On today’s Inside Carolina Noon Dish, Don Callahan joins Tommy Ashley to break down the latest in North Carolina football recruiting as high school prospects take center stage as camp and official visit season has arrived. UNC general manager Pat Suddes joins the show to discuss the coming days and weeks for the Tar Heels, the portal approach for the Heels and interesting tales from the recruiting...

After a weekend full of AAU action, the UNC Basketball staff returned to Chapel Hill ready to extend scholarship offers to more members of the 2025 class. Sherrell McMillan and Sean Moran join Joey Powell to analyze a flurry of offers and the recipients, as well as resetting where things stand with regard to finding help in the post from the transfer portal.  To learn more about listener data and...

North Carolina heads into the ACC Tournament as the number one seed and fresh off a series win at Duke to close the regular season. Head coach Scott Forbes joins hosts Tommy Ashley and Grace Nugent to discuss getting to this point in a long grinding season and how his team is best prepared for the challenges of postseason baseball. Ashley and Nugent also discuss post season awards as eight Diamond...

Inside Carolina's Taylor Vippolis is joined by  MassLive.com 's Patriots beat writer Chris Mason to talk about the Patriots drafting Drake Maye after Mason went to Carolina to write a feature on the quarterback. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices **C...

With North Carolina's final mid-week game of the season against UNC-Wilmington rained out, head coach Scott Forbes joins Inside Carolina's Tommy Ashley and Grace Nugent to talk practice routine, preparation ahead of the final regular season weekend and pitching. In addition, Nugent and Ashley dig into Coach Forbes's background and what influences and events shaped the man himself. To learn more ab...

Taylor Vippolis is joined by  Sherrell D. McMillan, Greg Barnes, and national champion Marcus Ginyard to draft a starting five from Carolina basketball players needing one player from each of the past five decades. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices...

The college transfer portal has closed and while North Carolina’s coaching staff remains diligent in mining that portal for experienced talent, high school recruiting is the focus of this week’s Inside Carolina Noon Dish with expert Don Callahan and host Tommy Ashley. Official visit season ramps up in the coming weeks with the month of June being a hectic time around the Kenan Football Center and...

With final exams in session at the University of North Carolina, the Diamond Heels had the weekend off. But as head coach Scott Forbes tells Inside Carolina's Tommy Ashley and Matt Clements, there is no rest for his coaching staff or the team as preparations for a midweek tilt versus Campbell and the last home ACC series against Louisville are the current focus. To learn more about listener data a...

This week, UNC received official news that RJ Davis was returning to Chapel Hill for his COVID year, while also missing out on one of it's biggest targets in the transfer portal. Fans have experienced quite the roller coaster week, and the Coast to Coast Podcast spends some time resetting what's next for the Tar Heel basketball program as roster construction for next season continues. To learn mor...

In this episode of On The Beat, Adam Smith, Jeremiah Holloway and Evan Rogers join host John Bauman reminisce about the season that was at UNC. Each member of the panel discusses their favorite quote, anecdote or moment from the 2023-24 UNC season. The panel also starts the show by discussing some of the recent UNC basketball roster news, including a breakdown of the impact of RJ Davis' return to...