Tar Heel Blog
Tar Heel born, bred, and working on that third thing
Total reads
3,104
This week
0
Rank
#72 of 425
Published
906 posts
Most read posts
Featured on Sportsblogs
Run this blog? Add the badge to your site to show readers you're featured — it links back to this page.
Latest Entries
UNC Football 2026 Position Group Reviews: Offense
Catching up? Here are Tar Heel Blog’s position group reviews for the offense: quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers, tight ends, offensive line. By now, if you’ve been following things over the past couple of weeks, the emerging theme across the position group reviews seems clear: question marks everywhere. Bold text denotes players coming off of […]
UNC Football 2026 Position Preview: Defensive Line
A theme across most of our position previews thus far has been a need for groups to improve after being somewhere between bad and awful in 2025. As we shift to defense, that changes a little bit. While last year’s offense was putrid no matter how you look at it, Bill and Steve Belichick’s defense […]
What is a realistic goal for UNC football in 2026?
With the calendar now into August, we’re firmly in the preview portion of the buildup to college football season. Every website, podcast, or college football outlet around is talking about what might happen in 2026. That includes us here at Tar Heel Blog, as we’ve been trying to figure out what the hell his year’s […]
Checking in on UNC’s 2026 MLB Draftees
We are about two months out from the North Carolina Tar Heels’ heartbreaking loss in the finals at the College World Series. In the weeks since, the 2026 MLB Draft was also held, and a number of UNC players have since begun their professional careers. With some time having passed from that, let’s take a […]
Seth Trimble’s commitment to Louisville highlights the NCAA’s ambiguous rules
As many UNC fans know by now, former UNC guard Seth Trimble has announced his commitment to the Louisville Cardinals. He made his announcement yesterday, and when the news broke Twitter started smoking. Some fans were shocked that he would choose an ACC team to transfer to, while others were just hoping that he would’ve […]
UNC Basketball: Where does Seth Trimble’s Transfer rank?
The sound you heard was the last bit of college basketball collapsing. With the news of Seth Trimble, potentially the last four-year player at UNC, announcing his transfer to Louisville on Wednesday, what little good remained in the sport was dashed. Not only does this mean that RJ Davis is now the last player to […]
Looking at UNC and TCU fall camps amid Belichick’s information blackout
UNC football fall camp continues, with an intrasquad scrimmage held on Sunday. What can we say about that scrimmage? Nothing, really. No one outside the program was allowed to watch it. No anonymous sources even care to talk much about it, apparently. And if and when anonymous sources do open up about it, could we […]
UNC Football 2026 Position Preview: Offensive Line
If the theme of my 2026 tight end preview was “potential”, the best word to describe the offensive line is “rebuilding.” It was one of the worst units on the team last year and was one of the (many) reasons the team stumbled to a 4-8 record in Bill Belichick’s inaugural season with UNC. To […]
How many wins would Bobby Petrino have been worth last season?
The most important decisions a head coach can make come down to their offensive and defensive coordinators. Steve Spurrier could only knock on the door of a title until he landed Bob Stoops as a defensive coordinator. Mack Brown 2.0’s recruiting landed some offensive talents capable of elevating UNC to rare air, but he botched […]
Everything you need to know about attending a football game day at UNC
We are now just two weeks away from UNC football’s first game of the 2026 season against TCU in Dublin, Ireland. While the first game won’t even be in the United States, fans are still constructing their plans for the home games that they will be in attendance for. So, we would like to help […]
Michael Malone will make UNC Basketball coaching debut in Greensboro
With students coming back onto the UNC campus this week, the First Day of Class hitting next week, and a roster that is finally set, we also have an answer to the question of “When will Michael Malone coach his first game as the UNC Basketball coach?” We thought the answer might be October 18th […]
What’s your go-to UNC rewatch game?
I think I speak not just for our readers but for sports fans around the world when I say that when I need a pick-me-up, nothing quite hits the spot like really satisfying highlight tape, or sometimes even a full game replay, from a team I support — the emotions may never be like the […]
UNC Football 2026 Position Preview: Tight End
The UNC football team will enter the 2026 season with a revamped tight end room. The only tight end on the roster that recorded a reception last season is Shamar Easter, who caught two passes for 17 years in his redshirt sophomore season with the Heels. Jake Johnson was the only player at the tight […]
Is the Protect College Sports Act Dead?
The Senate is now in recess, making sure that they passed several key pieces of legislation and also making sure the Protect College Sports Act would get a vote, just not now. This is on the heels of news that the Congressional Black Caucus disapproved of the the Act prior to the failure of the […]
Who is the best current UNC head coach?
Earlier this week, North Carolina announced a contract extension for men’s golf coach Andrew DiBitetto. While he hasn’t yet been able to bring a national championship back to Chapel Hill, DiBitetto has basically accomplished everything else as the Tar Heels’ coach. His 10-year tenure so far has been a success. Across the sporting spectrum UNC […]
How big is the Cameron Fens decision for UNC Basketball?
If a Federal Judge is going to allow players to play all five years, then you might as well use it. Michael Malone’s first squad for UNC was shaping up to be one that had the potential to be fun to watch, but also was very short on size with experience. The roster had three […]
A Tar Heel preview of the NFL Preseason
For the first time in a decade, the NFL drafted zero players out of Chapel Hill, which means there aren’t really any new Tar Heels with a serious shot of sticking on a roster and playing on Sundays this fall. That doesn’t mean there aren’t any new stories for the Tar Heels already in the […]
What amendments would you add to the Protect College Sports Act?
The future of the Protect College Sports Act was put in doubt once again this week, with a handful of senators pushing amendments to the bill that could prolong the legislative process. On Thursday, Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Jim Banks (R-Ind.), and Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), filed an amendment that would prevent the PCSA from overruling […]
UNC basketball set to play against West Virginia in Charlotte
The UNC men’s basketball has exactly one college they’ve played more than once but have never beaten. The Heels have never defeated West Virginia in men’s basketball; they sport a 0-5 record against the Mountaineers all-time. In light of this fact, Thursday’s announcement that the Heels will square off against WVU in a nonconference matchup […]
UNC Football 2026 Position Review: Wide Receivers
Catching up? You can find the QB review here and the running back review here. Three seasons ago, UNC fielded one of its best offenses ever, with its best quarterback ever. Last season was one of the worst offenses UNC’s ever put on the field. Talk about whiplash. A look back at opponent-adjusted metrics: offense […]
Should UNC be concerned about Steve Belichick going on medical leave?
Yesterday Bill Belichick announced that UNC’s defensive coordinator Steve Belichick is on medical leave due to an undisclosed illness. During Belichick’s announcement, he stated that Steve would return “as soon as possible,” leaving his potential return timeline a bit of a mystery. What’s notable about this announcement is something that UNC fans have had to […]
UNC announces 2026 Patterson Medal winners
Between all the different awards across the different college sports, plus even school specific things like North Carolina’s Rammy Awards, there are a lot of different pieces of hardware Tar Heel athletes can win. Just purely as far as the university itself goes, the most prestigious is their Patterson Medal, which honors athletes across their […]
Which highly-touted recruit had the most disappointing UNC career?
Six years after he was selected 15th overall in the NBA Draft, former Tar Heel Cole Anthony is out of the league. Anthony signed with Australian club Melbourne United on Wednesday, marking the latest chapter in a career that arguably hasn’t lived up to the hype. While six seasons in the NBA is nothing to […]
“Chapel Thrill” concert series announced for 2026 football season
You might remember last year during the early hype of the Bill Belichick hire, that UNC announced a series of pre-game concerts for home games called “Chapel Thrill.” They started with alumn and former football player Chase Rice, and managed to bring some legitimately big names — probably most notable Ludacris — to town for […]
UNC Football 2026 Position Preview: Running Backs
As we continue with our position previews for the 2026 college football season, we turn our attention to the running backs. Of all the position groups, the running backs does return their top two leading rushers, who accounted for 58.4% of the teams total yards, from the 2025 team that finished fourteenth in rushing yards […]
Displaying items 1-25 of 906 in total