Tar Heel born, bred, and working on that third thing
Look, I’m not going to try and pull a Mike Lombardi here on you and try to convince you that this win on Friday night was a game-changing, earth-shattering event that proves the current regime knows what they are doing. There was plenty on display Friday to show the opposite of that and if you’re […]
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However we want to talk about the two televised exhibition games this UNC team has played already, it’s a novel feeling to be writing about a season opener when we’ve already seen the team. I’m not used to college sports having a preseason. That’s not a value judgment or anything, just an observation. With fans […]
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We are just a couple of days away from Carolina basketball officially returning, and the buzz around the team is getting louder after two impressive exhibition games. It’s easy to write off these types of events as unimportant, but here’s the thing: nobody knew anything about this team prior to the BYU and Winston-Salem State […]
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Earlier this week, several of us here at Tar Heel Blog mused that UNC running back Demon June needed to be getting more carries as the UNC offense continued to struggle against both good opponents and bad. He’s been the best back based on both the box scores and the eye test. June seemed to […]
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Despite being the better team, UNC fans braced for the worst when the North Carolina Tar Heels went into the half down four. After the break, though, the Tar Heels focused on what went right in the first half to dominate the second stanza. This Carolina team, under the unrelenting focus of the national microscope, […]
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UNC’s football game against Syracuse was one fitting of being played on Halloween night. It was scary for all involved and a Demon was the star of the show. No tape of this game should ever be preserved for any reason, but Carolina was able to take advantage of a terrible performance by the Orange […]
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The North Carolina Tar Heels share just moments away from facing off against Syracuse on the road to try and win their first ACC game of the season. This is a sentence that will be modified, copied, and pasted until morale improves, and there is no telling if we will ever get to stop doing […]
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Scene: Indoors, a rectangular room with a long table at the front. Microphones are clustered around an empty seat in the middle of the table. Assembled PRESS, their backs to the camera, shuffle quietly and clear their throats, evidently waiting for something or someone. Enter SUIT, who leans over the chair and speaks into the […]
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My orange hate has nothing to do with Syracuse actually. That’s a Tennessee, Clemson, and Auburn thing. Syracuse chose Orange, though, so they chose poorly. Beat Syracuse. Badly. Please. It’s the only remaining orange on the schedule. My last chance. UNC faces Syracuse on the road in an ACC tilt Friday night, with kick-off set […]
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When will Luka Bogavac be cleared to play? Apparently the Serbian sharpshooter has been signed off on as eligible by the NCAA and he’s enrolled and going to class. The stonewall is some kind of administrative hold-up regarding processing his international transcript that UNC has been working on for months. It’s all very frustrating from […]
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Let me tell you about the biggest letdown I ever had on Halloween. I was 10 years old, or somewhere around that age, and well into a night of trick-or-treating. As I moved between houses, I came across one with an old couple handing out goods. The place wasn’t very well lit, so I couldn’t […]
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You may be rightI may be crazyOh, but it just may be a lunatic you’re looking forTurn out the lightDon’t try to save meYou may be wrong for all I knowBut you may be right You May Be Right – Billy Joel That, in a nutshell, sums up preseason rankings. They are based on very […]
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What will UNC’s men’s basketball season look like? We’ve argued all off-season about it. Now it’s prediction time. The roster has turned over almost completely. UNC men’s basketball doesn’t go into the season with quite the same number of questions as the football team did, but it’s close. Seth Trimble’s a significant known quantity, but […]
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The last time UNC Football played on a Friday night, it was the first time all season that they put up a fight against a Power Four opponent — the first sign we’d seen all season of a semblance of progress. Two weeks later, they’ll be looking to take that next step and find an […]
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After losing their first exhibition game against BYU, the Tar Heels returned to Chapel Hill and blew out Winston-Salem State to earn their first exhibition win. There were a lot of good things that we saw in this game from a lot of different Tar Heels, which is encouraging considering that the regular season starts […]
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This year’s North Carolina Tar Heels men’s basketball team is an intriguing one. On paper, they have a lot of talent and seem to fit together coherently as a team more than a couple of other recent UNC teams. However, while they have players who have been good in college, they don’t have anyone on […]
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For both UNC and Syracuse, the 2025 football season is rapidly slipping away. Both teams had high hopes when the season kicked off; Bill Belichick was supposed to bring a pro-style program to Chapel Hill, while Syracuse was looking to build upon a massively successful 2024 campaign where they went 10-3, and knocked off ninth […]
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We’ve seen them scrimmage against each other, and we watched them head out to Salt Lake City and take on a preseason Top Ten ranked team. Now, for the first time, the Tar Heels take the court at home to face an opponent as we inch closer to the real start of the college basketball […]
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There’s nothing quite like ACC football on a Friday night. If that isn’t enticing enough for you, the game between UNC vs. Syracuse will take place on Halloween. It is certainly spooky hours for both of these teams, though we all know that the Tar Heels may be the most haunted team between the two. […]
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The Tar Heels had a hard-fought two-point loss to the BYU Cougars in Utah on Friday night. It’s tough to know too much about a team from just one exhibition game, but let’s take a look at the perceived strengths and weaknesses of this roster so far. Strengths: Height As Hubert indicated in the offseason, […]
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UNC has hardly faced a murderer’s row of a schedule so far, but they have faced some opponents at an inopportune time. TCU was clearly revved up to start their year against Bill Belichick and the Tar Heels, and came out storming. Clemson needed to make a statement to keep any hope of a decent […]
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Upsets and Blowouts. That’s the best way to describe the ACC this past weekend. Of the seven ACC games, six were either upsets or blowouts by at least two touchdowns. The seventh was an almost upset that fell just inches short (more on that below). Regardless, the upsets did a little ranking shaking, while the […]
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In a lot of ways the loss to Virginia can be summarized thusly: next verse, same as the first. Yet again the Tar Heels squandered points by fumbling close to the end zone, yet again the offense stagnated after a decent start, and yet again the Tar Heels lost to a Power 4 team. The […]
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Compared to the chaos of the past few weeks, this Saturday was a relatively quiet one in college football. There were still some great games: Oklahoma-Ole Miss and Vanderbilt-Missouri both lived up to their billing as top-15 matchups, Memphis stunned then-#18 South Florida with a fourth-quarter rally, then-#22 Texas stunned Mississippi State with a fourth-quarter […]
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Let’s skip all the already-tired lines about how this was another close loss that came down to the UNC offense not being able to quite make it to the end zone and get to the evaluation. Spoilers: a lot of these will look better than they have for most of the year, but probably the […]
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