Tar Heel Blog Podcast: for North Carolina Tar Heels fans

UNC/SC preview with Richard Cox of Garnet and Black Attack. Check TarHeelBlog.com for show notes!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In An ACC Podcast's first episode, Banner Society's Bud Elliott joins Lauren to talk about reactions from Week 0, look ahead to Week 1, discuss some of the most interesting lines of the week, and more! This episode, Lauren and Bud recap the action from Miami-Florida, look at some big upcoming games with Virginia Tech, Boston College, and North Carolina, and discuss the Blue-Chip Ratio and how schools like Virginia, Duke, and others are recruiting Plus, she has a special guest make picks for all this weekend's ACC games!  Subscribe to your favorite ACC team's podcast network to make sure you don't miss an episode!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Football season is upon us, and What In Tar Nation is back with another episode ahead of the Tar Heels’ first game against South Carolina on Saturday. Brandon Anderson joins me, as always, to chat about the latest things happening in the world of UNC sports. In this episode, we cover the following topics: Suspensions for the first half of the South Carolina game and how we definitely both blocked out that information in our attempt to forget last seasonApparently some people feel they own the right to light a building in school colors. Who knew?Our boldest takes on what will be the biggest surprise of UNC’s first game of the seasonUNC vs South Carolina score predictionsWe’ll be back with another episode of What In Tar Nation following Saturday’s game, so be sure to circle back for that on Sunday. In the mean time, subscribe to our podcast via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your podcast application of choice. That way you’ll always have our latest hot takes pushed right to your phone for easy listening. Go Heels! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Why have we posted four episodes of Don’t Punt to Gio in the past week?  Because when Michael Felder (@InTheBleachers) of StadiumTV (@WatchStadium) is available for 45 minutes on a Friday afternoon right on the precipice of college football season, you make it happen.  Felder, for those uninitiated, is an absolute must-follow during college football season. He’s extremely insightful, interactive and blunt while live-tweeting whatever he’s watching. If you catch him outside college football season? Hilarity ensues. He was also a walk-on defensive back for Carolina from 2003-2007. We talked about that experience, the highs and lows, and, of course, our weekly drinking schedules as Carolina students.  From there, we jumped into Carolina’s schedule, where he dispelled some of our preconceived notions (is Georgia Tech going to be better than we thought?) and closed it out with some spicy takes for the 2019 football season. This was a fun interview, and I really hope you enjoy it. For more like this, jump on your podcast platform of choice, download, subscribe, leave a glowing review...it helps us pitch taking people’s time (when they’re not as gracious as today’s guest) to join us.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Host Chad Floyd and faithful partner on the journey throughout the P5, Jacob Cowden (@Chad_Floyd and @jacobcowden28, respectively, they’re both worth a follow!) finished their transcontinental preview series with the division they know best: the ACC Coastal!  Discussed:  Year 1 under Manny Diaz at Miami. Is Jarran Williams the answer they need at QB to propel them back to Charlotte and beyond? That defense is nasty.Virginia: can they complete the ACC Coastal circle of suck, becoming the 7th team in 7 years to represent the division in the ACC Championship game?Prayers up for the tire fire to continue raging in Blacksburg.Pitt’s identity crisis.Year zero for Geoff Collins at Georgia Tech, henceforth known as #WaffleHouseUChad’s hot take on a MAJOR upset on Duke’s schedule.A little bit on the reason you’re reading this blurb, the North Carolina Tar Heels.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Momma we made it!  After a six-week whirlwind of previewing college football conferences around the country, host Chad Floyd (@Chad_Floyd) and willing co-pilot Jacob Cowden (@jacobcowden28) have made it back to Bojangles country.  Its time to talk ACC Atlantic. Despite there being no actual plan on how to go through the teams (Chad totally almost forgot Florida State, I’ll retweet you if you catch it), the guys brought some analysis on the ACC’s other division.  Louisville and Scott Satterfield: it can’t be as bad as last year, can it? Boston College: what now, as their defense is no longer elite? Syracuse: the Dino Babers/Andre Cisco mancrush segmentWhat to make of Wake? Is year two really the time to have strong opinions on Willie Taggart? Can you turn around the worst offensive line of this century (stats back this up) in one year?State.Clemson: agree or disagree that this is the best assemblage of offensive talent since the 2004-05 USC team? (The hosts share the same opinion on the matter.)We really hope you enjoy, and we also hope you subscribe and leave a five-star review on your podcast feed of choice!  Til next time, Go Heels!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In our latest episode of the “What in Tar Nation” podcast, Brandon Anderson joins me to discuss points of interest such as:  Sam Howell getting reps with the first team and the likelihood that he’ll be the starting quarterback for the team’s first game against South CarolinaLate Night With Roy being announced for September 27th, the same weekend as the game against Clemson, and how it’ll be a hot bed for recruiting for both coachesExpectations running wild in both directions for Cole Anthony. Will he be better than Coby? Are people being needlessly down on him, or is that just the nature of freshmen point guards?KJ Smith being the newest recipient of a scholarship from Roy Williams To make sure you don’t miss further iterations of our show, and to show us you care, please consider subscribing to us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your podcast application machine of choice. Leaving us a five-star review would also make us feel very warm and fuzzy, and make me less conscious about my podcast hosting abilities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Don’t Punt to Gio is BACK, as Chad Floyd (@Chad_Floyd) is joined by Jake Lawrence (@therealestRJL) to break down the 2019 Carolina roster. Discussed are the following: The utilization of the three QB’s despite today’s Howell news;Inexperience and upside in the receiving corps;An offensive line with a concerning amount of moving parts;Three good running backs, representing the only thing in which we’re confident;Breaking down questions about the defense, and the importance of Aaron Crawford and Jason Strowbridge. We hope you enjoy it so much that you go ahead and take the plunge. Just to click subscribe on your podcast app of choice and leave us a 5-star review, which Chad will read on air. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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? Remember to subscribe to the podcast through your favorite podcast app, and if you like what you hear, be sure to leave us a five-star review! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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

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.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices