Welcome to another podcast by Inside Carolina.com, the independent voice of UNC Sports,

your home for Tar Heel football, basketball, and recruiting.

I'm your host, Tommy Ashley.

I'm joined by Greg Barnes.

Of course, you know him as I see his beatwriter.

And today we've got Taylor Vipolis. And Taylor, I'll go ahead and start with you and get right in it, man.

Your former player, very close to a lot of guys still on the team, a lot of guys that have graduated.

Tell me from personal experience what this week is like as a player.

These guys have beat on each other for months now, and now they're getting ready to play that first game. Just speak to that. Speak to what it's like

prepping for that first game. Yeah, it's a lot of nerves building up, but you're just ready to see

somebody in another color jersey. You've put in a ton of

work ever since that Stanford game ended. You know, you have Blue Dawn, you had the summer

challenge, all these workouts with Coach Liu and his staff, and just getting you prepared for the games.

And now it's now the actual, the fun part of the seasons here.

And you get the chance to go out in front of Keenan Stadium and hopefully win some games.

Let me ask you this.

A lot has talked about the offensive inexperience this year.

I think the stat is 96% or something crazy of

offensive production lost. And I think maybe three and a half of what's returning is

Austin Pro. So how different is this, in your opinion, for Larry Fedador and his staff? I mean, we always talk about

his offense. This is a different ball game with so much loss. Speak to that and speak to what

you've seen thus far in preseason camp and now in game week as the offense tries to get it

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