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, joined by Ross Martin and Greg Barnes.

And Greg, we talked a little bit off the air about what we're going to talk about, as we always do.

And I don't want to say this is a big game for North Carolina, A, because Buck will give me a hard time, B, because we're way beyond that.

But it really is when you look at the history of North Carolina football and what this season is staring down

in terms of losses, your take on that?

Yeah, absolutely.

And I think the fact that some people will look at it and say, well, a losing season is a losing season.

It doesn't matter how you spin it.

That's a negative notation.

But I think if you look back at 2014, for example,

North Carolina had a losing season. It was the first losing season that Larry Fadour has ever

had. But you look at it, say, well, you know, they had one of the worst defenses in school

history. They did finish the season with a 500 record.

They were eligible for a bowl game.

And so you can kind of pull some positives out of that.

And a lot of people make a big deal about, you know, Notre Dame last year.

They went four and eight.

It's kind of a disaster.

But you're talking about, okay, well, you start looking at how they lost some games,

a lot of very close losses. And say, well, if start looking at how they lost some games, a lot of very close losses.

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