IC Daily: Can Carolina Copy the Hoosier Blueprint?

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🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Two days after Indiana won the National Champions....in football....Inside Carolina senior reporter Greg Barnes and Tommy Ashley discuss the impact of the Hoosier run on schools like North Carolina. Can the Tar Heels and Bill Belichick replicate what Curt Cignetti and his coaching staff have done in the last two years and flip the UNC program into a winning powerhouse? Barnes and Ashley hit on the coaching vs talent debate and other aspects of production and potential. **Call to Action:** **Subscribe:** Follow 'Inside Carolina' wherever you get your podcasts to never miss an episode! **Review:** Leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to help us reach more Tar Heel fans! **Visit:** Explore http://www.InsideCarolina.com for breaking news, recruiting updates, and expert commentary on all things UNC sports. This show is brought to you by Inside Carolina, the No. 1 site for UNC sports coverage and community. Visit http://www.InsideCarolina.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	Welcome in to another Insight Carolina Daily. I'm Tommy Ashley. That's Greg Barnes. It's Wednesday, January 21st, and Greg, we're two days removed.
0:09.7	Incredibly that Indiana won the national championship football. I mean, I just cannot wrap my head around that Indiana, the worst program numbers-wise in college football just won the national
0:25.0	championship, sponsored by Johnny T-shirt, Johnny T-shirt.com.
0:29.8	Go to inside Carolina and sign up and read the message ports.
0:34.7	Greg, production over potential, we called this. Indiana embodies that 100%.
0:41.4	There is nothing left on the table for that program to do this season, this past season and
0:48.2	winning the national championship, something that North Carolina and Bill Belichick and staff
0:52.9	can certainly learn from, I think.
0:56.2	Yeah, first of all, hats off to Signetti and Indiana going 16 and 0.
1:01.7	And really, the most impressive thing to me, I mean, there's a bunch of impressive things.
1:06.7	The most impressive thing to me, though, is we've seen these Flash in the Pan type runs.
1:14.4	You know, TCU did it a few years ago where they got to the title game.
1:17.8	But when you really dive into some of those seasons, you know, they're winning some close games.
1:24.1	They're having some improbable play, some improbable luck, and they just make this magical run.
1:30.3	And it's fun and it's exciting.
1:32.3	But there's really no indication that, okay, well, clearly they're the best team in the country.
1:37.7	Like, they just had a lot of things fall their way.
1:41.4	No doubt, Indiana is the best team in the country.
1:44.4	But none, the way that they've handled things.
1:46.5	Brian Freeman,
1:47.1	who we've had on next level,
1:49.6	he runs BCF toys and he's the originator of FEI,
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