IC Daily: Petrino, Talent and the UNC QB Room

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🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Inside Carolina's senior reporter Greg Barnes joins Tommy Ashley for a discussion of what's next for North Carolina after Monday's announcement that long time college coach Bobby Petrino will be hired as UNC's offensive coordinator. The IC duo talks talent, the need for a stronger QB room and how expectations are now viewed going into 2026. **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 an IC Daily.
0:01.9	I'm Tommy Ashley.
0:02.7	That's Greg Barnes.
0:03.4	Always sponsored by Johnny T-shirt.
0:04.9	Johnny T-shirt.com.
0:07.2	Huge newsday on Monday.
0:09.6	Jason Staples and me did a live show reacting to Bobby Petrino hired as North Carolina's
0:15.0	offensive coordinator that sort of took the place of I.C.
0:18.2	Daily yesterday.
0:19.3	So today, Greg joins me back on stable ground.
0:24.1	Greg, it's been a hectic couple of days for North Carolina.
0:28.2	But the one thing about Petrino or any offensive coordinator is the need for talent.
0:33.0	In North Carolina, struggled in the talent department on the offensive side of the ball this year.
0:38.4	Obviously, Jordan Shipp is a huge piece of that to secure him and the need to secure him.
0:43.7	But the quarterback position is going to be important for any offense, especially a Petrino run offense.
0:50.6	Absolutely.
0:51.3	And I think one thing that we've talked about with Petrino is he's done a really good job over the years of really kind of keen down on what he has in place and then trying to maximize their their talents. And I don't know that we saw that this past year with Freddie Kitchens at OC in terms of how Gio Lopez was utilized.
1:14.3	There are plenty of games early in the season, especially, but I think we're all kind of scratching
1:19.0	our heads of like, this is a kid that can move, and he's probably better out of the pocket
1:24.0	than he is in the pocket.
1:25.9	And it seems like there was just an effort to get him to do
1:29.1	certain things that maybe he wasn't as comfortable with. Petrino is not that way. Petrino has a very
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