IC Daily: Retention, Culture Building a Big Task for UNC Football

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🗓️ 18 December 2025

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North Carolina football's roster reconstruction is in full swing ahead of the transfer portal opening on January 2nd with the positional needs changing by the the day. Inside Carolina's Greg Barnes and Tommy Ashley discuss the latest transfer portal exits and the need for retention and continuity while Bill Belichick and his staff continue to implement their culture into the program's DNA. **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 the latest I see daily. I'm Tommy Ashley. That's Greg Barnes. Always Johnny T-shirt and always Johnny T-shirt.com. Go to insidecarolina.com. Sign up for your premium membership for a dollar. If you haven't already done it, it's a great way to get the latest updates on North Carolina football, basketball, baseball, and all the rest. And also you get the Greg Barnes Insight.
0:22.6	Today's insight, Greg, we're going to talk about retention.
0:26.3	The news on Wednesday of Tyler Thompson entering the portal,
0:30.6	local kid, a guy that produced last year for Bill Belichick
0:34.6	and the football program in the portal.
0:38.0	I have a problem with the lack of North Carolina players on this roster,
0:45.3	but that's a rant for another day, I suppose.
0:48.0	But the main thing is the retention that North Carolina needs to have
0:52.7	to build some culture in this football program in the portal era.
0:57.0	We know the portal is a big deal.
0:59.1	We know the portal in and out is a big deal.
1:01.0	But Greg, I think retention, more than anything, is the most important thing this offseason for North Carolina.
1:07.6	It's certainly a big deal.
1:09.0	And when you factor in how everything played out this past year
1:13.1	with regard to evaluation and stocking the roster I think it's more important to your point
1:20.5	this off season and what I mean by that is you know as Lombardi and Belichick have both referenced, they came in behind schedule,
1:30.8	and they really had to just put players on the roster from the winter portal session just to kind of get bodies.
1:41.2	And then it wasn't really until after the April session that they were able to start saying, okay, well, we know these guys aren't going to get bodies. And then it wasn't really until after the April session that they were able to
1:45.0	start saying, okay, well, we know these guys aren't going to work. Let's bring in these other guys.
1:50.4	And you end up with, you know, 70 plus new bodies. And it's just a challenge. And you're trying
1:57.3	to build a culture. You're trying to figure out, okay, we saw these kids on film.
2:03.5	We've had a little bit of communication with them through high school coaches and whatever other means.
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