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IC Daily: Retention of Top Talent Key for UNC Success

Inside Carolina: A UNC athletics podcast

Inside Carolina

Football, Sports, Baseball, Basketball

4.8778 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Inside Carolina's senior reporter Greg Barnes joins Tommy Ashley to discuss the news that North Carolina wide receiver Jordan Shipp has re-signed with the Tar Heels. Barnes and Ashley discuss the importance of retention for team chemistry and cohesion in the portal era. UNC continues to fill the roster via the portal, but retaining Shipp, edge Melkart Abou-Jaoude, running back Demon June and Leroy Jackson as well as defensive back Jaiden Patterson and others will aid in the process of team building with another year of 50 plus roster additions. **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 Wednesday, January the 7th.

0:03.2

Ooh, time is flying in January and news is flying.

0:06.5

That's Greg Barnes, I'm trying to actually.

0:08.2

These I see Dailies come fast and furious.

0:10.7

And Greg, we can barely keep up with what's going on.

0:14.6

But I think a big topic for today we'll talk about everybody's talking about what's coming in,

0:21.6

who Belichick, Lombardi and staff are bringing in and i talked with jason staples about the quarterbacks and

0:26.3

all that but there's big news about who's staying melkart decided to stay the big news last night

0:33.5

jordan ship has re-up with north carolina and he'll be back there's a couple others. It's not about who you miss. It's about who you have. And retaining

0:42.1

ship and Melkart and those guys is important. No doubt. And what you want to be able to do is

0:48.8

to bring back the key guys. Jordan Shipp clearly is probably the best player on the offensive side of the ball.

0:56.6

De Man June also in that mix for the potential that he has coming back, running back.

1:03.1

And then Abu Jowda clearly was the kid that popped into the year.

1:09.8

He had a little bit of a slow start, but once he got

1:12.1

going, he was dangerous. He had 27 pressures, the last six games, led the ACC, of course,

1:17.5

and sacks with 12. So we've talked about that. You know, when you have the portal set up,

1:25.2

and there's so much attrition, just by the nature of how it's how it is set up,

1:31.2

you're always going to lose guys and North Carolina has.

1:34.2

And some of those guys are people that maybe the staff wanted to depart.

1:42.3

And others may be guys that the staff wanted to keep around and it just didn't

1:45.5

work out that they would they would stay in chapel hill um but when you've got guys like

1:51.3

melchard and jordan and uh deman june and jane patterson these are guys who uh understand what the

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