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IC Daily: UNC's Belichick and Staff On the Clock

Inside Carolina: A UNC athletics podcast

Inside Carolina

Football, Sports, Baseball, Basketball

4.8778 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Inside Carolina's senior reporter Greg Barnes joins Tommy Ashley to discuss North Carolina's transfer portal work to date. UNC has landed quarterback Billy Edwards, Jr. and three more pieces on the offensive side of the ball and the work continues for a coaching staff trying to improve from a rough 2025. As Barnes and Ashley discuss, the narratives and rationale from the previous offseason are off the table as Bill Belichick and GM Michael Lombardi have been on campus for 13 months thus far. **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 the Inside Carolina Daily. I am Tommy Ashley. That's Greg Barnes.

0:04.6

We're sponsored by Johnny T-shirt.joney t-shirt.com. Greg, it is Monday, January the 5th.

0:09.7

We are already deep into the transfer portal, North Carolina football, has landed a few, the biggest name or the biggest impact so far as quarterback Billy Edwards Jr. Wake Forest by way of Maryland,

0:23.3

by way of Wisconsin, and now at Tar Hill. Greg, this is the name and this is the position

0:28.9

that everybody's been watching in the offseason or really not just the offseason, all season

0:34.5

at North Carolina was the quarterback position. Your take on Edwards, your take on the process to get him committed and sort of upgrade

0:44.0

that quarterback room desperately needed for North Carolina.

0:48.0

Yeah, and I think there's several parts of this.

0:50.3

Number one is with having so few guys in the quarterback room,

0:56.3

Carolina is probably looking at bringing in two guys. And anytime you can bring in a veteran

1:01.5

player who has logged a lot of snaps at the Power 5 level, Power 4 now, it's not a bad ad.

1:10.1

And I know a lot of people were hoping for somebody that was a splash edition.

1:15.6

But I think there's a lot of upside here.

1:17.6

I think he's going to bring a veteran voice to that position group.

1:24.0

He's got a good arm on him.

1:26.3

Do his numbers jump out off the page?

1:29.3

Probably not.

1:30.3

But he's put up some good numbers, and he's had some good games.

1:34.3

And I think he's a player that can provide some benefit to this roster.

1:39.3

When you talk about the cost involved with some of these high-end guys at quarterback,

1:45.7

and you're talking $5 to $6 million is the number of us being thrown around,

1:51.0

that's extreme and that's excessive.

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