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Inside Carolina: A UNC athletics podcast

IC Daily: UNC's Quarterback Room Set

Inside Carolina: A UNC athletics podcast

Inside Carolina

Football, Sports, Baseball, Basketball

4.8778 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Greg Barnes and Tommy Ashley discuss North Carolina's quarterbacks and how the players in the room potentially fit into Bobby Petrino's offense and style of play calling. Barnes and Ashley also discuss the approach of Bill Belichick and Michael Lombardi in the transfer portal at the QB position and others with the knowledge that UNC has many roster holes to fill beyond just the signal caller. **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

Other I see daily, I'm Tommy Ashley.

0:01.7

That is Greg Barnes.

0:02.7

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0:06.3

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0:09.3

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0:11.2

It is worth its weight and gold this time of year.

0:14.2

For sure, every time of year, definitely.

0:17.9

Transfer Portal cooking, Carolina, seemingly, Greg, has completed its quarterback room with

0:23.5

Edwards O'Neill, Newkirk, and Travis Burgess incoming freshman. Greg, it seems like they've

0:29.0

definitely upgraded here. It's interesting to see where other guys wind up, but for Carolina,

0:34.4

it seems like Bobby Petrino, Bill Bel a chair. It's got what they want.

0:49.0

Yeah, I think the key part of that is that Bobby Petrino was part of these discussions with both Edwards and O'Nill.

0:56.5

Of course, everybody knows that Petrino is the one who recruited O'Nill to Texas A&M.

0:58.8

So certainly a familiarity there.

1:08.5

Petrino exited before O'Neill actually arrived on campus when the Mike Elko transition occurred.

1:11.5

So he didn't actually coach him in college station,

1:15.8

but the fact that he did handle the recruiting aspect of things speaks to what Petrino thinks he has with O'Neill.

1:19.7

He's a big kid, 65, I think 2.30, big arm.

1:24.6

And that's one of the things when you look at this position group room now,

1:29.8

I mean,

1:30.0

all these kids are big or have potential to be big.

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