Welcome to another podcast by Inside Carolina.com, the independent voice of UNC Sports, your home for Tar Heel football, basketball, and recruiting.

I'm your host, Tommy Ashley, joined by Greg Barnes and Jason Staples, and Greg, we will start our Thursday pregame podcast like we have

for the last several weeks injury list report came out now it's Michael Carter who goes down

Carolina's leading rusher just keeps building up Miami comes to town the hurricanes bring

their number eight ranking and undefeated season to Kenyon Stadium on Saturday.

Greg, it's another one of those games that, you know, on paper, certainly, Carolina doesn't have much shot, your take.

Yeah, definitely not.

When you consider that Michael Carter being on that injury list, I guess the good news is that

they have the same number of players out this week as they did last week is 21 both times,

but you're essentially replacing Jalen Dalton on the outlist with Carter.

And if you go back two weeks ago to Virginia, North Carolina had three explosive plays.

They aimed for 10 a game.

They had three.

And guess who accounted for all three of them?

Vickle Carter.

It wasn't Jalen Dalton.

It was not Jalen Dalton.

It was Michael Carter.

So for a team that is desperate for explosive plays to just take some pressure off

this offense, to not have a guy like Carter who has proven that he can provide a spark,

really is this kind of crippling.

And we know how bad the offensive line has played. We know that

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