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 Carolina

Notre Dame Saturday at 3.30 in Kenan Stadium.

Greg, I'll just start with you out of the gate. Notre Dame's tough. There's some question that

their quarterback, Wimbush, will play. We talk a little bit off the air. I think you probably will.

But your take overall on this game and Carolina

going into it, you know, I can't keep saying it's a must win because I think those days are

over. But it's a game North Carolina could sort of maybe get back on the map a little bit

if they could beat Notre Dame on national television your take yeah i think we're past the

the must win games just because i mean even before all these injuries popped up for north

carolina to get to a bowl game they needed some collection of wins against cow duke and georgia

tech maybe not all of them but at least say two of them and when you go some collection of wins against Cal Duke and Georgia Tech.

Maybe not all of them, but at least say two of them.

And when you go 0 for three in that stretch, that pretty much dooms you.

Then you add the injuries in, and this is not a must win.

But to your point, I think you're right.

There's going to be a good crowd.

In North Carolina has a big fundraiser kicking off this weekend.

A lot of big donors in town.

Notre Dame always travels well.

So it'll be a pretty full crowd.

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