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. Actually, 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 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 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 uh kicking off this

weekend a lot of big donors in town Notre Dame always travels well so it'll be a pretty full

crowd it'll be a good atmosphere they've got a lot of different things planned and so i think

there's going to be energy there and the team will have an opportunity to kind of feed off of that.

And in talking with the players this week, a lot of really referenced the fact that, hey, we're one and four.

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