Noon Dish: UNC Defense Status Check

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🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Inside Carolina football recruiting expert Don Callahan joins Tommy Ashley for a status check and potential portal needs for the North Carolina defense. Callahan discusses the current roster along with incoming freshmen and how those two groups of talent blend to determine necessary additions once the portal opens in January. The discussion wraps with a quasi ranking of the strength of each position group on both sides of the ball currently. **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 into another inside Carolina noon dish.
0:23.1	I'm Tommy, actually.
0:23.9	That's Don Callahan.
0:25.6	We're sponsored by Johnny T-shirt.
0:27.4	Johnny T-shirt.com.
0:29.1	If you are not a member of the Inside Carolina community, now is the time to do it.
0:33.5	$1.
0:34.4	Gets you a month of premium Inside Carolina subscription,
0:37.4	which comes with a healthy dose of Don Callahan.
0:40.6	Grinning Don Callahan, there on the center of your stage.
0:44.4	Something else I did on the side is I threw the comments up so folks can see the comments in the chat as we're rolling.
0:53.1	I'm not sure how that's going to go. That could be either good thing or a bad thing. I'm going to have to be on my P's and Q's to keep the mess off of there. If there's anybody trying to clown, Eric Miller, just preemptively tells Don that it is aidan Duncanson that played ahead of Travis Burgess. I appreciate it. And so just to get that out of the way
1:12.9	giving him the chat MVP because he bailed me out again.
1:16.2	Yeah, so he's already won the chat MVP,
1:18.9	but today we're going to sort of talk about the defense.
1:21.5	If you remember last week, maybe two weeks ago,
1:24.0	two weeks ago we talked about the offensive or what was left on the North Carolina offense roster.
1:31.0	Today we'll talk about the defensive side of the ball.
1:33.4	Plenty of work to be done not only in recruiting, which we've seen in the 26th class,
1:38.2	but also the portal class that is going to have to be hefty.
1:42.6	Don, what's up?
1:46.8	Not much.
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