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Welcome to another podcast from insidecarolina.com, the independent voice of UNC Sports.

Brought to you byjani T-shirt.com, the go-to provider for all your tarheel gear.

In December of 2018, the winds of change had blown through Chapel Hill at Gale Forces.

Gone were Larry Fedora and his staff

and the sour feeling of a second straight bad season.

In their place were Mack Brown,

a new group of excited assistant coaches,

and the reliable sense of optimism

that springs up during an off-season.

But perhaps no single event during that period

signaled transformation more than the

day that Sam Howell decided to become a tar heel. I'm Joey Powell. And on this, the first episode

of a new insidecarolina.com podcast called The Backstory, we're going to examine the events that led

Sam Howell to go from a Florida State commitment to being the first true freshman to ever started quarterback in a season opener for the North Carolina football team.

A top 100 recruit in his class, Sam Howell had been a four-year starter at Sun Valley High School in Monroe, North Carolina. He did face a brief

battle for the starting quarterback role his freshman season, but he'd been the school's number

...