Welcome to the Inside Carolina podcast. It is the day after brings the crew, first-time crew this year, certainly not the show we planned on recording.

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But the day after brings Buck Sanders and Jason Staples. And gentlemen, I'll get it out of

the way early. I'm tired. It has been a long 24 hours. Fun time in Blacksburg with some great

people, all except the three, three and a half hours that the

clock was running on the Tar Hills. Buck, I'll open with you first. We're going to break this

down as best as possible, and I don't want it to be a hot tape-filled show, but the loss is not

totally surprising. I've been around long enough to see these games plenty. It's how Carolina lost Saturday, or excuse me, Friday night in Blacksburg.

What do you think?

Well, I think you have a very good point in terms of, um, it was difficult not to get the

impression that Virginia Tech was the better prepared team.

They were just better prepared.

And that's coaching players, the whole nine yards.

When Virginia Tech went outside of their comfort zone and did some things differently than you typically expect a Fuente coached Virginia Tech team to do,

when was the last time you saw Justin Fuente holding onto the ball to the last second before he snapped it?

I mean, they they played keep away.

I don't think North Carolina was expecting that.

They did some things defensively, offensively.

Uh, they did some things differently that North Carolina wasn't prepared for and had no

in game answer for at least not until the second half.

They did make some adjustments in the second half, but Georgia Tech was, I mean,

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