UNC Wrestling 2025-26 Season Preview w Coach Rob Koll

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🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Third-year North Carolina head coach Rob Koll joins Inside Carolina’s Tommy Ashley to preview the 2025-26 UNC Wrestling season. Koll highlights his journey back to UNC after winning the 1988 individual national championship and coaching Cornell and Stanford for three decades before Carolina came calling. UNC begins the season with a Blue/White scrimmage on October 25th ahead of the regular season start at the Salem (Va.) Southeast Open on November 2. **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	I'm
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0:07.0	Bhaar Welcome into another special Inside Carolina podcast.
0:32.7	We are doing the Olympic sports season previews.
0:36.6	If you've been paying attention, we've done all the
0:38.8	fall sports. Now we head into the winter versions with head coach Rob Cole of North Carolina
0:43.2	wrestling. Coach Cole, how are you doing this morning? I'm doing well. Thank you for having me on.
0:48.0	Absolutely. There is a lot of interest in your program. Third year going into the season,
0:56.3	has some success last year.
0:58.1	You came back to Carolina.
1:04.1	We talked a little bit off air, and we aged ourselves talking about way back in the 80s and your national championship as a North Carolina student athlete.
1:07.7	But just sort of explain to folks your journey to this point.
1:12.8	You've got a ton of experience at Cornell.
1:15.1	You came back to North Carolina.
1:16.6	How do we wind up today?
1:18.6	Rob Cole ended up at his third season, coaching his alma mater at North Carolina.
1:23.5	Well, I remember, I still remember leaving North Carolina.
1:26.8	I remember I was getting married. Oh, I was married. I was my, I was finishing up. I had one class. And back then you weren't, I was going to redshirt my seat my senior year because we were going to have a great team. But I was getting married the next year. And I remember thinking, you know, and then they changed the red shirt rules. And I just thought, you know what? I'm not going to, I'm not going to do that to my wife. And I went
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