Tar Heel Blog

1 week ago | tarheelblog.com | Brandon Anderson

Photo by Peyton Williams/Getty Images Going into the offseason for college football, my biggest hope was that Bill Belichick would do enough to get me excited about the program. The lowest hanging fruit in all of this is creating a roster that could compete, which certainly doesn’t seem like a tall ask in the transfer portal era. You got an increased budget compared to what Mack Brown had, so you can spend for good players, and we can see what happens from there. Simple, right?

1 week ago | tarheelblog.com | Brandon Anderson

Photo by Chris Leduc/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The NCAA transfer portal re-opens today for football, and the Tar Heels just got an unfortunate surprise: redshirt junior Beau Atkinson has decided to enter the portal off the heels of what was a pretty impressive 2024 campaign. This is a major blow to UNC’s roster considering the fact that the defensive line was already a work in progress.

1 week ago | tarheelblog.com | Matt Ferenchick

Photo by Eakin Howard/Getty Images In last week’s mid-week North Carolina Tar Heels baseball game, UNC brought their bats to the party, as they dropped 12 runs on the Elon Phoenix in a win. In theory, they were then set to face some stiffer competition when they hosted Wake Forest. However, the bats were still firing in quite an impressive way. Over the three games, Carolina scored 31 runs on their way to a sweep of the Demon Deacons. Let’s look back at how everything played out.

1 week ago | tarheelblog.com | Brandon Anderson

Robert Deutsch-Imagn Images Tonight has been an active night for the Tar Heels. First, it was announced that UNC was no longer recruiting BYU transfer Kanon Catchings, which ultimately led to him committing to Georgia. Now, former Alabama power forward Jarin Stevenson has committed to the Tar Heels, earning Hubert Davis yet another talented player in the transfer portal. If you aren’t super familiar with Alabama’s roster but you feel like you’ve heard Stevenson’s name before, there’s a reason.

1 week ago | tarheelblog.com | Matt Ferenchick

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images We’re almost nearly a month into the Major League Baseball season. Things there are obviously still way too early to draw any definitive conclusions about players or teams, you can start to get a hang of things. As you might expect for a program that’s generally been very good in recent decades, the North Carolina Tar Heels have a fair number of alumni currently in the big leagues.