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🗓️ 28 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in, I see daily for Thursday, May the 28th. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Tommy Ashley. |
| 0:06.0 | That's Greg Barnes, sponsored by Johnny T-shirt, Johnny T-shirt.com. |
| 0:10.0 | By the time you watch this, Carolina will be, you know, roughly 36 hours or less away from hosting the Chapel Hill Regional, Tennessee, East Carolina at noon on Friday, |
| 0:22.3 | Carolina VCU, scheduled tentatively for 5 p.m. We'll see if that time holds. But Greg, |
| 0:28.8 | one thing that's been a topic of a debate on message boards and it's really across the country |
| 0:34.5 | is when you get to tournament time, what do you do with your pitching |
| 0:38.3 | rotation? Do you keep it the same? Do you quote unquote hold the ace like the banner says at |
| 0:45.2 | the bottom or do you just, you know, wing it? And one thing we know, Scott Forbes doesn't wing |
| 0:50.6 | anything. There's always a plan. But overall, your thoughts here. I'm a little bit |
| 0:55.4 | of an old school guy and you go with what got you there, but let's talk about it. |
| 1:01.0 | I've always thought it's a fascinating conversation. And this is one, to your point, that we've |
| 1:07.0 | had not just locally for decades, but it's a national conversation. |
| 1:13.0 | And the interesting thing about the NCAAs is how the, you know, each round is completely |
| 1:19.1 | different. You know, you start backwards in Omaha and you've got a unique format where |
| 1:26.2 | you have two double elimination tournaments, |
| 1:28.8 | and then the winners of those go on to play in a best of three, |
| 1:32.2 | which is very similar to what you see, you know, |
| 1:35.1 | a typical three-game slate in the regular season. |
| 1:39.8 | And then you go to the Super Regionals, and that's the same way. |
| 1:43.2 | And it's essentially a three-game series that you may not have to play the third game. |
| 1:48.5 | So you know what your pitching rotation is going to look like in that setup. |
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