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I'm joined by Buck Sanders of Inside Carolina,

and we are very happy to welcome on UNC's defensive coordinator entering his second year in North Carolina, Jay Bateman.

What's going on, Coach?

Just enjoying some time down, away from recruiting and getting ready to start spring ball.

Awesome. I'll turn it right over to Buck for our first question.

Coach, I'm going to cut right to the heart of it. Everybody knows that North Carolina lost a couple of really good players on the interior.

Defense of the line is always a good place to start talking anyway, but tell us about, you know,

what the spring is going to look like for the defensive line and your plans for next year.

Sure.

You know, obviously, Jason's Forb is a really, really good player. I mean, I'm, I'm

excited to see his future. I think he had a really good, you know, senior bowl. I think he's

working out really good. I talk to him pretty frequently. So, man, I don't know if you just say,

well, gosh, we're going to plug this guy in and replace Jason. So it's going to be a number of kids.

But, you know, I thought at the end of the season,

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