From Pod World Headquarters, this is the Carolina Insider from Learfield.

We're back. Time for another edition of the Carolina Insider. It's the arena discussion edition of the show.

Jones and Adam here with you. We've got two great guests joining us today as we take another look at this

overriding discussion about the future home of Carolina basketball. And Adam, episode

three, we're deep diving into the student experience today. An important topic. So we've got

people who know this topic with us. We've got... Been a while since we've been students,

Adam. A couple years. So we decided to get some people who have a little more expertise than we do. We've got Carolina's, of course, incoming athletic director, Steve Newmark, is here. We've got incoming student body president. Devin Duncan is here. You will see him at the head of student body starting April 1st. That's right. Counting down. We're getting close to assuming the power all over the place around here. Guys, both of you, I guess, student seating has become an important issue. Why is it one of the key things that you're looking at as you consider the future of Carolina basketball? Sure, I'll jump in. First of all, thanks for having us. It's a privilege to be here. Always like coming in here in the museum and you guys don't work. Multi-function rooms. You guys don't work in the real world. You guys understand that. But I think, you know, for those who you are familiar with kind of where we are in the process of evaluating the arena situation,

I think you know that we've been looking at kind of a variety of different topics that impact

what's the right decision. And we've really coalesced around six strategic objectives that

I think most, if not all, the stakeholders have really embraced. And the first is to make sure

we have the premier basketball first arena in the country,

that we preserve the history and tradition of UNC basketball,

that we have an elite fan experience,

that we have best in class training facilities for our student athletes,

that we have revenue opportunities to ensure our competitive success.

And then the sixth is to improve student seating for maximum in-game impact.

And I think that's something near and dear to my heart.

I think we're all shaped by kind of our formative years and the experience we had.

I was privileged to be able to grow up here.

And our Michael Auditorium was kind of where I kind of shaped what what I thought of UNC basketball and it was the

student seating the student experience in there the volume that you would hear at every game that really

is important to me and we've talked about how we can ensure that we capture that in any new arena

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