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This is Jonathan Siegley here with Don Callahan for the UNC Football Recruiting Update.

Don, how's it going today, man? Good. I have a house

full of kids. I guess I'm as good as you could possibly be underneath those sort of circumstances. How about you?

I'm doing all right. Certainly got a little bit less on my plate than that, but I appreciate you taking the time to still come on and provide the recruiting update.

Really just wanted to start this one off, Don.

I saw the article that you posted on Inside Carolina on the Tarpit Premium Message Board.

And it had to do with Peyton Wilson.

He's the four-star linebacker commit.

Obviously, a lot of Carolina fans by this point know that Payton opened up his recruitment to a degree,

I guess. He took that visit to NC State. He's supposed to take one to Notre Dame. But,

you know, without kind of spoiling the whole article, it seemed to me like you maybe got the

impression that Peyton is really just kind of weighing his options. So what can you say to kind of elaborate on that?

Well, it wasn't a whole lot of what he said. I mean, he said all the right things. So let me get that out there. He did say all the right things. But it was more kind of a feel I got from him. For example, we talked about, you know, what's going to happen in January.

So he was talking about as far as assuming that he's going to be at Carolina sort of thing.

Like he has that mentality that he's going to be at Carolina. When we were talking about, we also touched on his knee injury. And for those who haven't followed his recruitment too much

or his situation recently, he blew out his knee. i think it was a second to last game of his senior

season so he's obviously going to miss well his season ended this past friday they lost in the first round

he obviously is going to miss the shrine bowl and the u.s army all-american ball but when we were talking

about that i asked him i said so are you going to be able to do anything in spring practice and And he said, no, you know, when I go to Carolina, I'm going to be basically

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