Don Callahan's State of Recruiting - Final Thoughts on the 2019 Class & Ray Grier Commitment

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🗓️ 11 February 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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North Carolina has officially wrapped up its 2019 recruiting class, with the final few uncommitted prospects making their college decisions last Wednesday. New Head Coach Mack Brown made it clear that his staff was only targeting a select few players for the February Signing Day, a strategy that paid off as the Heels received multiple commitments in the weeks between the December early signing day period and February. Ultimately, there was only one name still left on UNC’s recruiting board last Wednesday – four-star Virginia linebacker Eugene Asante, who signed for Carolina in the afternoon. His commitment capped off an incredible turnaround for the 2019 class as a whole, as Coach Brown was able to land a top-35 class from a group that was ranked in the 60’s when he took over. Inside Carolina’s recruiting expert Don Callahan joins Buck Sanders and host Jon Seiglie to give his final thoughts on the 2019 class a whole, look ahead to the 2020 recruiting cycle, and also discuss UNC’s latest verbal commitment – Ray Grier. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to another podcast by Inside Carolina.com, the independent voice of UNC Sports,
0:09.9	your home for Tar Heel football, basketball, and recruiting.
0:15.0	You are listening to the Inside Carolina podcast, John Siegley here with Don Callahan and Buck Sanders talking some
0:21.3	unisoned football recruiting. Guys, the February national Sunday period has come and gone,
0:26.5	although I guess it is still open right now for the few remaining guys that have not committed,
0:32.7	but the big event happened last Wednesday. Inside Carolina was at the Hickory Tavern and Carborough throwing its
0:39.9	annual party for the signing day. Don Buck, you guys were there. I unfortunately was not. You talked about
0:46.7	a little bit with Tommy Ashley and his podcast. But, you know, Donna, I think that the biggest waves that you
0:53.2	caused is when you talk to Tommy and, you know, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, to cover that up with, uh, with Buck a little bit off air, but, but, but I think we need to address it now because the masses are, are wondering, Dawn, has there been a betrayal here?
1:14.0	Wednesday was a blur for me. So, as I said, all fair. So, I mean, yes, I definitely, it was
1:19.9	definitely me. It was not just my voice. It was me with Tommy. And I don't even remember what I
1:26.3	said on that podcast, to be honest with you, just because so much went on on Wednesday for obvious reasons.
1:32.6	But I enjoyed, you know, Buck put on quite a party on Wednesday for the signing day, for the celebration.
1:41.4	And anyone who has never gone needs to really go next year because i think this
1:46.1	year i think it gets better every year so this past year was was the best year what's your secret buck
1:51.5	well i i listened to mrs buck mainly that's a good idea and put a lot of the organizational stuff in her hands.
2:04.4	And I do want to give a shout out to Johnny T-shirt.
2:07.2	They're always very, very good to us in terms of providing us some swag.
2:12.9	And they were there with their usual terrific support.
2:17.4	And it's, you know, it's just one of those things you do, you learn from, and then you improve on it.
2:24.4	We try to get better at what we do and everything we do at IC, which leads me to the question, Don, since Mac Brown has returned and recruiting has turned up a notch,
2:38.7	what do you plan to do to satisfy the masses that are going to be hungry for recruiting information from this point forward?
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