Welcome in to another Inside Kelana podcast.

I don't know whether to call this an IC daily or next level or whatever, but that is Greg Barnes.

He is in Charlotte.

It has been a long day in Charlotte.

I've done it before.

We did it last year, Greg.

Just to get us started here, ACC kickoff, used to be ACC Operation Football, whatever they call it now. It is the

official start of the ACC football season. But last year, Greg, when you and I were there,

it was like a circus. It was unbelievable. Bill Belichette was a Pied Piper and everybody was

following him around. How was it different this year?

Was it a different take, different mood, different folks there?

Or was it similar?

Yeah, I don't know that there was as many people here today.

Granted, today is the last day of the media days.

But I don't know that it was near as many people here as what we saw last year.

And granted, some of that may be that to your point, last year, I mean, there were media members lined up along the hallways with their cell phones out, getting pictures and video of Bill Belichick as he walked by. It was a spectacle unlike really what we've ever seen before at one of these events.

And that wasn't the case today. You still had some people taking note of when Belichick walked by. But some of that is the

newness is kind of gone, right? The freshness of it. And the other part of it is that there was a lot

of intrigue, I think, this time last year. Not that North Carolina would be an elite team automatically,

but that it was the potential because of Belichick and his resume.

And I think with how last season played out,

with all the fanfare and the hype and Carolina stumbling out of the gate

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