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Inside Carolina: A UNC athletics podcast

Next Level: The UNC-Duke Rivalry with Will Blythe and Melvin Scott

Inside Carolina: A UNC athletics podcast

Inside Carolina

Sports, Baseball, Basketball, Football

4.8778 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Acclaimed author Will Blythe and former UNC guard Melvin Scott join Tommy Ashley and Greg Barnes ahead of Saturday's matchup between the Heels and Blue Devils to share their unique perspectives on the rivalry. Blythe wrote "To Hate Like This is to be Happy Forever" about the rivalry, which is now available as an audiobook. 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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Welcome into another edition of Inside Carolina's next level. I'm Tommy, Ashley. That's Greg

0:35.4

Barnes, and we've got two special guests. If you're

0:37.5

listening to this on the YouTube version, I know champion for North Carolina basketball.

1:06.3

And the other is Mr. Will Blythe.

1:09.1

Will has written a book several years ago, but it is still very relevant.

1:15.2

Melvin, let me ask you out of the gate, since I haven't talked to you before about it,

1:19.1

you obviously played in it, or a big part of it. Last year was probably the biggest game ever in it.

1:27.4

From a former player standpoint, how is this Carolina Duke rivalry changed for you being a guy that was in the arena versus now being a guy that's watching the game like the rest of us?

1:41.6

I think one thing that is the same, I'll never go over there to watch a game. So that will

1:47.2

always be from the comfort of my home. I'll never go over to Duke and watch it. I am taking my

1:53.3

oldest boy to the game on Saturday, so we'll be in there to watch that. I think that right before our eyes, I mean, I'm 41 years old now.

2:03.6

I never thought I see today.

2:06.6

You know it's coming, but you don't expect it so soon or whatever,

2:10.0

where there's no coach Kay.

2:12.9

There's no Dean Smith.

2:14.1

There's no coach Guthrush.

2:15.0

There's no coach Roy Williams in this rivalry. So I think it's happening before our eyes. We're going to see new villains, new good guys, bad guys. You know, everyone used to hate Christian Laytoner, the JG Reddicks, or whatever have you. But we're going to see new villains and new stars

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