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Welcome in to another edition of Inside Carolina's Next Level.

I'm Tommy Ashley.

We're sponsored by Johnny T-shirt.

Okay. on his next level. I'm course, a next level reporter,

former beat writer, just great all-around person, Greg Barnes. You know, as I was preparing for this podcast, and you're probably seeing this on Inside

Carolina on Tuesday, I'm watching Greg on just national podcasts or ACC Network football

podcast and just knocking it out of the box.

But today I bring you in, Greg, because we're going to talk money.

A lot of it. Maybe not enough of it, but a lot of it. What you've been up to the last few days

digging through these financials. Tommy, I'm blushing with that introduction. Yeah,

it's really been a last couple months, last six weeks, I guess, of just a crazy amount of financials, not just in the North Carolina's NCAA financial report, which is what we're going to talk about today primarily, but also with conference distributions through meteorites and how that factors in with the SEC and the

Big Ten, you know, as that compares to the ACC and in what Carolina is trying to do as it moves ahead

and trying to make sure all the opportunities financially are there on the table for for the tar hills so it has

been a lot of a lot of math involved i'm a writer by trade so it's been a it's been a challenge

yeah when you start talking math if i can't put it in the calculator i can can't comprehend it. And I hate I may have passed that

down to my children as well. But Greg, let's sort of set the stage here. We've done this podcast

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