Welcome to another podcast by Inside Carolina.com, the independent voice of UNC Sports,

your home for Tar Heel football, basketball, and recruiting.

I'm your host, Tommy.

You're actually joined by Don Callahan.

You're listening to the Inside Carolina podcast, Don Callahan, of course,

the recruiting guru for North Carolina, Christmas in February for you, Don. I know that you are

glad to have another one in the books. Yeah. I mean, for me, it's kind of, it's end of a very,

very long road. And it's kind of weird to kind of look back, see what

recruits we were tracking early on and no longer tracking. It feels like there were like five

classes ago. But it was a very interesting year with how everything transpired with the coaching

change and new recruits and guys who end up signing with North Carolina that weren't on the

that weren't on the map for North Carolina up until a few months ago.

So it's been a good time.

So just out of curiosity, when was the first time you heard about any of these North Carolina

signies?

And I don't mean anybody specifically, but like how long ago did you maybe hear of a 2019

guy that was a potential target for North Carolina?

Are you talking about the ones that signed today?

Yes.

So just in general.

And I know it's a weird question, but people always ask me, when does the 2019 class,

or when did that class start? When do you start working on that class? Oh, man. I mean, a few years

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