Special Inside Carolina this week in UNC. I'm Tommy Ashley, as always. That's Grace Nugent. We're sponsored by Johnny T-shirt and Johnny T-shirt.com. And please go to insidecarolina.com, sign up for your premium membership because you're going to need it in this baseball season with Grace's work and our work covering the Tar Heels. Got a special guest. It's not Scott Forbes in in the middle it is scott jackson coach jackson

how you doing i'm great just excited for opening day appreciate you guys having me on yeah it has been

a we've been wanting to do this one for a long time because of the history you have with carolina

the history you have with coach for the history you have with Coach Forbes.

And so I'll just ask the question straight out.

Why come back?

Well, that's a great question.

I've asked, I've had that asked, you know, of me a lot.

You know, the game of baseball and just being around the right people is something that was just most important to me.

At that point in my career, I'm a North Carolinian. My wife's a teacher. She had several years in the state of North Carolina already. so we knew we would end up back here eventually,

you know, at some point so that she could get closer to her retirement. I wasn't sure what that looked like.

We, you know, we have a place down at Topsoil Island, so we kind of talked about that a little bit and bounced some things around.

Scott and I had always joked, seriously, seriously joked, however, you want to phrase that,

that we would coach together again someday.

And, you know, he approached me when he got the job.

The timing wasn't right for my family.

You know, and just quite frankly, my circle of people in my career, when he got the job, the timing wasn't right for my family.

You know, and just quite frankly, my circle of people in my career grows smaller, the older you get.

And so the people that I wanted to work with that I want to be around every day, they're

all in this building.

And so the opportunity to come back and be around Coach Wears,

Coach Howell, Coach Games, you know, Carter Hicks, Daniel Wilkerson, you know, the staff here

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