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I'm your host for this one, John Siegley, and I'm joined this morning by Inside Carolina's very own Greg Barnes.

Greg, how you doing on this early Thursday, man?

I'm doing good, John.

Good to hear it.

Well, it was a busy day for UNC football yesterday.

Mack Brown had his pre-camp PC and then also took the media on a facility tour of the brand new renovated locker rooms, the weight room,

a lot going on, and it is all on the inside Carolina tarpit premium message board. We're just going to kind of hit the highlights here.

So, Greg, beginning with the PC, you know, Mack Brown just talked to the media there for the ACC kickoff down in Charlotte.

So when you guys were hearing from him today, you know, did he really mention anything different?

Or was it kind of the same

message that he's been speaking about for a while now? Yeah, I think the point of the matter is that

everybody is ready for training camp to open, which it will this afternoon, and then for practice

to get underway on Friday. I think that's kind of the gist of it.

We've talked a lot about why he came back, how he came back, what he's learned since he's

been away, what he learned during the last couple of years at Texas, and then some

variety of kind of odds and ends.

We could talk for days with Mac about football in general and kind of his plans and those kind of things.

But I think really kind of my takeaway from the press conferences, we need some football here.

I think everybody is ready for it, both in the media and the fan base, and especially

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