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This Week in UNC Baseball: It's Time - Diamond Heels Open Season vs Indiana | College Baseball

Inside Carolina: A UNC athletics podcast

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🗓️ 11 February 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

North Carolina's baseball season opens on Friday with Indiana coming to Boshamer Stadium for a three game series - the first time the Tar Heels and Hoosiers have met on the diamond. Inside Carolina's Grace Nugent and Tommy Ashley spoke with UNC head coach Scott Forbes to discuss opening day and the lead up to the 2026 season. Forbes breaks down his process on lineup and pitching rotation decisions as well as the impact matchups have on those decisions, especially regarding certain positions on the field and in the rotation. Finally, Forbes shares his memories of great moments in Carolina Baseball history, reliving the Chad Flack walkoff down in Alabama and Vance Honeycutt's shot that beat West Virginia in Boshamer two years ago. **Call to Action:**   **Subscribe:** Follow 'Inside Carolina' wherever you get your podcasts to never miss an episode!   **Review:** Leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to help us reach more Tar Heel fans!   **Visit:** Explore http://www.InsideCarolina.com for breaking news, recruiting updates, and expert commentary on all things UNC sports. This show is brought to you by Inside Carolina, the No. 1 site for UNC sports coverage and community. Visit http://www.InsideCarolina.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Welcome in to another this week in UNC baseball with head coach Scott Forbes. It is game week,

0:06.5

finally, Carolina, Indiana in Bostomer Stadium starting Friday at 4 p.m. That's Grace Nugent. I'm, of course,

0:13.9

Tommy Ashley, and the man in the middle, is Scott Forbes. Johnny T-shirt, Johnny T-shirt.com.

0:20.1

Coach Forbes game week. Is it busy on game week,

0:24.4

or is it just another week with some games at the end of it? You know, I feel like it's never

0:29.4

just another week when it's opening, you know, day. There's, there's, uh, Coach Fox used to always

0:35.2

say that was way back even in North Carolina, Westland, try to keep this feeling all year.

0:39.7

You know, just the excitement of the week.

0:43.2

We practice this August 18th.

0:45.7

You know, baseball is unique from that standpoint.

0:47.8

We train, train, train, scrimmage, scrimmage, scrimmage,

0:50.2

go on for Christmas break, come back and do the same thing,

0:52.8

and you probably get to play somebody else.

0:56.0

I'm excited too because we're one team instead of playing each other the whole time.

1:00.6

You know, I only have to coach third for one team.

1:03.4

Coach Gaines only has to call pitches for one team.

1:06.1

I remember being a pitching coach, you're exhausted after scrimmages because of calling the game for both sides.

1:13.5

So we're excited about that.

1:14.7

We're excited for our guys.

1:16.2

It is busy.

1:17.2

Really, it's busier just from the standpoint from the head coach and just standpoint,

1:21.5

meeting with Dave and Carter and Daniel, just making sure everybody that, you know, former players, supporters,

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