This Week in UNC Baseball: Strong Arms, Depth Power Tar Heels - Coach Bryant Gaines Joins

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🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

North Carolina's baseball season gets going with the Indiana Hoosiers coming to Boshamer for a three game series with Opening Day set for Friday, February 13th. The Diamond Heels return a veteran deep pitching staff with enough talent and experience to replace National Pitcher of the Year Jake Knapp with arms that have produced at the highest levels of the sport. Jason DeCaro, Ryan Lynch and Folger Boaz are in line to be the weekend starters with Matthew Matthijs and Walker McDuffie highlighting the bullpen. Associate Head Coach / Pitching Coach Bryant Gaines joins Tommy Ashley and Grace Nugent for a wide ranging discussion of those strong arms and how the North Carolina coaching staff built the group that looks to carry the Heels deep into the postseason. Following the interview, Ashley and Nugent go Inside the Lines for their takeaways from UNC's Media Day that was held on Tuesday. **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 to this week in UNC baseball. Normally we have head coach Scott Forbes on the show,
0:05.6	but Grace and I today had an opportunity to talk to associate head coach and pitching coach,
0:10.7	Bryant Gaines. Gaines will join us to talk about his complete pitching staff,
0:15.7	highlighting the stars, the returning veterans, and the depth that this coaching staff has to work with on the mound.
0:24.4	Following the interview with Coach Gaines, Grace and I will get together for Inside the lines here on the audio version.
0:30.6	So make sure you stick through the end of the Coach Gaines interview and tune in to Grace and me discussing Media Day and our observations
0:38.8	from Media Day that was held in Chapel Hill on Tuesday, February to 3rd.
0:44.2	Hope you enjoyed the show.
0:45.4	As always, subscribe to this podcast, rate, review, and all the good things.
0:49.8	And join us over at Inside Carolina on the Diamond Hills message boards to talk about it all.
0:54.7	Welcome in to this week in UNC baseball.
0:57.4	I'm Tommy.
0:57.8	Actually, that's Grace Nugent.
0:59.4	Sponsed by Johnny T-shirt.
1:00.6	Johnny T-shirt.com.
1:01.6	As always, go to Inside Carolina, sign up for your premium membership because Grace Nugent will be dropping her insights.
1:09.6	And they are worth every penny on the message boards
1:13.7	on the website because baseball season started. Of course, the man in the middle is not Scott Forbes.
1:19.4	It is Coach Bryant-Gaines. Obviously, coach, I'll just get into it because everybody wants to know about pitching it seems and from the
1:30.2	outside looking in it appears that your squad and your pin and your starters are loaded
1:36.3	when you come in to practice every day what makes you believe that well know that we have ability, and that's always a good
1:47.9	thing when you're getting ready to start a season. You want to feel like if you're getting
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