This Week in UNC Baseball: The Grind Begins, ECU Series Looms | College Baseball

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🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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North Carolina head coach Scott Forbes joins Tommy Ashley to recap a solid opening weekend series and discuss what he and his coaching staff pull from sweeping Indiana. Forbes and Ashley go in depth beyond the scoreboard with what worked, what needs improving and how the pitching rotation and lineup continues to be a work in progress. The pair discuss the final sequence in the bottom of the ninth against the Hoosiers, the chaos of the play and how he and his staff managed the extra innings. The show closes with Coach Forbes speaking on transfer Erik Paulsen and the home run moment for the Massapequa, New York native. **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 Scott Forbes.
0:22.6	I'm Tommy Ashley.
0:23.5	That is Scott Forbes on your screen.
0:26.4	No grace Nugent.
0:28.0	Students have to go to class in Chapel Hill.
0:30.9	So her questions will be felt perhaps as we go along.
0:35.9	Shout out Johnny T-shirt and inside carolina.com.
0:39.0	Coach Forbes, you've had time to sort of marinate on the season sweep to open on the way it ended.
0:45.5	I mean, I don't know if you can get two more different games than you had on Saturday,
0:49.8	but what's one thing or a couple of things that you as a coaching staff have reviewed and really
0:55.3	like that maybe the everyday fan wouldn't notice?
1:00.0	Ooh, that we really liked.
1:01.9	Number one, we've won three games.
1:04.0	So that is the obvious.
1:06.2	It doesn't matter how you win them.
1:07.5	If you win them, you win them.
1:09.0	And the goal is to win the game.
1:11.8	I felt like, you know, I would say we met as a staff just a while ago. One thing that we
1:16.1	definitely liked was fundamentally for the most part, our guys were pretty sound. You know,
1:24.8	we go back and watch the 90s, watch the turns, watch the leads on the
1:29.1	bases offensively, watch the setups defensively. So there goes, you know, that is from the
1:35.8	coach's view of being ready for every pitch, not taking the pitch off, which we harp on and
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