This Week in UNC Baseball w/Scott Forbes: Postseason Goals in Focus

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🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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After a long and grueling college baseball season, North Carolina readies for the NCAA Tournament with its season goals ahead of them. Head coach Scott Forbes joins Inside Carolina’s Tommy Ashley and Grace Nugent to discuss the aftermath of an ACC tournament title and how his team has moved on from the impressive weekend. Pitching decisions, mental approaches, focused preparation and fan support highlight the discussion. The Tar Heels play Holy Cross at noon on Friday while Oklahoma and Nebraska tangle in Friday’s second game, with all games this weekend in Boshamer Stadium. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	Welcome into another edition of Inside Carolinas this week in UNC Baseball. That's head coach Scott Forbes.
0:37.4	That's Grace Nugent, response to by Johnny T-shirt. Scott, we've seen you a lot over the last few days.
1:05.8	I wanted to ask you about the last few days.
1:08.7	Obviously a big win in the ACC tournament.
1:11.6	Given the way it's set up that you don't find out who you're playing, your situation in the NCAA tournament until Monday at noon,
1:19.6	do you let your players sort of revel in the win of the ACC tournament a little more than you normally would during the regular season or during the tournament
1:28.2	when you know who's next, when you know what's coming up next right away?
1:33.4	No, not really.
1:34.6	We just kind of go about our business the same way, no matter what, no matter who we're playing.
1:39.7	You know, obviously the challenge this week was, but we did have the same challenge the week before.
1:45.8	So we talked through that a little bit.
1:47.3	We didn't play NC State on Saturday.
1:50.5	And then we didn't play them on Sunday.
1:52.9	So Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
1:54.8	we went five days without playing.
1:58.0	And we just talked about how we can't use that as an excuse.
2:00.5	We're used to playing more games than that, but we're getting ready to go to FSU.
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