Welcome in to another Inside the Lines.

I'm Tommy, actually.

That is Grace Nugent.

As always, we are sponsored by Johnny T-shirt and Johnny T-shirt.com, Carolina and Virginia this weekend,

Bossomers Stadium.

Grace, a huge series for North Carolina.

Obviously the first ACC series for both teams.

Virginia's looks very different, but yet they look very familiar, as we've already talked about,

in previous discussions about them. But this is a North Carolina team that needs to get out to a

fast start in ACC's play. Last year, did not go well. But your first take, when you look at this

series and look at Virginia coming into Chapel Hill.

I really like that they have a difficult opening ACC series. I know that there's not a lot that

they can do about that. And Stanford turned into a very difficult one, a wake-up call for that team.

If you haven't listened to my thoughts on the Stanford series, it's very much that Jason and

Carrow got a little bit rocked, and I think the entire team didn't really know how to handle that.

And then they didn't really settle down again until Jake Knapp took over on Friday.

I was like, hold on, I'm going to set the tone and calm you guys down.

So this is a big early test for this team,

especially because there are seven former Blue Devils on this UVA team. We've joked a little bit.

Are they the Duke Cavaliers, the Virginia Blue Devils? Chris Pollard is now the head coach going from Duke to

UVA as UVA's coach went down to Mississippi State and brought with him seven players.

And a lot of them are seven of his best players.

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