Welcome in the IC Daily for Thursday, May the 21st.

I'm Tommy.

Ashley, that's Greg Barnes.

Shout out Johnny T-shirt as always. Johnny T-shirt.com. Go to Inside Carolina sign up for premium memberships. It's worth its weight. In the pennies you'll spend to be a member of the Inside Carolina community. Greg, we've talked about a lot of different things. is technically,, quote, unquote, the offseason for the big

sports, but a lot of news continues to circulate. And this time, it's the Diamond Cup. Carolina

basketball could be involved in a heck of a blue blood tournament, if you want to call it that way.

Looking at the schedules for these other teams, I'm not sure how it fits in with all of those,

but certainly, Greg,

if something like this could come to pass or will come to pass,

it'll certainly ramp up North Carolina's attractiveness on the schedule

as we've talked about how even this coming years is not great,

but the Diamond Cup, in your opinion.

Yeah, we've talked so much about the multi-team events, the MTEs, over the years.

That's kind of been the basis, kind of the cornerstone of non-conference scheduling,

and that's hell true for for North Carolina.

And in this new modern era that we're in, where it's all about revenue generation,

the Carolina officials are coming around to the understanding that everything has got to be based on that aspect,

generating funds.

And I think the fan base is going to have to get there as well.

And it's easier said than done, of course.

But if you, you know, you just go back 15 years, 20 years, we knew what Roy Williams wanted to do in terms of scheduling, right?

I mean, he wanted to go somewhere where there was a beach where he could get his toes in

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