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GoHeels Exclusive: Gillespie Talks Running Backs

Amid the changes that have occurred inside the Kenan Football Center this offseason, the North Carolina football team entered spring practice looking to develop depth and install the new offensive, defensive and special teams schemes.

Those were also a few of the priorities for the running backs. But as the only position group that has the same coach, Robert Gillespie, and returns a majority of its nucleus, Gillespie demanded a bit more from his players.

"I challenged those guys, 'I want one of you to pull away from the others and create some separation,'" he said.