What I’m looking for at UNC’s Spring Game

Photo by Mark Brown/Getty ImagesWith so much happening with the men’s basketball program and the necessary length of time between the end of one football season and the start of the next, you’d be forgiven for letting UNC football slip your mind altogether recently. Spring practices are happening this year, which is a step up from last year, but honestly, a fan could read just about nothing about spring practices and not be missing a whole lot once the season rolled around. The exception, of course, is a program’s Spring Game, which doesn’t actually mean a whole lot but is the only taste of football action most of us get from January to September. The ACC is doing us a favor this year, and uploading entire Spring Games to their Youtube channel: Miami, Florida State, Clemson, and NC State have all played theirs, if you’re especially hungry. UNC will have theirs this Saturday, the 24th of April, and tickets reportedly sold out in under two hours, so if you weren’t one of the lucky few, either catching it live on ACC Network at 3 PM Eastern or watching the replay is going to be how you get to see it. Ahead of the game, though, I thought it’d be worth going over some storylines I’m hoping to see resolved, or at least gestured towards, this Saturday. Consider this an unofficial, modified Three Things to Watch, if you will. Anyways, let’s get to it:

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