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Posted Oct 24, 2006

Ronnie McGill: "It was a big shock thing. Nobody really expected it to happen. We were just getting ready to talk about what we were going to do against Wake Forest. Then they broke the news for us. It kind of hurt, because we had been with the coaching staff for four years, and we went through ups and downs. Nobody really saw this happening right now during the middle of the season." (Inside Carolina)

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