Tommy Thigpen Q&A: This Year's Team
Posted Aug 1, 2018
This is part two of an interview with former UNC linebacker and coach Tommy Thigpen, who has returned to UNC as an assistant football coach mentoring the safeties. "What do I like about this team? This team has so many good defensive linemen from Jalen Dalton, Jason Strowbridge, Aaron Crawford, Malik Carney. We have an all-SEC defensive line here."
(Inside Carolina)
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