Laborn Liked UNCs Staff

Fedora's Freak Show gives the UNC coaching staff a unique opportunity to coach and interact with some of the nation's top players.

It helped get Khalan Laborn on campus and that was a big deal. The Rivals100 to Watch, four-star rising junior is an elite running back from Virginia Beach (Va.) Ocean Lakes and he was fresh off an MVP performance at the Rivals100 Five-Star Challenge in Baltimore, Md.

At the Freak Show Mid-Atlantic analyst Adam Friedman ranked Laborn the No. 4 overall player in a stacked field.

Needless to say, he's a big-time player and UNC's coaches made the most of their opportunity with him on campus.

"I liked the coaches," Laborn said. "They were real straight up. They were excited for me to come. I talked to Coach Fedora and had a little conversation with him. And I talked to Coach (Larry) Porter a little bit. Coach Fedora just told me to think blue."

Laborn said he was happy to see five-star defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence in town.

"We first met at the Rivals Camp in Charlotte and we both won MVP there," Laborn said. "I saw him again at The Opening and he went to the Rivals Challenge with me."

While in Chapel Hill, the 2017 running back walked around the stadium and saw some of what the football program has to offer, although it wasn't exactly a formal tour in the sense that some players go around campus. This trip was more about the camp anyways.

"I felt like I did amazing," Laborn said. "I felt like I couldn't be guarded. I felt like I worked on my hands a little bit more than I did from the Five-Star Challenge."

With the Freak Show and Chapel Hill behind him for now, Laborn said Florida State, Tennessee and Ohio State plus "all the down south schools" are the next visits on the horizon. He said UNC impressed him and Florida, Florida State, Tennessee, Alabama and Auburn are other schools on his mind, although he doesn't have any favorites.