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UM assistant Ron Dugans welcomed top-notch recruits -- and a baby -- ahead of National Signing Day

Ron Dugans has been coaching long enough to know the drill. His wife, Yasheka Dugans, knows it too.

When National Signing Day looms, it’s pretty much all hands on deck for coaches and their families.

There are prospects making campus visits. Trips to take. Countless phone calls and texts to answer.

Throw in the fact there’s a baby on the way, like the Dugans had this year, and it can be pretty hectic.

“I haven’t been getting much sleep,” a bleary-eyed but smiling Dugans said last week.

Eight days before the Hurricanes inked one of their better recruiting classes in recent years last Wednesday, the Dugans welcomed their fourth child and first son, Ron Dugans, Jr.