Drake Maye had the best touchdown this season. There is a time and a place for it.
Maye was unsure if he would win the starting job at the school. He has become the face of the free market in college football and is projected to be a top NFL draft pick in four years time.
Maye reflected on the past few weeks, which included a social media post declaring he was staying at UNC as a way to fight rumors of him entering the transfer portal. Pat Narduzzi said this week that two schools offered Maye $5 million to go somewhere else.
He said that the rumors were not real. The coach ofPitt put that out there. I'm not sure what that was about. To talk to these schools, you have to enter the transfer portal. College football is going to become a mess for me. They need to do something. There was no direct offer from any of the other schools. There was no offer to the Mayes.
Maye had big-money offers from other schools, according to UNC coach Mack Brown and Rutgers coach Pat Narduzzi. No one has named the schools, but Brown implied they were the schools that usually appear in the recruiting rankings.
Maye denied that he and his family received any offers from other schools.
Maye said that he heard of outside interest through the grapevine. He said that some people were texting his coach about it. People reached out to some of my representatives.
Maye's family is from UNC. One of the most famous shots in UNC basketball history was hit by his brother, who graduated from there. Beau is a basketball walk-on at the University of North Carolina.
Maye said that UNC was the only school that gave him the same heartbeat feeling.
He said it wouldn't sit well with his family. It would not represent what the university means to me or how much it means for me to go there if it was changed after everything the Mayes went through. We've built everything there and it would ruin it. It is Carolina blue. There is only one color in the world that matters.
Mark Maye was a quarterback for the UNC football team under Mack Brown. Mark Maye said the family never discussed Drake leaving UNC, even though there was a lot of rumors.
He wanted to be in North Carolina. He didn't mention anything about wanting to see what's out there.
Money and a charitable component are expected in Maye's NIL deal with UNC. The Ronald McDonald House and Table NC deliver healthy food to local children. He would like to do charity work in his hometown of Charlotte.
Maye told Graham that deals be made for his teammates. He said the deal with the Maye was more of an offer of support to him.
We had to make sure that UNC was the best place for him. We wanted to make sure he didn't want to leave. He turned down a lot of money. Heels4life stepped up with a fair amount.
Maye said that he loved UNC.
He thinks money is a reason why kids go places. "Wherever I'm playing at and with and for, Coach Brown, just that Carolina blue outweighs the money part of it." I don't think a lot of money from a particular school sways me. People are signing for something. The kids are put under a lot of pressure. It wouldn't be the same if I were to leave.
One of the most anticipated seasons in years will be Maye's return, as he has a chance to become the program's first No. 1 overall draft pick. There will be a debate between Maye and Williams for the top spot in the NFL draft in 2024.
The UNC expects to return 17 of 22 starters. Heels4Life sees retaining Maye and delivering deals to his teammates as a way to take advantage of the good fortune. UNC has been on the verge of being a national program a number of times in the past. He said that Drake has renewed interest from the fan base.
After Phil Longo left Chapel Hill for Wisconsin, Brown made him an active part of the search for a new offensive coach. Maye said he was contacted by multiple candidates for the job, and that he got on a phone call with one of them.
He thinks that Lindsey's run game will help bolster UNC's red zone effectiveness. In red zone touchdown scoring, UNC is ranked 58th. He is excited that Lindsey has worked to develop quarterbacks at previous stops.
Maye said it had been a blast to get to know him. He seems great.
Maye put out a post on his social media account in December to say that he was coming back. He chuckled as he summed up the last month.
Not a lot went down, he said. A head coach said he turned down a large amount of money that he had never heard of. That's the whole thing.
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