Maye Chuckles At Rumors, Says UNC is the Only Place for Him

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CHARLOTTE – Drake Maye quarterbacking another college football team aside from North Carolina?

Get outta here!

That’s what Maye says, and he also maintains it was never a possibility.

Of course, Pittsburgh Coach Par Narduzzi said last winter Maye was offered up to $5 million by two different schools to flip to them from UNC. It didn’t work, if it even happened.

“I think the best thing about the way we handled it is that none of them reached out to me,” Maye said Thursday at the ACC Kickoff. “Some contacted my high school coach. I love North Carolina; that’s the main thing.

“There were a lot of stories, a lot of rumors going around that some schools contacted me. I never talked to anybody. I wouldn’t do that. So, I think I love playing quarterback at my dream school would pass that up and it really for me wasn’t really a question.”

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The dollar figure Maye could have earned had he jumped into the transfer portal likely would have reached the figure Narduzzi was throwing out there, and it’s even possible some third-tier back-channeling included absurd amounts of money being discussed.

But not on the Maye side of things. He was never leaving.

In fact, when news broke that former offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Phil Longo was leaving for Wisconsin, Maye went into UNC Coach Mack Brown’s office and assured him he wasn’t going anywhere. Maye then played an active role in Carolina finding Longo’s replacement.

Maye reiterated a couple of times he was never in the mix to move on, and while internet chaos ensued about his future, Maye was helping Brown find the next OC/QB coach..

“I wasn’t really in any contact with any college, and I didn’t want to be,” he said. “That’s not representative of who I am and what this university means to me. If anything would have happened, and I didn’t plan on it, because this is my dream school and I love playing quarterback at the University of North Carolina, I would have went to Coach Brown and handled it the right way.”

As a redshirt freshman last season for the Tar Heels, the 6-foot-5 Maye completed 66.2 percent of his pass attempts for 4,321 yards, 38 touchdowns and just seven interceptions. He also ran the ball for 698 yards, which includes yardage lost being sacked 40 times, and scored seven more touchdowns.

He was named ACC Player of the Year and led UNC to the Coastal Division title and spot in the ACC championship game opposite Clemson. The Heels’ nine victories was their second most since Brown left for Texas following the 1997 season.

So naturally, poachers were interested, particularly with Maye playing at a school that struggles finding room in the national spotlight. But Maye is a legacy at Carolina. His father quarterbacked the Tar Heels in the 1980s, and Luke, his older brother, was the South Regional Most Outstanding Player for UNC’s men’s basketball team n 2017, hitting a game-winning shot that sent the Heels to the Final Four. They won the national title that season, as well.

Again, Maye wasn’t going anywhere.

“I posted a social media post that I was staying, and I didn’t think I even needed that,” he said, smiling. “I thought people would figure it out on their own.”

If they didn’t believe him then, they do now.