Maye threw for 4,115 yards and 35 touchdowns this year, leading UNC (9-4) to an ACC title game appearance and Holiday Bowl bid. In the wake of that breakout season, both UNC coach Mack Brown ("a whole lot of money") and Narduzzi indicated publicly that Maye had big-money offers from other schools. No one has named the schools, but Brown insinuated they were the school's that typically appear in the recruiting rankings. … "It wouldn't sit right, especially with all my family..." he said. "Switching it up after everything the Mayes went through wouldn't represent what the university means to me or how much it means for me to go there. It'd mess up the mojo and all we've built there. That Carolina blue is special. There's no other color in the world that meaningful." Maye's NIL deal with UNC's Heels4Life program includes monetary incentives and is also expected to have a charitable component. Maye said he has done work locally with the Ronald McDonald House and Table NC, which delivers healthy food to local children. He has interest in doing charity work in his home area of Charlotte. Sounds Teboesque. Rest of article. https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/35310820/transfer-talk-5m-nil-deals-all-rumors
I agree, but, without providing absolute proof, they would leave themselves open for a libel suit against them. It's much easier to make accusations and insinuations without naming names.
Maye himself says that while schools did indeed contact him, that the numbers being thrown out weren’t anywhere close to what was actually being offered. He says the whole thing was overblown and that no he would not name the schools. I think he (Maye) regrets the whole thing being discussed in public, and wishes it would all just go away. I think you are absolutely right … if you won’t or can’t (for legal reasons) disclose the offending schools, just handle it behind closed doors.
Uh no: "Brown insinuated they were the school's that typically appear in the recruiting rankings." and I'm assuming he meant "high" in the recruiting rankings because Carolina appears in them regularly too somewhere in the same neighborhood as us.
I agree with you on the aspect of tampering. However, we need to play the game in the playing field set before us or take our ball and go home. Fans are tired of being promised that we will do everything to be competitive with the top tier of college football and then watch half-hearted measures taken toward that goal. Do we want to be Vandy, revel in our academic standards, take the handful of TV cash and put the bare minimum into the fielding a team and program, or do we want to compete in the landscape we find ourselves in? I can guarantee teams like Bama, Georgia, Ohio St., etc. have made their choice and have zero qualms about it.
I can see your point, but on the one end, I don't want us to be like Vanderbilt, but on the other end, I don't want us to be like a Texas A & M. I would like us to be in a reasonable middle place given the situation.
Isn’t Michigan also taking the high road against the bidding wars? I don’t like them, but I’d rather see UF aligned with the likes of Michigan over Miami
Every team who’s ever had a top 10 recruiting class have given out bags. Most likely through associates not directly connected to the team. With NIL, you don’t have to hide anymore. You just find out what the player’s team is offering and you up the ante.
