They no doubt promised him plenty of playing time. Not far behind that item you can be sure he was given a view of the network of unc connections. chapel hill has always been an ease sell, certainly much easier than State and much of that has to do with long term name recognition.
FYI: there is no sleeping giant in North Carolina concerning college football. Living as I do in Georgia and sitting in seats held by the in laws since the 1950s at UGA (35 yard line, opposite end of the train tracks, 15 rows back), the mountain is too high to climb for any NC school to stay good for very long. The potential fan base is too diluted, the exposure for talent too limited, the stadiums too small, and the casual fans simply will not stay with a team that MIGHT be a 8 to 9 win team every 6 years. unc beat this trend in the 90s by having the state title games in high school football moved to chapel hill and creating a false degree program.
Trim NC down to 2 or 3 D1 schools and I could see the talent level rise but that is not going to happen.
As always I expect State to be State; ignoring the fans, missing opportunities to jump unc, Clemson, and Tennessee and always putting on a cheap display at the stadium. The folks that follow State are GRADUATES of the school. Get outside of NC and you will understand the hurdle that any State coach faces.
McCallum
*lifetime of seeing it in action so if any millennial generation nerds or Buzzy Correl suck UPS don’t like it, stick it.
