The great ones truly make you want to be great too.
North Carolina’s Drake Maye spoke to this on “The Dan Patrick Show” Wednesday while talking about how meeting Michael Jordan helped him commit to play football at North Carolina instead of Alabama.
“I have met MJ…I met him at halftime of one of the basketball games. I was getting recruited…Getting to meet him was pretty sweet,” Maye said.
Drake Maye discussed meeting Michael Jordan on his recruiting visit to North Carolina and decommitting from Alabama. pic.twitter.com/HxdbJW1jXZ
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Imagine having to call Nick Saban, arguably the greatest college coach ever, to tell him that you are picking Michael Jordan over him.
In the end, Saban probably understood where Maye was coming from.
The only wrong decision that Maye could’ve made was not choosing any of those schools.
He chose to go play for another national champion head coach in Mack Brown and turned out to be one of the school’s best-ever quarterbacks.
The 2022 ACC Player of the Year and multi-time All-ACC performer finished his North Carolina career ranked 5th in school history in passing yards (8,018) and 4th in passing touchdowns (63).
For comparison, Michael Jordan got his No. 23 jersey retired in Chapel Hill after winning the ACC Player of the Year in 1984, winning a national title in 1982, being named the National College Player of the Year (1984), and being named an All-American twice (1983-1984).
Luckily, they both played for the same school, so they are on the same side.
Now, Maye will look to do what Jordan did at his professional level.
Becoming the greatest player ever is a lofty goal, but perhaps Maye has that in him.
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