So far off base with all of this. Sure, parents may love Mack, but to a recruit, the parents absolutely love Doeren and Clawson as well. And Cutt for that matter. The competition just from in state coaches in night and day compared to the last time Mack was at NCSU. As for "cutting off Doerens in state pipeline" what a joke. For one, it's not like Doeren has some stranglehold on the state like the NCSU marketing team likes to project. Yea, NCSU lands a lot of NC kids but if we get 3 or more of the top 10 kids its a hell of a year for State. Last year was an excellent in state year for NCSU due to the Hat being a dead man walking. NCSU still only got 3 of the top 10 with 5 guys going OOS. UNC got 2. Exact same story happened in the 2018 class. NCSU got 3 of top 10, 2 to UNC, 5 OOS. The UNC hype machine want's people to believe that it was some abnormal cycle the last few years with the Hat couldn't keep up with NCSU etc but really, UNC recruited well as they normally do. Mack is going to recruit well, and NCSU is going to continue to land 2-3 of the top 10 just as Doeren has done since he's been on the job. The thing he continues to do well is develop the kids he lands ranked 15-35 in the state. Doeren and Mack both have questions as far as game day coaching goes IMO but Doeren is at least trying to address it. Like what he has done on defense, don't love what he has done on offense with dual OC's but we shall see. None of the UNC hires jump out to me as anything to be scared of and game day coaching has always been Mack's problem.
As for recruiting where all of this started, State and UNC both have 1 top 10 NC kid this year, and in the end, about 4 or 5 will stay in state, and the other half will go OOS, just like it happens every year. An expert in NC high school recruiting should have already known this though.