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Grayson McCall's chance to rewrite his ending at NC State

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RALEIGH, N.C. -- It was a late December morning, more or less like any other for Grayson McCall, except on this day, he awoke with the urge to destroy something beautiful.

A couple weeks earlier, he had committed to NC State after spending five years at Coastal Carolina, saddling up for one last rodeo as a college football quarterback at a bigger school, on a bigger stage. That lit the fuse.

For the past few years -- effectively as long as anyone outside of his hometown of Indian Trail, North Carolina, had known him -- McCall was branded as the swaggering, rollicking, beach bum quarterback of an upstart team from (just outside) Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.