A 29-year coaching veteran, Phil Longo has coached only one group of quarterbacks younger than the group he's now overseeing as North Carolina's offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.
The youngest group, he said, consisted of four true freshmen. This spring, he went through 15 practices with two redshirt freshmen, Cade Fortin and Jace Ruder, and one true freshman, Sam Howell. All three were challenged to compete and to try to separate themselves from the other two. But those weren't the biggest priorities.
"The No. 1 item on the agenda for the spring was for them to learn the offense, get the offense down," Longo said.