When Chazz Surratt, then perhaps the best high school quarterback in North Carolina, committed to Duke in April 2015, members of the UNC coaching staff felt the kind of disappointment that comes naturally whenever they lose a coveted prospect. They also believed they had a chance, still, to convince Surratt to come to Chapel Hill.
“I remember that when he made the commitment (to Duke),” Larry Fedora, the Tar Heels’ coach, said earlier this week, “he wasn’t real sure, he wasn’t 100 percent. So we just felt like if they wanted us to continue to recruit him, we would.