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Back in the day the elite quarterbacks all flocked to the Gus Purcell Quarterback Camp, a week-long confab of a hundred or so high school quarterbacks held on a modest campus in south Charlotte. Purcell was the longtime head coach at Myers Park High in Charlotte who was airing the ball out when most everyone was churning it up from a full-house backfield (he watched the Washington Redskins and Sonny Jurgensen every Sunday afternoon on Channel 3 in Charlotte and drew up their plays).