Invoice Belichick introduced out his spatula for the primary time since arriving in Chapel Hill.
North Carolina flipped four-star defensive lineman Trashawn Ruffin away from Texas A&M on Monday, the primary huge flip for the Tar Heels for the reason that future Corridor of Fame head coach took over this system.
Ruffin — out of Mount Olive (NC) North Duplin Excessive College — had been verbally dedicated to the Aggies since October after giving Mike Elko and co. a dedication halfway via his junior season final fall.
Ruffin was on campus at North Carolina final weekend — assembly with Belichick and Tar Heels legends like Julius Peppers and Lawrence Taylor. He sees the blueprint for a championship proper there in Chapel Hill.
“I like the imaginative and prescient he has for this system and I imagine that we are going to get a championship whereas I am there,” Ruffin advised Rivals. “It will not be simple and it’ll take plenty of work, nevertheless it shall be carried out.”
Ruffin shortly shot up North Carolina’s board after Belichick and the brand new teaching employees arrived on campus and coaches hit the street within the Contact Interval in January. The 6-foot-3, 300-plus-pounder was one in every of Belichick’s first stops on the roads — and the Tar Heels haven’t slowed down since.
“UNC felt like dwelling as a result of it’s so near dwelling and I wish to be one of many home-grown gamers out of a small city to assist get that chip,” Ruffin detailed. “North Carolina is my dwelling, and whereas I used to be there I used to be snug. I felt at dwelling.”
