Drake Maye shares what he hopes to work on with Chip Lindsey

North Carolina hired a new offensive coordinator this offseason, tapping UCF‘s Chip Lindsey to come and keep a unit that was firing on all cylinders in 2022 humming right along.

Lindsey has one of college football’s best young quarterbacks at his disposal, with Drake Maye coming off a season in which he finished 10th in the Heisman Trophy voting.

“Coach Lindsey’s been great,” Maye said. “Obviously he was here throughout bowl practice, so he got a little bit of a taste of what our offense was the previous years.”

As good as North Carolina’s offense was last year, minor tinkering is probably the best bet. And that certainly seems to be the tack Lindsey is taking so far.

“I think the main thing is he’s keeping a lot of stuff the same,” Maye said. “Not mixing up a lot of communication, not giving us a whole new playbook. Keeping a lot of the passing game stuff the same and trying to do his things that he knows and he’s done in the past in the run game to set up some things and work on stuff that maybe we haven’t been (good), areas we need to improve on.”

Drake Maye, Chip Lindsey getting technique work in

One of the things Chip Lindsey has been able to do for quarterbacks at some of his other stops is hone their fundamentals and technique.

Drake Maye is more polished than most but still has some areas of his game he can clean up a bit.

Then from there it’s all about processing speed and learning how to read and react quicker as defenses move during the course of a play or even within a game.

“Him coaching me, I think the best thing is kind of getting another voice and another guy to talk about footwork things, coverage, defense,” Maye said. “Just trying to soak it all in so I can learn the most I can from him and hopefully just incorporate. We’ve got a lot of minds now that know a lot of football and just kind of take them all together to absorb all I can, really.”