A lot of armchair experts. Many of you were saying the same thing about Mike Smith who turned into a very capable back up linebacker. Mike Jackson who blossomed this year -same way.I havent seen McCray in practice to make any judgement. You dont dismiss guys who know your system unless they are woefully inadequate. This staff has developed players .
McCray was a RS JR this year and played 6 snaps (all against Bethune Cookman) on the entire season!
Darrion Owens, who was our best Backup LB was also a RS JR, played 202 snaps.
Mike Smith, who was a below average backup and again a RS JR, played 180 snaps.
Charles Perry, who rarely played after UNC, is a True JR, and played 161 snaps.
Notice the difference? Owens was our best backup LB, and got 200 snaps. Smith was average to below average and got 180, throughout the season. Perry got most of his PT early in the season, but still got 160 snaps. Terry McCray, a RS JR got 6 ******* snaps. Dude is in his 4th years here. If that isn't a guy that needs to move on, idk what is.
**** Bradley Jennings played 27 snaps on the season, and 6 of them (same amount McCray played all yr) came in the ACC Championship game vs Clemson.
De'Andre Wilder played 42 snaps on the year, and 5 of them (1 less than McCray played all yr) came in the ACC Championship game vs Clemson.
Are you seeing the message here? ****, he got beat out by 2 freshman, and the only reason it wasn't 3 is because Steed Redshirted this yr to rehab from his ACL team. So Next year we have Smith, Perry, Jennings, Wilder, Steed all ahead of McCray. And you can go ahead and put Joyner ahead too....and those are just the **** backups. Sorry but if you're the 7th BACKUP (10th in total) in the rotation, and you are a **** RS SR, you gotta go.
Good luck to him wherever he transfers.