North Carolina quarterback Drake Maye revealed his reasoning for staying behind with the Tar Heels on Wednesday.

“Carolina blue means a lot to me,” Drake Maye said, via Pro Football Focus’s Mitch Kaiser. “It means something playing for my home state.”

Rumors of a potential transfer to powerhouses came with all of Maye’s success, but he plans to stick around, wrote Kaiser.

“I really didn’t have any intentions ever to leave,” Maye said. “I wanted to play here, and this is where I want to end up graduating.”