One group of UNC boosters and fans (yours truly among them) favored Satterfield for the UNC job. Here is a little story that help some of you get over your jitters.
Satterfield is from Hillsborough, NC, which like Chapel Hill is in Orange County. He grew up almost in UNC's backyard. Mack Brown never recruited him, nor did any other ACC coach. He went to 1AA App St before it was a power. He started at QB for 3 years. His senior season was App's first great team: 12-1.
He was App QB coach when it won 3 consecutive 1AA/FCS National Championships. He left because he wanted to be an OC. He then was brought back as App OC in 2012. Now here is the story, which I heard in a podcast on IC - the UNC 24/7 site, told by longtime Inside Carolina writer Buck Sanders.
Everybody who knew App football knew that by 2011, Jerry Moore was on his way out, within 2 or 3 years. Buck was at some football writers event in Asheville before the 2012 season, where the then App AD came to speak and glad hand. Buck knew the guy already and cornered him about the App plan to deal with Moore and a new HC. Buck said that the App AD told him that when Moore was going to leave, however that came to be, he as AD would get the entire staff in a room and tell them that if they unanimously could agree on one of them to be HC, then that would be the new HC and all the staff probably would stay. But if they were not unanimous, then his search would be opened wide.
We do not know he did that, but we know that Satterfield was bought back as OC knowing that App was about to move up from 1AA/FCS to 1A/FBS. And we do know that Satterfield was hired as HC very quickly, before App moved up. Satterfield was a 1st time HC who at the same time led the program up to 1A/FBS. App chose to 'ease out' Moore before the move, and hired Satterfield to lead the move. And he did it brilliantly.
Satterfield is a LEADER.