Today, Virginia Tech started a social media marketing campaign to recruit North Carolina. This is one of the graphics used. Perfect timing to borrow it for this series of articles!

We've covered Greensboro, Winston-Salem and the Triangle so far in our "Recruiting North Carolina" series. Today we'll focus on the granddaddy of them all: Charlotte and the surrounding area. Charlotte is easily the biggest recruiting area in the state of North Carolina, and it's not even close. Like the Triangle, Charlotte has had tremendous population growth in recent years.