Here is the second half of NC State head coach Dave Doeren’s Media Day Press Conference.  Below the video is a transcript of some of his main points.

On Will Richardson…

He had a great summer in the weight room. He got a lot stronger. He’s been hurt. He’s had nicks that have bumped him out of the training cycle. He have a sprained ankle, or a sprained knee, or mono, or pinkeye. It was crazy. You need a eight week window to maximize your growth. He never really got one of those until this summer. I think he matured a lot and the redshirt year helped him. Will has a great passion and energy for the game of football. I think that’s something our offensive line needed. It’s contagious. And he finishes. He worked really hard this first week to get himself in the conversation.

On what Jacoby Brissett needed to work on…

What we needed him to fix, you saw him fix as the season went on. I think some of it wasn’t so much on him, as it was about being a first year starter. You make mistakes. You learn from your mistakes. We also played three of the best defenses in the conference in one month, which I also think had something to do with it. He overstrided on his drop sometimes which got him off balance, and he would struggle on his feet against pass rushes. That is something we have worked on really hard this spring that has helped him. His accuracy down the field has been tremendous and fall camp. That was the one thing we challenged him to do this summer, and we’ve seen really good results so far. Last year I think he would let things he couldn’t control get to him. Other players. How hey we’re playing or not playing. Injuries…whether players would be in or out. Now he’s just focused on what he can control, and that has helped a lot. If a guy drops a ball it doesn’t bother him anymore. You can see him handling adversity better.

On Pharoah McKever…

He plays in non pass rush situations, but he is still learning to be that every down attitude type guy. He’s competitive. He’s coachable. You’ve got to remember that he was playing quarterback and receiver two years ago. It’s a mindset. The D-Line is just different. Your motor has to run got all of the time. It’s getting there, but it’s not there yet.

On M.J. Salahuddin…

He knows our scheme extremely well. He has played the Will and the Mike. He knows both sides of the formation. He’s very focused and a professional when it comes to how he handles himself. I think those first few days off of coming off of an acl there is a mental block, even though the doctors telling you that your good. He’s going to have a series of firsts. He has to get through all those things to realize that this thing is ok. That’s just part of the recovery process. He’s where we thought he would be at this point.

On moving Kentavius Street to Defensive Tackle…

We lost some great production inside. He’s one of the few players that can play both.  He’s fast enough to be an end, and certainly strong and big enough to be a tackle.  We just felt like he would be a disruptive force in there and create a lot of mismatches.  We hope he is.  That’s why we did it.  We felt good about what we had coming back at defensive end, or we wouldn’t have made the move.

On having the worst non conference schedule according to FoxSports…

There’s a lot of things said in the preseason, and some of them may come true, and some of them may not.  We’ll see if they’re good at that.  I still think we play on the toughest side of a conference as anybody.  That’s part of what goes into setting up the other part of our schedule.  Some of it we inherited, as you already know, and that is what it is.  We play some really good conference teams.  When you play with 70% of your team as young as we are, I think we did the right thing.  It’s about building your team.  That’s what is most important.  Not what Fox thinks.  When you become an experienced football team, you can add different games, but after this season this conversation is going to end, because of who we have on the schedule going forward.  This is the last time they will be able to say that.