NC State Football
Dave Doeren’s Press Conference Before NC State vs. UNC: BULLETED
Head Coach Dave Doeren met with the media this afternoon before NC State hosts rival UNC for a 7pm kickoff on Saturday night. You can watch the press conference here, or check out a bulleted breakdown below.
- For us as a football team, it’s about putting together 4 quarters of football, and finding a way within the good that we’ve done.
- Like the 2nd half last week with being consistent throughout, and just executing, playing hard and not giving people things.
- In that football game that we just lost, we won the turnover margin and that was improvement.
- Keeping ourselves from giving up explosive plays.
- It’s a four quarter game. It doesn’t matter what your record is. It doesn’t matter what your injuries are. None of that matters.
- Last year they were a team that hadn’t won a lot of games and took us to overtime, with nine wins.
- We went up there a few years ago and they had 10 wins and we were fighting to get into a bowl game, and we killed them.
- It’s one of those games you’ve got to show up and play. Nobody cares what happened in the previous 11 weeks. It’s about what happens on that Saturday.
Senior Night…
- Excited for our seniors this week.
- It’s always an emotional day for the young men, for their families.
- For me as a coach, it’s always a very, very proud day to be with those guys in their last college football game.
- All of them, even the ones who’ve been here for a short period of time like Tabari Hines, have made a lasting impression on me and our staff.
- Emanuel McGirt and what he’s been through.
- Will Brown, one of our walk-on seniors, is just a great young man to be around.
- The Dabbs twins, who are getting ready to go off to the world and one of them’s going to be a doctor.
- Stephen Griffin, Tabari Hines, Deonte Holden, who’s a sixth-year senior, Kishawn Miller, Jarius Morehead, Larrell Murchison, Jackson Quiggle and James Smith-Williams.
- Twelve very special young men to me, our staff and our team.
UNC rivalry…
- Every one of these games that I’ve been a part of has been very heated.
- I know how much we want to win. I know how much they want to win. I know what the fans are like, the whole deal.
- For the fans, we will be in all red and want to have you guys out there wearing your red for us and cheering these young men on and honoring our senior class the right way.
- We look forward to having you do that, and I know how much this game matters in the state.
UNC…
- They’re obviously playing well with Sam Howell at quarterback
- Tailback is a very impressive young man
- Receiving corps has made a lot of plays for them throughout the season.
- Coach Longo does a nice job schematically with what they do.
- Defensively, they’re very sound.
- I think Chazz Surratt may be the most impressive guy, considering he was a quarterback a year ago and now he has 100 tackles as a linebacker.
- That’s really a unique story for them.
- I think Chazz Surratt may be the most impressive guy, considering he was a quarterback a year ago and now he has 100 tackles as a linebacker.
Watching UNC…
- I’ve watched them every week.
- With our schedule being what it was, with the Thursday games and four Saturdays we didn’t play, I’ve had a chance to watch a lot of college football.
- We’ve had a lot of crossover opponents that they’ve had, so we’ve been able to watch them, whether it was through coaches film or through watching the live copy at home.
- Very aware of what they’ve been doing throughout the season.
Importance of good 2nd Half against GT…
- Very important. Our guys showed a lot of heart.
- To see the resolve of the guys and how they came back and held them to seven points in the second half.
- Offensively, had a chance to win it. You know there’s a lot of positives in that.
- Devin Leary continues to get better and better in his confidence.
- He stood up in the locker room and talked to his teammates as a leader.
- They’re playing hard for him now, and they believe in him.
- I think that’s something we obviously didn’t have early, you know when we’re going through all the stuff we’re going through, so that was a huge positive.
- So now it’s just growing from that confidence we gained in the second half and knowing that we’ve got to put together four quarters like that.
Re-establishing the run game against GT…
- Our offense is not built to throw 60 times a game.
- That’s not what we recruited all these guys for.
- We want to be balanced, but we want our run game to set up our pass game.
- We want to take advantage of light boxes when we get them and we want people to have to put numbers in the box, which makes it easier to throw.
- We want to be physical. We want to win the line of scrimmage. We want our offensive linemen to take pride in pancaking people and get back to the second level, let them do their thing and corners and safeties have to take to your backs.
- That’s a part of how we built this team and we have good talent in the backfield.
- The hard part kind of at the intermission of the season is that we lost our tight ends.
- That hurt our run game some.
- Cary Angeline and Thomas Ruocchio showed a lot of things in that last game that help us.
- We had to move Derrick Eason into play tight end.
- We’re down to that and Derrick comes in and does some good things for us, and so it’s allowed him to have a role.
- But it’s a lot different than when you had Dylan [Autenrieth] and Dylan [Parham].
- I thought last week we were able to do it pretty well in the run game, and that sets up our quarterback I think for a lot of things.
Thanksgiving Plans…
- We’re going to take time to be thankful with our players.
- We don’t have school Wednesday or Thursday, so today and tomorrow are normal days for the guys.
- Thursday after practice we’ll cut our developmental guys loose to go home, and they’ll rejoin us for the game Saturday.
- Our travel guys that are local will be able to go home and see their families, and then Thursday night we take the whole team to Angus Barn, to their pavillion, and it’s an awesome feast.
- The guys look forward to it. I know I do, and hopefully the game pants will fit on Saturday.
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