Dave Doeren’s Press Conference After NC State’s Victory Over UCONN: BULLETED

Wolfpack Head Coach Dave Doeren met with the media for his postgame press conference after NC State defeated UCONN 41-10 tonight. You can watch it here, or check out what he had to say below.

• I’m proud of the guys. The core value was focus, and the guys were that.
• Came out excited to play…great start with a touchdown to Thayer to open the game.
• It’s good to see Devin get in a rhythm.
  • We wanted to see guys make contact catches and it’s great to see Devin Carter play that way.
• The ball got spread around to numerous receivers and guys were catching the ball well.
• Great to have some guys score their 1st touchdowns: Porter Rooks and Keyon Lesane.
• Run game early was pretty good.
  • When Demie went out we got some of the younger backs some good reps.
• Defensively we played well really until the end when we had a lot of the walk-on guys and freshman in the game getting reps.
  • I was proud of them. There’s a lot of teams that don’t play the way they are supposed to in games like that. But we got better.
• Get ready to play 3 straight games against undefeated teams right now in Clemson, Florida State, and Syracuse.
  • 2 of those are road games.
• We’re hitting on a lot of the cylinders that we wanted to. We’re in a good spot.
  • There’s always things that can be better but all the things that I was disappointed about a week ago were corrected in this game.
• Demie [Sumo] is going to be fine.
  • He was sore. We plan on him being back.
  • If it was a different type of game we probably would have played him today.
• Jordan Houston will be good for next week.
• Tyler [Baker-Williams] is day-to-day and were hopeful to have him next week, but I just don’t know right now.
• Thought Michael Allen did some good things. You saw his speed…he can really run.
  • Catches the ball well and caught some out of the backfield.
  • It was good to get him out there and see how he would be under the lights.
• We’ve been practicing it [fake field goal] for 3 or 4 weeks.
  • I thought it would be good to get on film for our opponents so we know we’re not just going to let people tee off.
  • I thought Chris had a chance to get a 1st down on that play for it being 4th-and-4.
  • Chris’ good. I don’t think he’s been tackled in a long time.
  • It was good to get Collin Smith in there and get him an opportunity. Chris will be fine.
• I think it would be great if Gameday was there [at Clemson next Saturday].
  • Obviously you have 2 undefeated teams.
  • Clemson had a heck of a win today in double overtime. I watched that whole game. That was a heck of a football game.
  • We’re going to play the longest home winning streak in the country down there. They’ve done a tremendous job. I’m looking forward to the week and everything that goes with it.
• It was awesome for Josh [Harris]. That was his 1st career sack.
  • He was really excited afterwards. He’s still dancing in the locker room, I think.
• Davin Vann’s sack was a big play.
  • It was too bad that we didn’t get the ball there, because it would’ve been a shutout probably if we had.
• I thought Clemson’s quarterback really played well today.
  • That’s the best I’ve seen him play. He was accurate. His guys made plays for him. His O-line protected him. He wasn’t on the ground a lot.
  • From an improvement standpoint from last year to this year, you can see that D.J. [Uiagelelei] is playing a lot better.
• Porter [Rooks] and Keyon [Lesane] have both played a lot here.
  • For both of them to score tonight was great.
  • They’re guys who just work hard and do the right thing.
  • Both of them have worked through a rotation where they’re behind other players.
  • Now they’re playing more and more. It was good for them to get rewarded and make the play.