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Dave Doeren After NC State’s Loss to Clemson: BULLETED

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Dave Doeren spoke with the media directly after his #10th ranked Wolfpack lost to #5 Tigers on Saturday night. You can watch what he had to say above, or check out a breakdown below.

  • Winning here, the last 36 teams that have tried didn’t get it done.
  • We had to play a lot better than we did tonight.
  • Give Clemson credit.
    • They won the line of scrimmage.
    • Their D-line played really good. They got off the blocks.
    • Had a good game plan defensively.
      • Played a lot looser in the secondary and made it hard for us to run by them, and their D-line pressured us.
  • On defense, we had some opportunities right before the half to walk in with the lead getting the ball back.
    • Had a coverage breakdown that led to Will Shipley’s play.
    • Had a chance at an interception that we dropped, and then they scored.
      • That was a big possession for them because we took the lead on the series before.
  • It was a hard-fought game. Clemson out-played us, and obviously that means they out-coached us today.
  • Some of what we did was throwing the football when we’re down which takes away from running the football.
  • We lost the turnover margin, and we lost the line of scrimmage, and you don’t win many games when that happens.
  • Go to the next game. We can’t sit here and say, ‘What if?’
    • It’s a long season, man. There’s a lot of games left.
    • All we can control is next week. We have to focus on getting ready for Florida State, take them one at a time, and see where we end up.
  • This is a good football game with a good team on the field. We didn’t play our best.
    • I think we’re a really good football team. They were better than us today. That’s where we’re at.
  • Tips end up being interceptions a lot. That’s just kind of the luck of the bounce on that one.
  • As far as the deep ball, they played a lot of loose coverage. There were a lot of guys dropping.
    • They were dropping 8 at times. There was Cover 2 and Cover 3.
    • They know what happened to them last week against Wake. They did a good job preparing that.
    • Their D-line deserves a lot of credit. Devin Leary didn’t have a lot of time to find people.
  • There were some plays that we gave them where guys started trying to make plays, and when that happens, guys get behind you, and your eyes are in the backfield. It happened a couple of times.
  • I feel like we gave them a touchdown going into the half.
    • I really feel that way, not to discredit Clemson who made a nice throw and catch.
    • On a 3-deep with 2 hard corners and they run a flat route, the corner should be all over that.
    • That should’ve never been caught by Shipley. We busted right there. Our corner had eyes in the wrong spot.
    • You can’t do that in a game like this.
    • You don’t have to be perfect, but you’ve got to play the defenses and offenses, execute, make your layups, and not turn the football over. We didn’t do that well enough.

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1 year ago

We didn’t win against the toughest team on our calendar. A successful season wasn’t limited to undefeated and national champions. – play calling defensively can improve. DJ has arm talent and given time he will make you pay and he did because too often we gave him time – offensively our O-line grades well but doesn’t seem to reflect their grades against talented opponents. We didn’t move/roll the pocket, run bootlegs, do play action on first down, nearly enough. Run on first screen on second, bail us out Thayer on third… way too predictable against talented teams. – how much… Read more »

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Colorado DT Transfer Chazz Wallace is Taking an Official Visit to NC State Tomorrow

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NC State has offered Colorado Defensive Tackle Transfer Chazz Wallace (6’2″/295), and he confirmed with me that he will be taking an Official Visit to Raleigh tomorrow.

Wallace played in 10 games for Coach Prime this past season, starting in 4. He finished with 11 tackles and 1.5 sacks. His PFF Grade was 56.4.

Prior to Colorado, Wallace spent his first three years at Old Dominion.

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NC State Offers FCS DT Brandon Lane

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NC State offered Stephen F. Austin (FCS) Transfer Defensive Tackle Brandon Lane (6’3″/300) yesterday.

Lane started in 6 of the 11 games he played in for Stephen F. Austin this past season. He finished the year with 44 tackles, 6.5 tackles for loss and 1.5 sacks. His PFF Grade was 74.6, which ranked 4th on the Lumberjacks Defense. His 79.9 Run Defense Grade ranked 3rd on the team. In 2022, Lane played 7 games as a reserve for Stephen F. Austin, recording 11 tackles 2.5 tackles for loss and 1 sack.

Lane spent his first two collegiate seasons at South Dakota State (2000-21). In 2000, he played in 1 game. In 2021, he played in 3 games as a reserve for the Jackrabbits. The 2000 season was the Covid Year, and the 2021 season was his redshirt year. As a result, Lane still has two years of eligibility remaining.

Around a week-and-a-half ago, Lane committed to Michigan St., but then he decommitted from the Spartans on May 2nd.

I don’t think Michigan St. is necessarily off the table, and he has visited Washington and West Virginia.

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Congrats to NC State Football’s Spring Graduates!

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Congratulations to the 7 NC State Football Players that just graduated this Spring.

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2024 Football Spring Graduates

Linebacker Devon Betty (1 year of eligibility)

Defensive End Davin Vann (1 year of eligibility)

Cornerback Aydan White (1 year of eligibility)

Offensive Guard Anthony Carter Jr. (2 years of eligibility)

Offensive Lineman Matt McCabe (2 years of eligibility)

Offensive Tackle Patrick Matan (2 years of eligibility)

Offensive Lineman Brendan Lawson (no longer on the roster)

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Proposed Bill in the NC House Would Require NC State & UNC To Play One Another, as well as ECU, UNCC and App St.

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A bill has been proposed by members of the North Carolina House of Representatives that would force NC State and UNC to play one another, as well as East Carolina, UNC Charlotte and Appalachian State.

According to House Bill 965, which you can read here in full, NC State and UNC would be required to play one another annually in Football, Men’s Basketball and Women’s Basketball. The Wolfpack and the Tar Heels would also be forced to play a game annually in all three sports against either ECU, UNC-Charlotte or App St. Every six years, NC State and UNC would be required to have played a home and away game against each of the three school in all three sports.

Here’s the exact wording from the proposed bill:

Competition Required. – A high-enrollment institution shall do all of the following in each eligible sport: (1) Every academic year, play at least one home or one away game against (i) another high-enrollment institution and (ii) an eligible constituent institution that is not a high-enrollment institution. (2) Every six academic years, play at least one home and one away game against each eligible constituent institution that is not a high-enrollment institution. A high-enrollment institution shall alternate home and away games that are scheduled against the same eligible constituent institution that is not a high-enrollment institution.

For glossary of terms being referenced above:

For the purposes of this bill, “High-enrollment institutions” = NC State and UNC, while “Eligible constituent institutions” = East Carolina, UNC Charlotte and Appalachian State.

It’s worth noting that NC State already has games schedule against each of these teams home-and-away in Football between now and 2031.

2025 – East Carolina (H)

2025 – @ App St.

2026 – App St. (H)

2028 – @ East Carolina

2030 – Charlotte (H)

2031 – @ Charlotte

What are your thoughts?

For more details, check out this article at WRAL.

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