Former NC State coach Mark Gottfried texted Will Wade prior to the Clemson game. Here is what was said…

If you missed the Will Wade radio show on Thursday night, you missed a lot.

He leaked that we’re about to wear black ‘Tuffy’ jerseys vs. Pitt. He started a firestorm when he said the University wasn’t allowing him to wear the ‘Slobbering Wolf’ logo, and they sent a scathing email about the team wearing the retro jerseys on opening night. He talked about his team playing down to the competition.

And now we learn that Mark Gottfried texted him prior to the Clemson game!

Here is the segment from the show…

How does overreaction from NC State fans affect chemistry and confidence as a team?

I don’t know much as a team. It’s funny, as you know, I’m not on social media. I’m not like, Reid does all my social media. So I don’t know if I should say this, but I will. I don’t really care. Before we went to Clemson, Mark Gottfried texted me.

He’s like “Hey coach” and we’ve texted back and forth. We had the same agent for a long time. So I’ve known him through him for a while. Coach Avent had the same, we all had the same guy for a while. I think at one point the agent had Doeren, Avent, and Gottfried were all at NC State.

But anyway, so I’ve known him, I’ve known him for a while through that. And he texted me. “Hey, I’ve dealt with the media there.” And he sent me this long text. It was very nice. I’m sitting there going, man, everybody must be freaking out or something must be going crazy.

Like I’m oblivious to good or bad. What’s going on. But I try to tell our players, never listen to criticism from somebody you wouldn’t take advice from. If you’re not calling them for advice, you shouldn’t listen to anything they have to say when they want to criticize you. Now that’s easier said than done. It’s easier for me.

You’ve been criticized as much as I have, you don’t care. I really don’t care at this point. And, the players, it’s probably a little bit harder. But we try to insulate ourselves from that. But look, the way I look at it is when there’s strong reactions means people care and people are invested and you want people that care and you want people that are invested.

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Here is the full radio show…