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Doeren out at NC State after 3-4 start in 14th season

Todd Goebbel takes over as interim coach and NC State starts its first coaching search since 2012; Doeren is owed ten point three million dollars.

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  1. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorNC State has fired Dave Doeren after a three and four start, on the heels of a thirty-one to twenty-eight loss at Stanford, and I'm telling you, this is a family in crisis.

  2. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorFourteen seasons, ninety-eight wins, ten bowl games. That's a lot of good Saturdays. Why fire him now?

  3. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorLook, the defense gave up twenty-eight point one points a game, second worst in the ACC. But here's the part that gets me.

  4. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorAthletic director Boo Corrigan said last October that he did not believe in firing coaches mid-year.

  5. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSo he believed it for a year, and it ran out at three and four?

  6. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorTen point three million dollars is what Doeren is owed, with three years left on the deal. That's the price of the belief.

  7. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorAnd Corrigan thanked him for always representing the university with pride. So the pride was fine?

  8. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorPride was never the problem, it's the Stanford game. Todd Goebbel takes over as interim for the rest of the year.

  9. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorElsewhere, BYU and UCF are tied thirty-one all in double overtime, and Boise State and Washington State are seven apiece with forty-six seconds left in the second quarter.

  10. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorMiami beat Pitt fifty-two to twenty-three, and Indiana won it thirteen to six in overtime over Michigan.

  11. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorDoes the belief come back next October, or is that a one-year thing?

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