RALEIGH — When Dave Doeren walked out of his introductory press conference at N.C. State on Sunday, he was told his former team, Northern Illinois, was headed to a BCS bowl.
Doeren, who led the Huskies to 23 wins in two years and a spot in this season's Orange Bowl, believes he can turn N.C. State into a "special" program.
"I wasn't going to leave (Northern Illinois) for just anything," Doeren said.
Debbie Yow described Vanderbilt coach James Franklin as a "good friend" on Sunday, in the press conference to announce Tom O'Brien's dismissal.
Yow mentioned how she had hired Franklin at Maryland, she also name-dropped Franklin's wife and the cost of Vanderbilt's indoor practice facility. Yow said she had texted Franklin on Saturday but the N.C. State athletic director said the Vanderbilt coach would not be in contention for the vacant Wolfpack job.
"He's not a candidate for this job," Yow said Sunday. "He's in the midst of doing something special there."
Athletic director Debbie Yow received a two-year extension and a raise from N.C. State on Friday.
The school's first national title in 30 years, in any sport, would mean a bigger bonus for Yow, who got $50,000 added to her annual supplemental income in her new contract, which runs through 2017.
Chris Corchiani and Tom Gugliotta will be back at the RBC Center on Tuesday as honored guests of N.C. State.
Wolfpack athletic director Debbie Yow said Sunday that the school will honor the 1988-89 N.C. State basketball team, which won the ACC regular-season title, before Tuesday's home game against North Carolina.
Corchiani and Gugliotta were both members of coach Jim Valvano's penultimate team, which went 10-4 in the ACC and advanced to the Round of 16 in the NCAA tournament. Both former players were involved in an incident with referee Karl Hess in N.C. State's 76-62 loss to Florida State on Saturday at the RBC Center.
N.C. State and North Carolina have met twice a season on the basketball court every year since 1919. That's about to change.
The ACC announced its future scheduling plans for men's basketball and football on Friday and there will be more conference games in both sports, with the pending addition of Pittsburgh and Syracuse, but there will be fewer games between traditional ACC rivals.
Circle the next N.C. State-Maryland men's basketball game on the 2011-2012 ACC schedule.
When N.C. State introduced Debbie Yow as its new athletic director last year, the former Maryland AD downplayed rumors of a fractured relationship with Terrapins basketball coach Gary Williams, pointing out that she had nominated Williams for Hall of Fame consideration.
However, during this afternoon's news conference introducing the Wolfpack's new basketball coach, Mark Gottfried, Yow called out Williams for, in her words, trying to sabotage N.C. State's coach search.
RALEIGH – Minutes after being formally introduced today as N.C. State’s new coach, Mark Gottfried said he is ready to uphold the school’s tradition in basketball.
“This is a great place,” Gottfried said at this afternoon’s news conference. “You have great tradition here at North Carolina State. I’m very familiar with it, understand it, and I want, together with the fans, cherish it together.”
Gottfried, 47, coached Alabama for 11 seasons and was formally introduced as N.C. State’s basketball coach at a news conference in the Vaughn Towers suites at Carter-Finley Stadium.
RALEIGH — With her list of potential candidates reduced by three, N.C. State athletic director Debbie Yow reached out to Wolfpack fans on Monday night.
Yow sent an email out to Wolfpack Club members on Monday night which updated her efforts to find a new basketball coach, one that was a "fighter" and up to the challenge of rebuilding a program that is in "poor shape."
RALEIGH – Four N.C. State university officials will serve on athletic director Debbie Yow's search committee for a new men's basketball coach.
The committee members were announced today. The four university staffers are:
Yow will chair the committee.
Sidney Lowe and Debbie Yow are scheduled to meet at noon today to discuss Lowe's future as N.C. State's basketball coach.
Lowe, 86-78 in five seasons, has two seasons remaining on his contract but Yow, the first-year athletic director, has not made any public comments about his status.
