RALEIGH, N.C. — If this is a one-year referendum on Kevin Keatts’ future at N.C. State, he doesn’t want to hear it. Same for reflections upon last season’s debacle, which went sideways in the first minute and never really got any better on the way to an 11-21 finish and only four wins in the ACC.
Keatts stepped back, analyzed, assessed, drew conclusions — swapped out his entire coaching staff — and then left what he called a “very humbling” year behind, for good.
Rather than think about the recent past or future, he found himself taking solace in the more distant past, his first few seasons at N.C. State, when the Wolfpack either made the NCAA tournament or should have, when Kevin Keatts Was A Winner, when things seemed to be on their way up.
