N.C. State coach Dave Doeren didn’t want to talk football Monday, or the Louisville game this week, or the still disturbing loss to Boston College.
All that was on his mind, he said, was the tragedy at the University of Virginia and the shooting deaths of three students, all football team members.
“As a program in the ACC and just as a program in general, I want to send out our thoughts and prayers to the UVA community, to our colleagues and to their students and student-athletes and families,” Doeren said in beginning his weekly news conference. “It’s terrible news. Football and coaching is a brotherhood and we definitely are here beside them and support them and suffer with them.