Originally this piece was meant to be a retrospective of the first three years of the Dave Doeren era at NC State, but with the recent dismissal of offensive coordinator Matt Canada, the bent here will focus a little more on the recent-versus-historical performance of the offensive and defensive units as well as the overall direction of the program. The numbers seem to bear witness to the general message board sentiment that the wrong coordinator was shown the door.
Before we plumb the depths of clown blogging analysis, let us introduce our metricians. The F/+ rating comes from the indexes of Football Outsiders' nerds Brian Fremeau (the FEI developer) and Bill Connelly (of S&P fame).