Patience, like an NFL quarterback, a good coordinator who will stay, or a consistent holding call, is an incredibly rare resource in college football. The sport is as cutthroat as it gets. Coaches are graded on a bell curve and no matter where you fall on that curve, somebody somewhere always wants to fire you. Dave Doeren has become a case study on the concept of patience in a space where it’s consistently at a premium. The ninth-year NC State head coach didn’t have any kind of breakthrough in Raleigh until his fifth year. He was 9-23 in the ACC heading into that season.
Patience has paid off with Dave Doeren and the numbers are there to prove it
