Is there pressure to win on Dave Doeren and NC State?

Many pundits pegged NC State as a preseason dark horse headed into 2015.

But all that fizzled after the Wolfpack finished with seven wins and another losing record in ACC play. So that begs the question: Does coach Dave Doeren feel pressure to win headed into Year 4?

“We’ve been in back-to-back bowl games, so we’ve won,” Doeren said recently. “I don’t feel like I haven’t won here. I have the same pressure on myself as I do every year. How good can we be? Let’s make sure at the end of the year when we look backwards that we felt like we did that.

“Could we have been better last year? Sure. We could have. But we weren’t a failure, either. There’s a lot of things we did well. There’s some things…