RALEIGH, N.C. -- When the 2016 schedule came out, NC State’s facilities staff got to work updating the posters and decals hanging around the locker room and weight room.
Gone were names like Troy and South Alabama. In their place were logos for Notre Dame and Miami and East Carolina.
On the first day of lifts after the update, head coach Dave Doeren walked into the weight room and surveyed his players.
“Did anyone see the schedule?” he asked.
The answer was affirmative, and Doeren didn’t need to say much else.
“Then you guys know what your intensity level in the weight room ought to be today,” he told them.