Aaron Henry is standing on a wooden bench in the cramped visiting locker room at Florida State. It might as well be a pulpit.
There is no collection plate to pass, but the N.C. State assistant coach has a football sermon for the players.
“I love atmospheres like this, man,” Henry says. “It’s just us!”
His deliberate cadence is picking up, so is his volume.
“It ain’t nobody else,” he’s shouting now.
Henry, only 28, is in his first year as N.C. State’s safeties coach, but he knows how N.C. State has come up short in big games like this against brand-name ACC teams.