These are the facts: NC State out-gained South Carolina two-to-one. State allowed a season-opening kickoff return for a touchdown and never did overcome that initial deficit despite how well the offense played against the Gamecocks.
That’s Dave Doeren’s NC State program, and shame on me and the rest of us for feeling like it might be different this time, that Dave could both learn from his mistakes and implement their remedies. This is clearly not the case.
At some point, difficult as it is, you gotta come to terms with the nature of the known quantity of your school’s head coach, and I have been in denial about that since last November.