NC State will fire head coach Mark Gottfried at the conclusion of this season, per a report from ABC’s Mark Armstrong. Gottfried’s tenure appeared to be approaching this sort of abrupt end, though nothing regarding his status had been reported prior to this evening.
Following a dreadful 2016 season, the 2017 season has fallen apart at the seams on Gottfried—State is 14-12 (3-10) and riding a five-game losing streak, with no apparent end in sight. The final nail, if Armstrong’s report is accurate, was the 30-point loss in Winston-Salem on Saturday. The program is obviously listless and in crisis, and that lifeless performance merely solidified those facts.