RALEIGH — Dave Doeren has never been one to mince words when it comes to talking about NC State’s rivalry with North Carolina. When you’ve beaten the Tar Heels five years in a row and have a 9-4 record in a matchup that means more than the rest for many reasons, smack talk is inevitable.
However, the Wolfpack’s football dominance over UNC has stretched beyond the playing field over the last two months. NC State throttled the team from Chapel Hill in late November, marking Doeren’s first win over legendary former Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, who shocked the college football world when he took over the Tar Heels a year ago. The winning for the Pack didn’t stop there.
Since the 42-19 win, NC State racked up three additional wins that won’t go in the record book, but sting fans and members of the UNC program. A flipped high school recruit and two historic transfers kept the rivalry going through the offseason.
Results and records
Just days after the win on the football field stretched the streak to five straight, Doeren and the Wolfpack staff were hard at work signing the next group of high school recruits for the program. One of those additions was edge rusher Lawrence Brown. The three-star recruit didn’t mark a substantial addition in terms of rating, but how the Wolfpack secured him was a major win.
Brown was committed to North Carolina for six months before he flipped to NC State. The decision added insult to injury for the Wolfpack and allowed Doeren to continue flexing his program’s muscles while UNC reeled from a massively disappointing first season for Belichick and Co. Doeren was excited to the point where he let it slip that Brown was coming before it was officially announced…