Boo Corrigan

Still plenty to talk about over the course of this week.

It's been obviously a crazy week with the firing of head coach Dave Doran, the comprehensive coaching search that is going on behind the scenes for Boo Corrigan and the athletic staff.

Would you consider a couple more names that we haven't already mentioned? The two of us gave four names on here that we would call, but in the interest of a coaching search, I believe NC State is required by North Carolina law to have at least a couple interviews because it is a state job technically.

So I do want to talk about a couple more names today, maybe see the temperature check on both the two of us, and we'll ask you all to tell us in the comments as well.

And that's why a lot of times, I mean, Bubba Cunningham was the athletic director at UNC, and he was pushed out of the way for the hiring of Bill Belichick, who, despite the Tar Heels ups and downs, has gotten them on TV a lot, has gotten a lot of boosters throwing money at them, has lifted some of those metrics that go into how much your school is paid by the ACC coffers at the end of the year.

You know, I think the same thing is happening with Boo Corrigan right now at NC State.

There's a relatively new chancellor at NC State.

There are some big money boosters who want to be involved.

And that's why a lot of times, I mean, Bubba Cunningham was the athletic director at UNC, and he was pushed out of the way for the hiring of Bill Belichick, who, despite the Tar Heels ups and downs, has gotten them on TV a lot, has gotten a lot of boosters throwing money at them, has lifted some of those metrics that go into how much your school is paid by the ACC coffers at the end of the year.

You know, I think the same thing is happening with Boo Corrigan right now at NC State.

There's a relatively new chancellor at NC State.

There are some big money boosters who want to be involved.

Todd Goble now takes over as interim coach as the Pack prepare to play Cal State.

this weekend i think it was somewhat surprising this move happened in season not so much surprising that it happened but dave doran leaves as the winningest coach in nc state football history the most nine win seasons in nc state football history there is absolutely no question as he said during his final press conference he left this program better than he found it often i think underappreciated quite frankly Particularly among his fan base, athletic director Boo Corrigan came out and said that the time was now to make a change and re-energize Wolfpack football.

They are going to be fully invested.

Hale, what do you make of where NC State is right now?

And two, why did it happen now? I think in some ways you can say – this is the worst possible analogy, but kind of like – letting a dog go before it goes on its own like the fan base had turned particularly I think after the Wake game was problematic because Wake is a team that works within a similar economic structure and then the Stanford loss obviously was a big one you to trot him out there in front of a stadium full of fans booing him for the rest of the season I don't think would have been fair either if you know the change is going to be made make the change

Yeah.

And as someone familiar with the situation said to me, the fans were making it real hard on both Dave Dorn and Boo Corrigan to move forward.

And that loss against Stanford was really bad.

So last night, I'm joking, there's one big elephant in the room, or maybe it's a giant wolf, an oversized wolf.

Boo Corrigan puts out a little note last night with Kevin Howell.

They both sign it, co-sign it, saying, hey.

We have a confidential search, so we're not going to hear any names until it comes out clearly.

Well, maybe those hugs get a little bit tighter when they actually step on campus in front of the supporters and the backers of this program for so long.

And I say that lightly but also strongly in making this point.

Boo Corrigan has now had to pay coaches to go away two times in the last three seasons.

I'm not counting Will Wade.

Got to control the message.

But apparently now Boo Corrigan is going to be leading the football search with the help of Bill Cowher and Dwayne Washington.

So, you know, so far he's 0-1 and one to be determined on hiring revenue support coaches.

So we'll see how this one goes.

At least we got some idea of like what this is going to look like with their national search, even though that runs counter to what just about everybody is saying related to Philip Rivers.

Now, a lot of people pointed this out, including Chris Corchiani's burner.

On Twitter, why does the paragraph say AD and not Boo with the Brian Windhorst? What does that mean? Well, to be clear, Boo Corrigan does sign the end of this digital letter along with Kevin Howell, the chancellor.

So Boo and all the speculation around Boo, was it a package deal? Is he being forced out? Is he in the phantom zone? Well, that letter, I believe, puts that to rest.

Yeah,

it's crazy to think that the move was made mid-season, especially, I'm not sure how real the quote was, but there was a quote attributed to Boo Corrigan that said he wasn't a fan of mid-season firings.

Um, and yet mid season fire, but let's be honest, after the Stanford game, you kind of knew that whether it was the middle of the season or after this year, you had to move on.

It was time to move on.

Phillip Rivers.

That's a good transition to the next step in this process, and that is finding a head coach.

Jackson alluded to a statement that came out just before we hit record with Kevin Howell and Boo Corrigan putting out a statement about the search and finding a head coach.

Bill Cower and Dwayne Washington are the two big names helping to lead that coaching search.

And it happened.

And when I saw one of the coworkers today, he was like, didn't you just tell me that he was going to get fired and they were going to clean house? I was like, yeah, Boo Corrigan will be out soon too, don't worry.

Yeah,

Boo's gone.