NC State football coaching search: Philip Rivers meets with Wolfpack officials Wednesday - WRAL
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Former NC State quarterback Philip Rivers met with Wolfpack officials in Alabama on Wednesday about the football program’s vacant head-coaching position.
Rivers confirmed to AL.com that he met with NC State officials. A plane that has been used in previous NC State coaching searches traveled from North Carolina to an airport near Fairhope, Alabama, where Rivers is the head coach of St. Michael Catholic High School football team.
St. Michael plays in the first round of the state playoffs Friday night.
The plane stopped in the Atlanta area after departing from the Gulf Coast. On3 reported that NC State officials were in Fairhope and that Rivers has made calls about putting together a coaching staff.
NC State fired Dave Doeren on Oct. 24 in the middle of his 14th season. Doeren is the program’s all-time winningest coach with 98 wins.
Rivers’ son, Gunner, is a NC State 2027 commit.
“You’re talking about NC State, that makes things a little bit different in terms of your love for the place,” Rivers told Ben Thomas, an Alabama high school sports reporter on Friday.
NC State (4-4) hosts Duke on Saturday at Carter-Finley Stadium under interim coach Todd Goebbel.
Coach Goebbel won his first game as interim coach on Halloween as NC State defeated Cal at Carter-Finley Stadium 31-10. As the Pack prepare for Duke, Goebbel was asked how the program is handling the outside noise about its future.
"We're going to be where our feet are," Goebbel said. "Players, coaches, anybody that's involved in this program, we're going to be where our feet are. We're going to serve each other. We're going to be prepared. And then at the end of the day, when the day's over, we're going to lay our head to sleep and say, 'We know we did everything we can for NC State football to…
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