Good evening, Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) sports fans.
Kudos to Boo Corrigan and Dave Doeren for making one of the very best hires of the college football offseason – McNeil will make a nice special assistant to Doeren:
This is probably one of the very best hires in college football – State won the lottery here. https://t.co/C12eGnmjKI
— Hokie Matthew (@hokiesmash_ASD) July 7, 2020
This is really good. Have said DD has learned on the job and having an experienced advisor that closely aligns with your values will prove to be priceless.
We should all be so lucky. https://t.co/ENld7eE9cL
— Red & White Podcast (@RedWhitePodcast) July 7, 2020
His single greatest coaching achievement. https://t.co/m0GU9iAwa6
— Red & White Podcast (@RedWhitePodcast) July 7, 2020
If you’re not familiar with Ruffin McNeil, he was the East Carolina head football coach from 2010 to 2015. McNeil had a record of 43-34 as a head coach at East Carolina University (McNeil led the Pirates to multiple bowl appearances, including a 10-3 season in 2014 – and he knows a thing or two about offense – and putting a 70 burger on UNC). To this day, many of us are awestruck by what might be one of the more incompetent decisions ever by an athletic director when McNeil (an East Carolina University alumnus), was fired after one of the more successful runs in Pirate football history.
Of course, you know the story about McNeil – NC State has a good writeup about him here – Ruffin spent ten seasons at Texas Tech (AIR RAID), a season at Virginia, and:
McNeill most recently served as the assistant head coach at Oklahoma, where he led the defensive tackles and outside linebackers during his three seasons with the program. He also served as defensive coordinator for much of the 2018 campaign. He left the program in January in order to return to North Carolina to help care for his elderly father.
During his tenure at OU, the Sooners won three Big 12 Championships and advanced to three College Football Playoffs. Following the 2017 season, Oklahoma played Georgia in the CFB semifinals, losing 48-54 in double OT. The next season, the Sooners played Alabama in the Orange Bowl and last season played LSU in the Chick Fil A Peach Bowl.
We should all be so lucky to hire someone like McNeil.
Kudos to NC State on a solid hire – and maybe one of the very best of college football’s offseason.
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