Mack Brown calls out ‘classless’ postgame comments by NC State head coach after rivalry game

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North Carolina head coach Mack Brown fired back at North Carolina State head coach Dave Doeren on Wednesday, nearly a month after Doeren’s postgame comments caused a stir. 

After NC State defeated the Tar Heels to end the regular season, ACC Network cameras caught Doeren speaking to his team in the locker room. 

Head coach Dave Doeren of the NC State Wolfpack reacts following a play during the game against the Miami Hurricanes at Carter-Finley Stadium on Nov. 4, 2023 in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Lance King/Getty Images)

"It's been 1,460 days since those pieces of s--- beat us," Doeren told his team, per ESPN.

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Without mentioning Doeren by name, Brown expressed disappointment in his comments. 

"The last ballgame, with a rival school, after the game the head coach of that school called our players pieces of s---," Brown said Wednesday. "I apologize for that language but I’ve never heard something like that before. I’m disappointed. I thought it was classless. It’s not true. 

"We didn't play well in the game. We didn't coach well in the game. It's been very well-documented, and I got that, but you don't call kids a piece of s---. And I've addressed it with our team. I apologized to them. These kids are one of the top academic groups in America. They got an award for AFCA’s top 13. They’ve won a Coastal Division. They’ve won a bunch of games. They’ve been to an Orange Bowl, been to five straight bowls. They represent us well, and from me speaking for them and their parents, they really didn’t appreciate being called a piece of s---. Never heard