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2015 <strong>NC</strong> <strong>STATE</strong> <strong>FOOTBALL</strong> <strong>BOWL</strong> <strong>GUIDE</strong> / HEAD COACH<br />
for three seasons before being promoted to co-defensive coordinator under<br />
head coach Mark Mangino.<br />
During Doeren’s time at Kansas, the Jayhawks ended a seven-year bowl<br />
drought, earning bids to the 2003 Tangerine Bowl and the 2005 Ft. Worth<br />
Bowl. The opponent in that first bowl appearance was a Philip Rivers-led <strong>NC</strong><br />
State team.<br />
In 2000 and 2001, Doeren coached the secondary at <strong>NC</strong>AA Division I-AA<br />
(now Football Championship Subdivision) powerhouse Montana, also serving<br />
as the Grizzlies’ recruiting coordinator for one year. Montana advanced to<br />
the the I-AA national championship game in 2000, losing by two points, but<br />
returned to win the national title the following season. The Grizzlies posted<br />
a 28-3 record and won two Big Sky Conference championships in his two<br />
years with the program and he coached five All-Americans, four All-Big Sky<br />
performers and two league defensive MVPs.<br />
The Doeren family: Jacoby, Sara, Connor, Dave and Luke.<br />
streak with 17 straight wins versus MAC opponents. The Huskies never lost<br />
a home game during his tenure in DeKalb, winning a dozen home contests<br />
in his two seasons to extend the nation’s longest home winning streak to 21<br />
games. The Huskies’ Academic Progress Rate (APR) ranked among the top<br />
five nationally as well.<br />
Prior to his stint in DeKalb, Doeren spent five seasons in the Big Ten at Wisconsin,<br />
where he served as defensive coordinator and linebackers coach.<br />
During Doeren’s time in Madison, the Badgers posted a 49-15 overall mark<br />
and played in five bowl games, including the Rose Bowl.<br />
For his first two seasons in Madison, he served as co-defensive coordinator/<br />
recruiting coordinator/linebackers coach and in 2008, was named the primary<br />
defensive coordinator.<br />
Doeren arrived at Wisconsin after four seasons (2002-05) at the University<br />
of Kansas, where he served as linebackers coach and recruiting coordinator<br />
Doeren grew up right outside of Kansas City. When he left for college at<br />
Drake University in Des<br />
Moines, Iowa, his goals<br />
were to play football,<br />
earn a pre-med degree,<br />
go to med school and become<br />
an orthopedic doctor.<br />
He accomplished the<br />
first two.<br />
He lettered at tight end<br />
for the Bulldogs, catching<br />
19 catches for 237<br />
yards for his career. He<br />
majored in pre-medical<br />
biology, earning Academic<br />
All-American as a<br />
senior. He took the Medical<br />
College Admission<br />
Test (MCAT). His plans<br />
for the future changed,<br />
however, during the summer<br />
between his junior<br />
and senior years when his<br />
former coach at Bishop Miege High School asked him to lead seven-on-seven<br />
drills.<br />
At that moment, Doeren decided he wanted to be a coach<br />
and pursued that goal with a relentlessness that never wavered.<br />
Instead of heading to med school, he landed his first<br />
coaching job in 1994, right in Kansas at Shawnee Mission<br />
High School. His collegiate coaching career began just a<br />
year later, when he was named an assistant coach at Drake,<br />
leading the linebackers from 1995-97 before adding defensive<br />
coordinator chores in 1997. He also earned his master’s<br />
degree from Drake in educational leadership.<br />
Doeren got his first taste of a bowl experience as a defensive<br />
graduate assistant at the University of Southern California.<br />
During his stint with the Trojans, he began work on<br />
his Ph.D.<br />
Doeren met his wife Sara while he was coaching at Drake<br />
and she was a nursing student. The couple has three sons:<br />
Jacob (15), Luke (13) and Connor (8).<br />
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