He actually has an impressive resume. His teams get better every single year and guy is very smart..practically a Ph.D. He's not in my top 10 but he apparently was offered and will be our coach.
Doeren, who has packed a careers worth of experience into his 22 years in the coaching profession, is a living example of a single-minded focus on a goal.* After eschewing medical school to follow his passion, he climbed rapidly through the coaching ranks.
He came to NC State after leading the program at Northern Illinois to its most successful two years in program history.* His first Husky squad won the schools first Mid-American Conference Championship since 1983 and tied the school record with 11 wins.* His second version repeated as league champions and set a new school record by posting 12 victories for the season and earned a trip to the Orange Bowl - the first BCS berth ever for a MAC school.* Doeren was a finalist for several national coach of the year awards following the 2012 campaign.
Under Doerens leadership, NIU boasted the nations longest conference winning streak with 17 straight wins versus MAC opponents.* The Huskies never lost a home game during his tenure in DeKalb, winning a dozen home contests in his two seasons to extend the nations longest home winning streak to 21 games.* The Huskies Academic Progress Rate (APR) ranked among the top five nationally as well. *
Prior to his stint in DeKalb, Doeren spent five seasons in the Big Ten at Wisconsin, where he served as defensive coordinator and linebackers coach.* During Doerens time in Madison, the Badgers posted a 49-15 overall mark and played in the Champs Sports Bowl twice, the Outback Bowl, the Capital One Bowl and the Rose Bowl.
For his first two seasons in Madison, he served as co-defensive coordinator/recruiting coordinator/linebackers coach and in 2008, was named the primary defensive coordinator. *
Doeren arrived at Wisconsin after four seasons (2002-05) at the University of Kansas, where he served as linebackers coach and recruiting coordinator for three seasons before being promoted to co-defensive coordinator under head coach Mark Mangino.*
During Doerens time at Kansas, the Jayhawks ended a seven-year bowl drought, earning bids to the 2003 Tangerine Bowl and the 2005 Ft. Worth Bowl.* The opponent in that first bowl appearance was a Philip Rivers-led NC State team. *
In 2000 and 2001, Doeren coached the secondary at NCAA Division I-AA (now Football Championship Subdivision) powerhouse Montana, also serving as the Grizzlies recruiting coordinator for one year. Montana advanced to the the I-AA national championship game in 2000, losing by two points, but returned to win the national title the following season.* The Grizzlies posted a 28-3 record and won two Big Sky Conference championships in his two years with the program and he coached five All-Americans, four All-Big Sky performers and two league defensive MVPs.
Doeren grew up right outside of Kansas City, where he watched his grandfather, Thomas Glennon, coach high school basketball and track. He loved the respect his grandfather commanded from his players, even after he retired from coaching.
When he left for college at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, his goals were to play football, earn a pre-med degree, go to med school and become an orthopedic doctor.* He accomplished the first two.
He lettered at tight end for the Bulldogs, catching 19 catches for 237 yards for his career.* He majored in pre-medical biology, earning Academic All-American as a senior.* He took the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT).* His plans for the future changed, however, during the summer between his junior and senior years when his former coach at Bishop Miege High School asked him to lead seven-on-seven drills. *
Doeren says from that moment on, he decided he wanted to be a coach.* He pursued that goal with a relentlessness that never wavered.* Instead of heading to med school, he landed his first coaching job in 1994, right there in Kansas at Shawnee Mission High School.* His collegiate coaching career began just a year later, when he was named an assistant coach at Drake, leading the linebackers from 1995-97 before adding defensive coordinator chores in 1997. * He also earned his masters degree from Drake in educational leadership.
Doeren got his first taste of a bowl experience as a defensive graduate assistant at the University of Southern California.* During his stint with the Trojans, he began work on his Ph.D.