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David William Doeren (born December 3, 1971) is an American
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coach who is currently the head football coach at
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, a position he has held since the 2013 season. Doeren previously served as the head football coach at
Northern Illinois University Northern Illinois University (NIU) is a public research university in DeKalb, Illinois, United States. It was founded as "Northern Illinois State Normal School" in 1895 by Illinois Governor John P. Altgeld, initially to provide the state with c ...
from 2011 to 2012 and has been an assistant at the
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,
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,
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, and
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. He played
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at
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, where he also held his first assistant coaching position.


Biography

Doeren is married with three children. He is a native of
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and attended
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, where he played on the football team.


Coaching career

Doeren's first coaching job was as wide receivers and defensive line coach at
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in Shawnee, Kansas.


College assistant

From there he served as linebackers coach and defensive coordinator of the
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. Later he became a graduate assistant with the
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before being named secondary coach of the
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, where he was a member of the 2001 national championship team. Doeren was linebackers coach with the
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from 2002 to 2005 before becoming linebackers coach and co-defensive coordinator of the
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. He was given the sole title of defensive coordinator in 2008.


Northern Illinois

On December 13, 2010, he was named the new head coach of the NIU Huskies.


2011 season

Doeren led the Huskies to a Mid-American Conference Championship and a win in the GoDaddy.com Bowl in his first year.


2012 season

On November 30, 2012, the Huskies won a second consecutive MAC Championship and become the first
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team to earn a BCS bid with a trip to the 2013 Orange Bowl. Doeren did not coach the Huskies in the Orange Bowl, which NIU lost to
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, as he had already accepted the head coaching position at NC State. Doeren's salary per year was raised to $420,000 in 2012 and he was under contract at NIU until 2017.


NC State

On December 1, 2012, athletic director Debbie Yow announced that Doeren would be the new head coach of the Wolfpack. In his first season at the helm, the Wolfpack compiled a record of 3–9 and failed to win an ACC game. In his second season, they improved to 8–5 (one of the fastest turnarounds in school history), and won the 2014 St. Petersburg Bowl. They also posted a decisive 35–7 win against archrival
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. Doeren accomplished all this with the third youngest team in the nation. In his 12 seasons with the Wolfpack, Doeren has had nine winning seasons and been invited to 10 bowl games.


Head coaching record

* Did not coach bowl game


Notes


References


External links


NC State profile


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