{"id":1937164,"date":"2026-10-08T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1937164"},"modified":"2026-10-08T09:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:02:15","slug":"mark-gottfried-talks-nc-state-firing-dave-doeren-smacking-coach-ks-butt-rich-howells-toughness-and-much-more-bald-takes-pod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1937164","title":{"rendered":"Mark Gottfried talks NC State firing, Dave Doeren, Smacking Coach K\u2019s butt, Rich Howell\u2019s Toughness and Much More | Bald Takes Pod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bald Takes Podcast (which is honestly a great listen for Pack fans) invited former Wolfpack basketball coach Mark Gottfried on to chat, and man, was this entertaining. Gottfried told the full story of his final week in Raleigh for the first time. He also talked Coach K, Dave Doeren, and why he&#8217;s pulling for [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packinsider.com\/2026\/10\/08\/mark-gottfried-talks-nc-state-firing-dave-doeren-smacking-coach-ks-butt-rich-howells-toughness-and-much-more-bald-takes-pod\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bald Takes Podcast (which is honestly a great listen for Pack fans) invited former Wolfpack basketball coach Mark Gottfried on to chat, and man, was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1937164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","wpcat-81-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1937164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1937165,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937164\/revisions\/1937165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1937164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1937164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1937164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}