{"id":1939783,"date":"2026-10-23T16:32:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T20:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1939783"},"modified":"2026-10-23T16:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T20:52:08","slug":"is-the-dj-eliot-experiment-working-nc-states-defensive-numbers-raise-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1939783","title":{"rendered":"Is the DJ Eliot Experiment Working? NC State\u2019s Defensive Numbers Raise Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the 2024 season, Dave Doeren brought in Eliot to replace Tony Gibson, who had departed to become Marshall&#8217;s head coach. Gibson&#8217;s 3-3-5 defense had become synonymous with NC State&#8217;s defensive identity, but Eliot arrived with plans to introduce a more multiple approach. The goal wasn&#8217;t simply to change formations. It was to make NC [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packinsider.com\/2026\/10\/23\/dj-eliot-nc-state-defense-2024-2025-2026-comparison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the 2024 season, Dave Doeren brought in Eliot to replace Tony Gibson, who had departed to become Marshall&#8217;s head coach. Gibson&#8217;s 3-3-5 defense had become&#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-1939783","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\/1939783","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=1939783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939784,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939783\/revisions\/1939784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1939783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1939783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1939783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}