Murphy Center gets a cafeteria renovation

Jul 23, 2026 - 11:50

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Murphy Center gets a cafeteria renovation

RALEIGH, NC - SEPTEMBER 08: North Carolina State Wolfpack defensive back Stephen Griffin (21) and North Carolina State Wolfpack tight end Damien Darden (47) during the college football game between the Georgia State Panthers and the North Carolina State Wolfpack on September 08, 2018, at Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh, NC. (Photo by Michael Berg/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) | Icon Sportswire via Getty Images

You can’t build a proper 21st century college football program without a dining facility that tailors to players’ individual recovery and performance needs in real time, that’s what I always say. The Murphy Center has a new cafeteria that does exactly that—whatever that means, exactly, I do not know.

An inside look at our newly renovated dining space, transformed to improve the student-athlete experience by tailoring to their individual recovery and performance needs in real time.#1Pack1Goal pic.twitter.com/QSZaavcaA7
— NC State Football (@PackFootball) July 21, 2026

My secret to building a good program would be french fries—I would have a five-star chef on staff to come up with all kinds of french fry and french fry-adjacent ideas, all the time, and eventually that’d be all anyone’s talking about after recruiting visits. Now, my team would end up being perhaps a tad sluggish and rotund out there on the field, but our overwhelming recruiting successes could overcome this handicap, I think. I really don’t see how this could fail.