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You like me. Admit it. Or if that’s too personal, just say it to yourself in your head.
You like me because I’m infusing in you equanimity about the upcoming Wake Forest football season. I am a source of calm. I tell you how it is. And don’t we all need more of that?
And this is how it is. Wake will beat North Carolina A&T in the first game by revivifying the fake handoff and pass or handoff and don’t pass – aka delayed run pass open mesh. What didn’t work last year will this year.
Our quarterback will have it mastered like Sam Hartman did and confuse the NC A&T safeties and linebackers and we’ll all be rolling again, drinking Coca-Cola and eating Nachos with the Winston-Salem air filling our nostrils with life’s nectar I like to call oxygen (Period Table Symbol O2).
Donovan “Glide” Green will catch six passes for at least 79 yards and a touchdown. Demond “Crusher” Claiborne will ramble for two scores and a least 79 years on at least 12 carries.
We’ll be back to our winning ways. There will be some new wrinkles. I’ll be in the stands this season double Dippin’ Dotting and hauling around two bags of caramel corn and tossing it to people in my section.
TJ will be there at the tailgate and we’ll talk to each other from an inch away from each other’s faces catching up on all things Caitlin Clark and his Encyclopedia reading as a kid.
I’ll tell him how much I love Bojangles breasts and mashed potatoes, and he’ll ask me why I never bring the chicken to the tailgate and share it with others.
DJ will text me saying no one’s liking my content so he’s not going to post anything of mine until I write about how great Wake’s basketball team is going to be, powered by Parking Lot and a new Cook Out All-American.
He’ll say I don’t know football. He’ll tell me to drop Sammy Sportface. He’ll say the name of the game is getting likes; I’ll tell him Rick Ruben the music producer for Adele and Red Hot Chili Peppers believes the audience comes last and he creates what he likes regardless of whether it will appeal to anyone else.
But we’re gonna win. Gary “Steady-Minded” Strickland asked me recently what all this stuff I’m writing has to do with Wake-winning football games. My answer provided here is it’s all about mindset. I believe in this team, in Gary, the delayed RPO, the Wake NIL collective, and coach Dave Clawson.
I believe in the sun and moon and stars above and in Wait Chapel and the Quad outside it lying there like a tapestry for luxury lying down. I believe in thinking your way to wins and championships and them coming to fruition.
What do you believe, Gary? How many wins this season?
I say 12-14.
We’re on our way to The Promised Land.
Please like this or it’s the last thing DJ will publish of mine and that will leave a gaping hole in all of our lives.
We need to come together, strap on our chin straps, and take this football season into the Dippin Dot-osphere.
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