My quest continued this week to figure out the Wake Forest delayed run-pass option mesh offensive scheme – one of the most clever, mystifying, and effective strategies in all of sports. I went to a source I figured could unpack this thing for me so I could fill you in on football’s blackest box. His […]
You saw the young man struggle last week. Adversity almost swallowed him whole. He heaved a duck interception – it went the other way for a touchdown. Even worse, inside Old Dominion’s 10-yard line, he committed football’s biggest sin: he fumbled the ball. That one went 90 yards the other way for six. Then he […]
Dave Clawson is not your typical football coach – not even close. He’s a well-educated man who speaks well, is authentic, doesn’t get into bravado and bluster, and has class. Nowhere in the country can you listen to a more interesting, engaging, and thought-provoking weekly college football coach’s press conference than the ones held by […]
I’m worried as heck about Georgia Tech, Wake Forest’s opponent this Saturday in football. There are several reasons for this angst. The first – and most emotionally disconcerting – is about the team’s coach, Brent Key. When he was introduced as the team’s new head coach last December, he said some things that seemed a […]
On the brink of a disastrous loss and trailing 17-0 at half-time, Wake Forest’s football team (now 3 and 0) dug deep and managed to come back from the dead and get past Old Dominion University, 27-24. The team’s quarterback, Mitch Griffis, made up for an extremely shaky game and two awful first-half turnovers, and […]
Pennsylvania is known for its football heroes. A few of the greatest quarterbacks ever, Joe Montana and Dan Marino, came from there. The state is also where plenty of great linebackers grew up such as Jack Ham who went on to star with the Pittsburgh Steelers. The state now can be proud to have another […]
In a start and stop and start again game – triggered by a 100-minute, field-emptying stall due to lightning and a serious downpour that turned 11 am into something that looked like 8 pm – Wake Forest ran over Vanderbilt today, 36-20. After the prolonged stoppage of play as the skies cleared and the sun […]
As the skies darkened and rain poured, forcing a college football game rain delay, sports blogger Sammy Sportface took the opportunity to raid the press room breakfast buffet. Three times within 30 minutes he went through the line and packed his plate mainly with piles of bacon strips along with a mound of muffins […]
You won’t find — not in any of the 400 or so college football games being played this Saturday — players representing two more academically prestigious institutions of higher learning than Wake Forest University versus Vanderbilt University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. These two institutions rank in the top 10 percent of 443 “Best National Universities,” according […]
