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Wake Forest Football Recruiting

Stan Gable said:
Like our defensive recruiting but can we get address our biggest need with some stud linebackers???
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I wouldn't be surprised if one of the bigger DB recruits ends up at Linebacker, following the Luke Masterson path.
 
Deaconblue said:
I wouldn't be surprised if one of the bigger DB recruits ends up at Linebacker, following the Luke Masterson path.
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They will more than likely take 2 LBs, but Patterson or another safety who could come on board in another couple of weeks will probably end up growing into linebackers. I'm sure there will inevitably be some grumbling about that, but linebackers are just going the way of safeties getting bigger and moving to linebacker. Especially in the ACC, they have to be able to cover.

Your 240lb model of linebackers is just getting phased out unless they're absolute freaks(see Anderson, Will or Turner, Dallas) and everyone is moving towards 6'0 - 6'2 linebackers that are filling out around 230 so they can still chase receivers, increasingly more athletic TEs, and running backs.

Commitment wise, it trends pretty similar to quarterback recruiting in terms of people waiting for their top targets to come off the board before extending more offers out. There's maybe... 10 teams around the country that aren't sitting on the edge of their seats trying to get their guys at LB. Brutal position

Should know at least about one target in the next month
 
Only one true frosh LB in the very small (12 fresh) class of 22. But Wake also adding LB "Draco" Robinson as a soph transfer.
 
Draco was an important addition. If we can somehow get Godfrey in this class, he would most likely be our highest rated LB recruit ever.
 
OldGoldBeard said:
One of the figures the much-lamented Deac94 used to track was number of P5 offers. Here are our numbers from the last Signing Day thread he compiled:

2016 class: Twelve (57%) of the commits had 2 or more other P5 offers. Just over one-third of the commits had 4 or more other P5 offers.
2017 class: Seven (37%) of the commits had 2 or more other P5 offers. Just over one-quarter of the commits had 4 or more other P5 offers.

This year's count, going by 247's numbers, appears to be:

Davis- 11
Ash- 9
Sell- 8
Marshall- 6
Petitbon- 5
Griffis- 4
Wayman- 3
Puryear- 2
Frogge- 2
Roberts- 1
Vaughan- 0
Cooley- 0
Whitter- 0 (even though he's our second-highest-rated commit)

Nine out of 13 have two or more other P5 offers (69.2%), while six out of 13 have four or more other P5 offers (46.2%). Given that it's June, those numbers could still go up, assuming we can hold on to everyone.
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I figured I'd bump this post from several years ago.

Class of 2023:

P5 offers by recruit (excluding WF, obviously):

Robinson- 23
Lee- 15
Pickett- 8
Tongue- 6
Williams- 5
Walton- 4
Thomas- 4
Marable- 3
Alexander- 3
McRae- 3
Patterson- 2
Gilliam- 0
Steih- 0
Armstrong- 0

Two or more offers- 78.6% (11/14)
Four or more offers- 50% (7/14)

Pretty funny to look back at the prior post and see Whitter at the bottom, given where he ended up.
 
Based on the little I know about 2024 QB's, Prentiss Nolan impressed me the most as the best fit for what Wake does.
 
is the expectation that Clawson will running some version of the mesh-point read option in five years?
 
JuiceCrewAllStar said:
is the expectation that Clawson will running some version of the mesh-point read option in five years?
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RPO is being run at all levels of football. That will continue until defenses stop it. If Wake is putting 40 points per game on the scoreboard running the slow mesh RPO, then yes, Wake will be running it in 5 years.
 
JuiceCrewAllStar said:
is the expectation that Clawson will running some version of the mesh-point read option in five years?
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That really depends on personnel I think. As our talent and depth improves on offense, I could see us running a traditional RPO. If defensive personnel preferences of our opponents change, then we will likely adapt as well.

If anything Clawson has demonstrated that he will form the system around the players not the other way around.
 
right but it's a bit chicken-egg since Clawson is also picking the players

I'm just wondering if Clawson has stated publicly that he's looking to bring in guys that fit this system or if he's aspiring to a different system that works if he gets his guys
 
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