You are really confused. We’ve struggled at football because of the size of WF, academic limitations on recruiting, small class sizes, and the tough academic challenge of the university for most athletes. Our facilities are vastly improved on campus (recent) but nothing else has really changed since the 70’s. 7 straight bowls is an amazing accomplishment at WF.
i think this year was a pretty major bummer for a lot of longtime fans. i still believe in clawson, but i'm not gonna get excited after 4 games again for awhile.
Not confused lol. Is winning at Wake harder than winning at Duke? Not even close. Clawson is only 4-4 against them. As I have said, I want Clawson leading this program and think he's the right man to do it and has done a good job, I just said those acting like he's one of the top handful of coaches in the country need to realize Wake has had one winning ACC record in his entire tenure. Right now, he should not go down as a "great" coach ten years from now. If he brings a Mitch led team to 9 or 10 wins he'll prove to me he is a great coach. As of now, this year to me shows last year was a bit of a fluke where we won every close game imaginable including multiple where the other team found a way to lose more than we found a way to win. Right now I think he's a good coach and great program builder. Get me another year close to last year and I'll be singing a different tune. Prove me wrong, Dave.
NJDeac'22, I still wanna know the answers to those questions. Please post them on the Chat Thread, though.
And you read long boring shit for a living.
That is 100% true! So when I get on here I want it short, sweet, and interesting!
Can't judge this mindset, I would have been the same not too long ago. I went down for NC State last year and UNC this year. For those of us that were at Wake in the Caldwell days, maybe the weight of just how incredibly better the entire program is lands differently. And fans with ACC Championship expectations are part of that. UNC was my son's first football game in person, and he was griping about the rain and the cold until Hartman hit Greene on that 60 yard TD pass to take the lead and the stadium went nuts as did he. He lost his mind when they called back the 45 yard pass to AT Perry at the end for a bullshit hold - a call that likely cost us the game. Against NC State AT got the PI call that led to a game-clinching TD.
Last year we got TOs And won close games, this year we didn’t Do either.
Yeah. I’m not sure what the higher ceiling is supposed to be in this scenario.
This perfectly describes Wake Forest Football as a program. Our margins or razor thin. It was obvious at 6-1 that we would have to play out of our minds on offense and have pretty much every break go our way on defense to barely beat mediocre and better teams. How many points did we score this year with Sam throwing off his back foot being dragged down and one of our receivers making an acrobatic catch falling down. Hard to sustain winning streaks relying on that level of good fortune and such.
Since the 2001 season we are 71-104 in the mighty ACC football conference, with four of those seasons being over .500 in the conference. If anything you could say we have an excellent chance of making the ACC title game when we break .500.
