That was my take. I expected to see Santino after halftime, but I also think FSU was a throwaway game and there was no upside to potentially injuring SM and giving Duke more game film on him than the limited, basic playbook film that exist from last week. I convinced myself that essentially Mitch was being offered up as the sacrificial lamb to save Santino for the winnable games.Maybe Clawson and staff are taking the longer view to try and squeeze out at least two more wins. Let Griffis absorb most of the beating from FSU. Have Marucci not beat up and more ready after a week of split reps and next (short) week reps. Maybe by Thursday Marucci knows another 10 pages of the playbook.
Hope springs eternal. You have to have it as a Wake fan.
Clawson wiped out all of the momentum of the Pitt win by starting Mitch. Sure there could be reasons behind the scenes that we are not aware of (e.g. knowing they had 0.00% chance against FSU and/or keeping Mooch for the Duke game where he is better suited for, or he is just too damn arrogant to admit he was wrong).
But, at the end of the day, it turned into one big CF. Players not happy, fans not happy, coaches scratching their asses and then their heads.
Seems like Wake has a history of throw away games. Think of VaTech 2006. Yes OB year, but unlike elite teams, Grobe tossed them a bone. Not saying this team is anywhere close to 2006, but good teams/coaches and gameplans just don’t mail it in.
From 12:00 to 12:01 PMWhat time’s the game?
No Turnovers?
Clawson has some explaining to do in his Tuesday presser.
I haven't been here very long but I'm pretty sure this is true of all you guys too!We know from his introductory presser that he hates Duke. Clawson probably wants to beat Duke more than any team on the schedule.
People aren’t serious that he was intentionally resting a dude who’s played one football game in the last 5 years, right?
Starting Marucci so he could get the game reps and experience against the #4 team in the country would have been the way to go if Clawson truly is laser focused on Duke and wanting to win that game. Saving Marucci and then sending him in when the game is out of hand while letting Midge shit the bed for the umpteenth time would not be the way to do that
Feel free to move about the premises as you see fit, of course, but I wonder how many of you would talk to Clawson using the same tone and tenor you do here.