Very cool in-depth article about Wake Football
https://es.pn/3bFXyKq
Dave Clawson has created college football version's of Moneyball at Wake Forest
-here are two excerpts I found interesting
“…Wake's offensive coordinator, Warren Ruggiero, compared Clawson's approach to Steve Jobs': "You can't look at the competition and say you're going to do it better. You have to look at the competition and say you're going to do it differently."
Clawson's first two years at Wake were a slog, both ending with a 3-9 record, but he saw progress. The freshmen offensive linemen working with the scout team began to hold their own against the first-team defense. John Wolford, the QB he threw into the fire as a true freshman in 2014, weathered the storm. His early recruiting classes filled with raw material began to look like ACC-caliber players.
"The key to our success is to find the guys who can still develop and become as good as those four- and five-star guys," Clawson said. "They're not missing anything physically. It's just a year of development. I really believe a lot of our players, after a year of development in our program, they'd be four-star players."
…It was the end of Phillip Fulmer's run as head coach, the staff was new, and the team was bad. Clawson became a target for fan outrage, and at year's end, despite the three-year contract he signed, Clawson and the entire staff were let go.
Looking back, Clawson admits the experience was miserable, but he said he learned from it. He appreciates the patience he has been afforded at Wake Forest, and Clawson believes in its culture.
It would be nice to get a little acclaim for the success, but he knows that's a double-edged sword.
"I'm very happy where I'm at," Clawson, 54, said. "In this profession, if you're happy and enjoy where you're at, you don't feel a need to look."