long but good read on Clawson / wake

[blazers]

Bout Clawson doing "moneyball"

Dave Clawson has created college football version's of Moneyball at Wake Forest

Dave Clawson has quietly been building an ACC contender in Wake Forest, yet he and the Demon Deacons haven't gotten proper recognition.

www.espn.com

"Since 2015, Wake has as many first- and second-round draft picks as Texas, and in 2021, two players Clawson signed out of high school (QB Sam Hartman and tailback Kenneth Walker III, who transferred to Michigan State last spring) are among the top 10 betting favorites to win the Heisman trophy. The algorithms say they're three-star players, but Clawson knows better."

 

[strummingram]

I wonder if he'll get picked up by another school.

 

[WoadBlue]

I wonder if he'll get picked up by another school.

When he was Tennessee OC, most Vols boosters disliked him. It wasn't just that the Vols were about to fire Fulmer. It also was that Clawson refused to kow-tow to boosters. He was thrilled to be HC in the MAC rather than OC at an SEC school with a 100K stadium. he did not want to deal with super rich boosters determined to have a say in how he ran things.

His offense is weird. If he were to try to do things his way at a Florida, for example, the first year he lost to both UGA and FSU, he would be fired, unless he won the SEC East with a 10-2 record. He would offend Gators boosters deeply even winning the SEC East.

I think Clawson is going feel most comfortable at a school like Wake: Major Conference, but a small school and/or a school with little football history. It is easier to be a true maverick at such a place than at a Tennessee, Michigan, or Texas.

In addition to the maverick/independent streak, I think Clawson is one of those coaches who will be better when he is at a place that makes his team the underdog, even when it is winning game after game. He feeds on that.

I think Jim Harbaugh not winning big at Michigan is significantly due to that. Harbaugh easily and rightly had a permanent chip on his shoulder at Stanford, but Michigan has more wins all time than anybody and the largest stadium. You cannot be the poor underdog at a place like that.

 

[WoadBlue]

Bout Clawson doing "moneyball"

Dave Clawson has created college football version's of Moneyball at Wake Forest

Dave Clawson has quietly been building an ACC contender in Wake Forest, yet he and the Demon Deacons haven't gotten proper recognition.

www.espn.com

"Since 2015, Wake has as many first- and second-round draft picks as Texas, and in 2021, two players Clawson signed out of high school (QB Sam Hartman and tailback Kenneth Walker III, who transferred to Michigan State last spring) are among the top 10 betting favorites to win the Heisman trophy. The algorithms say they're three-star players, but Clawson knows better."

I think the part of this article that may be the most important for UNC to ponder is that on Jason George, "Wake's new director of integrated high performance."

 

[Rican Wolf]

I guess Clawson’s version of Moneyball doesn’t include playing defense.

 

[strummingram]

I guess Clawson’s version of Moneyball doesn’t include playing defense.

As bad as UNC's defense may be, Wake's looked worse! The run defense of Wake looked awful.