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Message: [QUOTE="dinosaurbbq, post: 910174, member: 1333"] Moontan -- I agree that calling him a dud before he starts is unfair and he might turn out to be a great coach and win some games at Wake. I don't think it will happen. Here's why: The upside: 1. I'll give him credit for being an incredibly smart guy. A degree from Williams College is far more impressive than a degree from Harvard or Yale. It is where the smartest of the smart go and no one gets in due to family connections or money. 2. I'll give him credit for guiding Bowling Green this season to a 10-3 record and a win over an over-rated NIU team in the Little Caesar's Bowl. 3. I'll give him credit for taking three small programs in lesser conferences from being really bad to winning conference championships at Fordham, Richmond and Bowling Green. However, here is the downside: 1. In smaller conferences, a really smart coach can take a team from being really bad to winning a championship relatively quickly. In the Power 5, that doesn't happen. It doesn't happen because athleticism and talent almost always wins. Just about every team in the ACC has more talent and athleticism than Wake Forest. 2. The only exception to that is coaching geniuses with inventive schemes, like Hal Mumme, Mike Leach, Rich Rodriguez, or Dana Holgorsen, Those guys have beaten better, more athletic teams with scheme. Clawson doesn't have an ingenious scheme. Clawson basically does what Lou Addazio did this year, ride the most talented player on offense, whether that be the RB, QB, WR, whatever. He has depended on talent. When you are in a Power 5 conference, playing against more athletic teams, they can typically shut down that one guy and beat you. One talented guy isn't going to win you games in the ACC. 3. Wake Forest has very little talent and its best players just graduated. What talent is he going to showcase or rely upon there? 4. He is in the same division as FSU, Clemson, Syracuse and Louisville, who I believe will be the best 4 teams in the ACC this year and for the foreseeable future. Wake and BC and NC State should split games over time, but who else is he gonna beat? 5. His recruits aren't going to bring him that talent. He has 20 commits, 9 of them 3 star, 11 are 2 star. 6. No one on his coaching staff screams success. He doesn't have great recruiters. He doesn't have great scheme guys as coordinators or position coaches. 7. Wake doesn't care a whole lot about its football team. [/QUOTE]

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