Now-retired Wake Forest football coach Dave Clawson said he didn’t want to step down. But he did anyway.
“In my perfect world I’d be having this press conference in three or four years,” Clawson, 57, told reporters gathered in Winston Salem, N.C. on Tuesday. “But I just looked at kind of where the industry is right now, and I just felt like it was time.”
Clawson hinted that the shifting landscape of college sports, including NIL (name, image, and likeness) rules and the transfer portal, was not something he wanted to try and tackle moving forward. “You can’t do something successfully, and it’s not fair to the players or the institution if you’re doing something that your whole heart and soul isn’t into,” he said…