Wake Forest Head Coach Dave Clawson met with the media for his weekly press conference yesterday. Below is everything he had to say about NC State.
And then the challenge this week is a very good and very talented NC State team. This is, I think the 12th or 13th time Coach Dave Doeren and I have brought our teams against each other and Dave’s an excellent coach. He’s the all-time wins leader at North Carolina State. They’ve had a very consistent, successful program under his leadership. When you look at their roster, you can see why the expectations this year were so high for them. It starts upfront with them. They have 110 combined, starts on the offensive line.
They’re big, they’re physical. The tackle (Anthony) Belton is an outstanding player. Their skill is, I mean it’s elite. (Kevin) Concepcion was the ACC Rookie of the Year. He’s one of the top perimeter players in the ACC. The back they got from Duke, Jordan Waters, we thought was one of the very best running backs in the ACC last year. Noah Rogers, who they got from I think Ohio State and (Dacari) Collins that they got from Clemson, their flex tight end (Justin) Joly is a good player. The receiver (Jalen) Coit is also a returner for them. And then they have one that we know really well. Wesley Grimes, who certainly looks really, really good on film as well. So they have elite skill. They have a true freshman quarterback. We don’t know who we’re going to see. We’re assuming it’s Bailey, but Bailey was a guy that we had in our camp and liked him a lot.…