But those who did speak to them theorized he was motivated by revenge after losing his role as an assistant coach after Dave Clawson replaced Jim Grobe as Wake Forest head coach ahead of the 2014 season. Meanwhile, Elrod declined comment to The Athletic. A key part of was him logging in to review film at odd hours, which led to the team getting records of his phone calls and texts to opposing coaches. And the piece also goes through the details of how Elrod communicated this information to opposing coaches, and how he was eventually caught. So there’s some notable commentary there on what this meant for the people involved, and the tangible impacts it had on at least some plays.
“They know everything we’re doing as we’re doing it!” “They know what the hell we’re doing!” he said on the sideline. …After another stalled drive, Hayworth walked off the field in frustration. Rankins settled in front of the receiver peeling back and picked off the shovel pass as if he was the target all along. Rankins blew past Terry’s right shoulder, ignoring Wolford and the running back headed left. Just a true freshman, Terry wondered: “Can I call a timeout right now and still be on scholarship?” “So when he said that, it’s like going into war and someone knowing where your bunker is. “I had Sheldon Rankins that play - I had to block him,” Terry says. … Terry says Rankins took a knee and hollered, “Shovel pass is coming! Shovel pass is coming!” Terry was stunned. “If this involved Clemson or someplace like that, this would’ve been the biggest deal of all time - all of college football would’ve been paused to figure out what was going on.” “It was really f-d up and it went on for so long,” a Wake Forest assistant says. So what’s perhaps particularly interesting about a new piece from Bruce Feldman, Matt Fortuna and Jayson Jenks of The Athletic looking back at WakeyLeaks is some of the comments it includes from players and coaches who were on the Demon Deacon teams impacted by this. In all of those discussions, though, there’s been debate about the impact, with many arguing that this doesn’t mean much. We saw it in the NFL with Spygate and the New England Patriots, we’ve since seen it in MLB with sign-stealing discussion around the Houston Astros, Boston Red Sox, and New York Yankees, and those are just a couple of the most prominent examples where this has come up. The discussion of improperly-obtained information on sports opponents is not a new one.
But many of the coaches named then remain in college football today then-Army defensive coordinator Jay Bateman is now the Florida Gators’ inside linebackers’ coach, then Louisville co-offensive coordinator Lonnie Galloway is now an assistant head coach and wide receivers coach for the North Carolina Tar Heels, and then-Virginia Tech assistant head coach/running backs coach Shane Beamer is now the head coach of the South Carolina Gamecocks. Some of the assistant coaches he leaked information to at other schools received fines and suspensions as well.
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That investigation eventually spotlighted Wake Forest radio analyst Tommy Elrod (seen above), a former Demon Deacons’ player and coach, and concluded that he had given play information to a series of assistant coaches at other schools over years.Įlrod was fired from his radio role by IMG after that, and banned from Wake Forest games. After a 44-12 loss to the Louisville Cardinals that November, Wake Forest Demon Deacons football coach Dave Clawson discussed a potential “ security breach” that saw Louisville end up with game plan information, and said they would investigate. The 2016 “WakeyLeaks” scandal remains one of the strangest things to happen in college football recently.
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