College Football Hits a New Low

[silverscreenselect]

A Wake Forest radio announcer has been fired after a school investigation concluded that he had been leaking team strategy and other information to opponents, including Louisville (who beat Wake Forest 44-12 this season). Tommy Elrod was a former WF player and coach who had served as a football analyst for three seasons. Supposedly, this had been going on for the three seasons Elrod worked as an announcer and had access to team meetings, but it only came to light when Louisville left some material behind in the locker room after the game indicating they knew about some new plays WF planned to run during the game.

I can believe that Louisville would keep something like this quiet, because Bobby Petrino is a slug, but I would like to think other ACC coaches would have more integrity. Plus, it's not like they needed a lot of help to beat Wake Forest, a team that went 3-9, 3-9, and 6-6 the last three years.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nc ... /95396444/

[BackInTex]

A Wake Forest radio announcer has been fired after a school investigation concluded that he had been leaking team strategy and other information to opponents, including Louisville (who beat Wake Forest 44-12 this season). Tommy Elrod was a former WF player and coach who had served as a football analyst for three seasons. Supposedly, this had been going on for the three seasons Elrod worked as an announcer and had access to team meetings, but it only came to light when Louisville left some material behind in the locker room after the game indicating they knew about some new plays WF planned to run during the game.

I can believe that Louisville would keep something like this quiet, because Bobby Petrino is a slug, but I would like to think other ACC coaches would have more integrity. Plus, it's not like they needed a lot of help to beat Wake Forest, a team that went 3-9, 3-9, and 6-6 the last three years.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nc ... /95396444/

Not like they needed help because the team did poorly? Did poorly during the time this was going on? Really?

Yeah, I know, WF is not the powerhouse it once was, but the way you phrased it above tickled me.

[TheConfessor]

"Louisville was prepared for plays the Demon Deacons had not run before." Hey, that's not fair! And no Jeopardy! contestant should ever prepare to answer clues that have not been asked before. It wouldn't be right.

Whatever the attempted leaked information was, it was found the day before the game by someone from Wake Forest, in the press box, according to some reports. If Louisville had access to it and used it, they must have waited until the 4th quarter, when they trailed 12-10 before scoring 34 points in the final 11 minutes to win 44-12. But Wake Forest still beat the point spread (35 points).

Wake Forest seems to be damning several schools with innuendo but no actual facts. Here's a Louisville reporter's perspective:
http://www.wdrb.com/story/34046737/craw ... ons-remain

And here's another:
http://www.courier-journal.com/story/sp ... /95404374/

[elwoodblues]

They are calling this Wakeyleaks.

[silverscreenselect]

Virginia Tech has confirmed that it received information from Elrod prior to playing Wake Forest in 2014 (in the ACC, most teams in opposite divisions, like Wake and VPI, only play each other approximately every six years). Wake beat VPI that year 6-3 in double overtime in a game that was scoreless at the end of regulation and is considered one of the worst games in ACC history.

http://www.espn.com/college-football/st ... ider-intel