Deacons Morning Practice Was Out of Sight
Good thing I made it by practice this morning. Otherwise I would have missed the scoop of my career.
Wake Forest has incorporated stealth technology in its uniforms. The Deacons were obviously practicing, because they were scheduled to from 9:30 to noon. But I couldn’t see a soul on the fields alongside Manchester Athletic Center.
I swung by the football office to compliment Bonnie Rae, Coach Jim Grobe’s executive secretary and master of ceremonies and Allen Franklin, the Deacons’ video coordinator, on an innovation that would obviously change the landscape of competitive sports everywhere. We got a good laugh, which is not hard to do in the football office and Bonnie told me what even I had already figured out, that the first of two practices scheduled for today had been postponed because of the rain.
And who should walk through the front door but Grobe himself. I told him I had a readership that was clamoring. He said as coach of Wake Forest, he knows all about clamoring. And then he asked what you guys were clamoring about. I told him you wanted to know the latest on Devon Brown, the junior wide receiver who injured his medial collateral ligament in yesterday’s scrimmage.
Grobe said that he didn’t know any more than he did yesterday. An MRI was performed last night, but the medical staff had yet to analyze the results and report back to Grobe. He said there might be more news by tonight’s practice, scheduled for 7 p.m.
I asked him if the staff was confident it could save the leg, and Grobe said absolutely. So obviously it could have been worse.