Running Shotgun No Snap
If you’ve noticed that Wake Forest is running everything from a shotgun, keep looking.
Offensive coordinator Steed Lobotzke said in the spring that the Deacons emerged from the Riley Skinner era as a predominantly shotgun team, but that doesn’t mean we’ll never see another quarterback up under center. Though I don’t think we’ll see it as soon at Thursday’s 3 p.m. scrimmage at BB&T Field, we just might.
But remember how the Deacons, with Russ Nenon and Chance Raines hurt, were having so much trouble getting the shotgun snaps back to the quarterback during the spring, and how it really mucked up the spring scrimmage? That, Coach Jim Grobe explained the other day, is why we’ve yet to see a quarterback under center.
“That’s the one thing we haven’t put in yet,’’ Grobe siad. “We haven’t gone under center.
“The hardest thing to do is take a shotgun snap, not necessarily catching it, but for the center to get it back there. The snap in the shotgun and run-blocking is really tough on a center, so we feel like we’re just going to hit the hardest stuff as long as we can. We’ve been under center so much with Riley, I don’t think any of our centers will have a problem when we decide to do some under-center stuff.’‘