Tailgate Talk Before North Carolina
Two of the greatest receivers in Wake history are in Kenan Stadium. One will try to catch a bunch of passes today and the other will try to catch him on a video camera catching a bunch of passes.
Junior Chris Givens is having a remarkable year. If he keeps it up, he’ll have the kind of statistics Wayne Baumgardner had in 1979 in becoming the first Deacons’ receiver to amass 1,000 receiving yards in a season. Baumgarder, who caught 55 passes for an even 1,000 yards for John Mackovic’s Tangerine Bowl team, is a camera man working for ESPN. Baumgardner, as I understand it, will be in the endzone to the Deacons’ left.
The parallel is that this year’s team is almost as fun to watch play as the 1979 team that pulled off the lengendary second-half comeback to beat Auburn 42-38 and earned the school’s first trip to a bowl in 30 years. Jay Venuto throwing to Wayne Baumgardner was a serious weapon, as was handing the ball off to James McDougald.
The one thing Baumgardner has on Givens is that he has won in Kenan Stadium. Wake beat the Deacons 24-19 in 1979.
Along about 7 p.m. today we’ll see if Givens can make the same claim.
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By Dan Collins on 10/29/2011 (2:32 pm)
Comments
I think Chris brother situation effected & affected his performance, he didn’t appear into the game.
DC#68 1981 on 10/30/2011 (7:26 am)
I’ve always supported coach Grobe and I will continue to do so but he was sorely out coached today. Wake was flat from the start and I am very concerned that the team performed so poorly in such a crucial game. Doesn’t bode well for the remainder of the season considering the tough schedule ahead.
mark hege on 10/29/2011 (10:48 pm)
Baumgardner had a better game today.
Glenn Williams on 10/29/2011 (9:18 pm)
That was my senior year (OK, dating myself). The win over Auburn, plus a similar air show beating Maryland, who was an ACC power at the time, were probably the two most exciting football games I have ever seen in person.
Charles on 10/29/2011 (8:13 pm)
I’ve followed Wake football passionately for years—and it is well past time that we hold our coaches and athletic directors accountable for what they produce. Grobe is apparently not willing to fire under-performing direct reports—and it doesn’t appear that the man has ever made a decision in a game in his life. Poor decision-making skills is the worst possible quality in an executive—followed closely by the lack of backbone necessary to fire under-performers. To me it’s very simple—in every other walk of life (including classrooms at Wake), poor performance is punished. When do we stop rewarding the pathetic performance of this coach with a 7-figure compensation package?
Tired of the spin on 10/29/2011 (7:46 pm)
Game over. All I can say is “WOW”
dlb27104 on 10/29/2011 (7:11 pm)
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