Preview for tomorrow afternoon.

Programming: I won't be there, but will have full coverage from a freelancer (David Kehrli, worked at the Burlington Times-News after I did).

Preview for tomorrow night's game.

Programming: I'll be there with full coverage. Looking forward to a high-level game. If you're there, swing by the press row (Section 113) to say hi!

Preview for tomorrow night's game.

Programming: Obviously won't be shipping up to Boston, so I'll have remote coverage as best I can.

Conor, do you know what is going on with Jewel Spear. Lady Deacs won without her, but that won't happen much. Any info here?

No preview (yet), but here's a little story on the roll Damari Monsanto has been on since his one-game benching.

Preview for tomorrow afternoon's game.

Programming note: I won't be there but will be remote-covering from home.

Previewing tomorrow night's WF-UNC game.

Programming note: I'll be there with full coverage.

Previewing tomorrow afternoon's game.

Programming note: I won't be there but we'll have a full story from Patrick Southern, a stringer who's helped in the past.

A happy Gasparilla Bowl day and more importantly, a happy Festivus to all who observe Frank Costanza's holiday.

Onto slightly more serious matters ...

Per usual, information on this board stays on this board, please.

Sam Hartman will be transferring to Notre Dame sometime after today's game, per a source.

Based on Dave Clawson's comments on a few occasions this month, it's seemed increasingly likely that Hartman wouldn't be headed to the NFL after the season, as had been the implication since the spring when Hartman originally said this would be his final season.

Here was a Clawson quote from Tuesday: "I think Sam wants to go to the NFL. He's been made aware that if he goes in the portal, there's going to be some very lucrative (NIL) opportunities for him. And it's from very specific schools. ... If Sam decides that's what he wants to do, I wish him all the best. This guy has done nothing but everything right for five years at Wake Forest. And I don't want to do anything to hurt him or what he's going to do.

"I think Sam wants to play really well in the bowl game. He wants to finish his Wake Forest career on a high and I'm sure he'll take some afterward and figure out what he wants to do. And whatever decision that is, whatever choice that is, we support him 100%. ... I told him, 'Whatever you do, Sam, there's no hard feelings.'"

Notre Dame's QB situation is: Tyler Buchner won the starting job in fall camp but suffered a season-ending injury in the second game. He was replaced by Drew Pyne, who was decent -- 2,021 yards, 22 TDs, 6 INTs, 108 yards and 2 TDs rushing -- but transferred to Arizona State.

It seems likely Hartman will be in a competition with Buchner for the starting role in 2023.

ND and Wake Forest play in South Bend next season (Oct. 28). ND's ACC road games next season are Duke (TBD), Clemson (Nov. 4), Louisville and N.C. State (both TBD) -- kinda crazy that of the 5 ACC games, the only one at ND is Wake Forest.

My two cents: I've said since about mid-October that I've never covered another player who's been more ready to be finished with college football than Hartman. From cutting off his own presser after the Clemson game to the disappearing act in post-games, it's been a sour and bitter feel to the end of the season. That word "sour" has been used by others around the program to describe his mood in the second half of the season; dour is another good word. So it's shocking on some levels that he's going to be in college again; and then on another level, maybe I had the wrong read on the situation and he was just finished with being at Wake Forest.

Previewing tomorrow night's game.

As a programming note: I'll be there with full coverage, though I'll be double-covering the game and spread a bit thin. Crazy week.

Firing up a thread to round up any and all Gasparilla Bowl thoughts.

Here's the initial selection story.

Just wrapped up a Zoom interview with Dave Clawson, will have at least one story up this morning ... need to decide if I'm going to make a separate story out of what he said about Sam Hartman or combine it. So stay tuned.

Also as a programming note: I've covered each of Wake's last six bowl games (four publications, which hadn't dawned on me until now) and this will be the end of the streak. 10.5 hours one way for a game that's two days before Christmas is a bridge too far, unfortunately. I'll have plenty of content in the next few weeks, and then remote coverage for the game. I'll probably apply for credentials anyway on the chance that inspiration strikes ... but for now, the plan is to cover remotely.

Wrote about how much of a hellscape roster management has become.

One of the few times it feels beneficial to be covering two schools.

Story on today's news that Roll The Quad has launched.

It's a new NIL collective that -- I think -- will have more success and sustainability than the other NIL moves done in Wake's interest.

There will be more information on this in the coming weeks.

Previewing tomorrow's game at Rutgers.

As a programming note ... I'm not headed to Piscataway, as you probably could've guessed.

Ironically found out last week that Spectrum added Big Ten Network to my cable package without my knowledge and that's probably one of the reasons my bill has increased recently. So ... I'll hold off on calling them until Monday so that I can watch tomorrow's game, haha.

Previewing Wednesday night's game against App State.

As a programming note, I'll be there with full coverage.

Here are some highlights from new 2024 Wake Forest QB commit Jeremy Hecklinski from a couple of games we shot this season.

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Previewing tomorrow's game against LSU.

As a programming note: I won't be in Atlanta, but will be following along and will have a story posted shortly after the game ends.

Greetings! Wherever you are, whoever you are, I hope you're doing well.

I'm posting (and pinning) this thread as a sort of pulse of Deacons Illustrated. I want to open a place for you to tell me what you'd like to see more or less of on the site, what you think should be done differently, maybe where I should spend more of my time/energy.

This is apropos of nothing in particular -- I just want to have some kind of outlet for yall to have input on the content of the site. It's kind of dawned on me in the last 5 months that this is the really the first time in my professional career that I haven't had an editor making assignments (with the exception of Wake Up, which was more passion project than professional), so I'm trying to create a way to get some feedback.

Don't hold back; nothing is out of bounds.

The transfer portal officially opens Monday and it's already been incredibly busy. We have you covered. Rivals has all the latest news on the biggest transfers, we're now ranking every entry into the portal and we also have a message board to talk about everything portal-related.

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Preview for tomorrow night's game at Clemson.

Programming note: I'll have remote coverage from home. I kind of regret not getting credentialed in light of Tuesday night's win ... but driving 6-7 hours roundtrip and getting home around 2 a.m. didn't seem like the best of ideas.

Previewing tomorrow night's game.

Adding in: I've got it referenced in there that Jahcobi Neath didn't play in Wisconsin's last 3 games ... I'm curious as to why and haven't found an answer. One story mentions that he was suspended; Twitter mentions all say it's because of an injury.

If it's a suspension ... it's his third one in four seasons of college basketball. He was suspended last year for the post-game fight with Michigan. He was suspended in his first season at Wake because of the Disneyland incident.

Here's a full disclosure rundown of my All-ACC teams and awards.

Let me know who I missed!

Preview for tomorrow's Hampton-WF game.

Programming note: Given it's Wake's last home game for 2.5 weeks, I hate the timing of this. I'll be covering the football game in Durham and will have a quick staff report on the game posted sometime before football kicks off.

I've been dropping the ball on posting threads for basketball games -- my bad.

Here's the story from tonight's game.