ACC Kickoff<\/a> this week about what the landscape looks like when you are not given the same financial resources as others, but are still expected to compete with them.<\/p>\n\u201cI think you\u2019ve got to control your mindset with it,\u201d he said in response to our question about how to compete with the schools that spend. \u201cOne of my pet peeves with our game is that there are so many excuses. So if we\u2019re not good, next year I just get to come up here with a free excuse that we don\u2019t have this and that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dickert is no stranger to working with financial smoke and mirrors. He was, after all, an assistant coach at many much smaller schools. From the main stage in the press conference room, he addressed that topic.<\/p>\n
What Wake Forest Can Do for You<\/h3>\n
\u201cWell, at D3 I sold raffle tickets to get into fall camp, so I don’t know if that’s what you’re referring to. Every level of college football, every place has challenges, right?\u201d He added, \u201cThe big thing that I think at Wake Forest we know where we are. There’s this corporation of football going on, but, you know, if we think and act like Miami, we’re not going to be successful, right? If we believe in action that we’re going to be Clemson and their roster-building, it’s just not going to be successful.\u201d<\/p>\n
He described the environment at his current coaching stop: \u201cThere’s a perfect lane of Wake Forest football. We need to push. We need to advance. We need to realize that football is a tremendous investment, and we’re always going to do it a certain way. I think that’s the role that I accept,\u201d he said. \u201cOnce again, there are no excuses. I think that’s really important. That’s our mindset.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Three Tiers of the ACC<\/h3>\n
That gets us back to our Q&A with him on that topic. Dickert has acknowledged to us in the past that he sees three tiers of spending schools in the ACC, and he believes Wake Forest is in the third of the three tiers. He said on Friday that he just has to learn to work with the realities.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re a developmental program. There\u2019s a disadvantage to doing it that way in today\u2019s world,\u201d he said. We don\u2019t get to just pull and plug players. But we\u2019ve got to believe and be convicted in who we are more than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said he still has the belief that continued success with the program can bring investment that could get Wake Forest into the second of the three tiers. \u201cWe have a plan to go do that, and I think our people are more energized than ever to go do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
He did plant a flag in the ground about the impact of the money and his coaching colleagues. He said, \u201cWe\u2019re going to see who\u2019s the good coaches and who just has the biggest payroll.\u201d<\/p>\n
We will have more coverage of Wake Forest from ACC media days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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