Scandal at Ricky Proehl's alma mater

[Mr. Scot]

This is pretty wild.

Investigation leads to firing of radio announcer 

Following the Louisville football game on Nov. 12, Wake Forest conducted a thorough investigation to determine if confidential and proprietary game preparation information had been compromised.

The investigation was not limited to the situation with Louisville and was comprehensive in nature, the university said in the release.

According to the release, the investigation determined the following:

Based on emails, text messages and phone records, Tommy Elrod, a radio announcer for Wake Forest football games, provided or attempted to provide confidential and proprietary game preparations on multiple occasions, starting in 2014.

No members of the Wake Forest athletic department, football staff or players were involved in any way in these actions.

Tommy Elrod is an alumnus of Wake Forest and was a member of the football team from 1993-1997. He later was hired as a graduate assistant under Jim Grobe and held multiple positions for 11 seasons. He was not retained by Dave Clawson and joined the Wake Forest IMG Radio Network in 2014 as a football analyst covering Wake Forest football.

Elrod has been terminated immediately from his position at IMG and will no longer broadcast Wake Forest football games. He has been banned from Wake Forest athletics and its facilities.

[electro's horse]

This is your most pathetic attempt ever to make something panthers related

[Mr. Scot]

2 minutes ago, electro's horse said:

This is your most pathetic attempt ever to make something panthers related

I disagree.

I'm sure I've done far worse.

[Mage]

How did a radio announcer get that kind of information?

[truthjuice]

Who gave him the information? Was that done as some sort of revenge because he wasn't retained when the new guy came? Strange stuff. 

[Mr. Scot]

8 minutes ago, Mage said:

How did a radio announcer get that kind of information?

Access to the facilities?

My biggest question is why an alumnus would do this to their own school.

Guessing there's gotta be money involved.

[csx]

And will this lead to Petrino and others  buying game plans? that's even more parhetic

[MountainHeel66]

I think truthjuice has this one nailed. They didn't retain him and he did it as a fug you to the new staff.

[pstall]

How many plays did Wake have at that time? 3

Dude probably wrote it on a napkin from Waffle house.  The only reason the other coaches took it because it smelled like pecan waffles.

[Mr. Scot]

15 minutes ago, MountainHeel66 said:

I think truthjuice has this one nailed. They didn't retain him and he did it as a fug you to the new staff.

Makes sense.

Lotta spite there, if so.

[Davidson Deac II]

If this is true, I have to wonder why. Wake has a pretty good defense this year, but their offense died when the starting qb went down with an injury.  Louisville has a Heisman qb and scores a lot of points.  Its baffling

[Mr. Scot]

2 minutes ago, Davidson Deac II said:

If this is true, I have to wonder why. Wake has a pretty good defense this year, but their offense died when the starting qb went down with an injury.  Louisville has a Heisman qb and scores a lot of points.  Its baffling

Your screen name tells me you have an interest in this.

If I read right, it was with multiple teams and not just Louisville.

[Davidson Deac II]

6 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Your screen name tells me you have an interest in this.

If I read right, it was with multiple teams and not just Louisville.

Yeah, I was reading the same thing on the Wake boards.  I still have to ask why? Wake's offense this year makes Shula look like Air Coryell.   

 

Its kind of cool actually.  They were so scared of Wake they had to cheat to beat us.  At least that is what I will be telling all the UNC fans at the office.  God I hope UNC is one of the ones that got ahold of it.  After the academic scandal, that would be the icing on the cake.  Throw in Duke and Christmas comes early this year.  :)

[csx]

12 minutes ago, Davidson Deac II said:

If this is true, I have to wonder why. Wake has a pretty good defense this year, but their offense died when the starting qb went down with an injury.  Louisville has a Heisman qb and scores a lot of points.  Its baffling

It's been happening since 2014 , not just for this game.

Having lived in Louisville and attended a few games I can't stand that school