It had been two months, almost to the day, when Wake Forest’s football team last practiced.
So with Monday’s first spring practice, there was understandably some rust.
“The rust is that there’s guys who are now in roles they haven’t been before. The rust is every year you make schematic adjustments and so we’re not going to be exactly what we were a year ago, on both sides of the football,” Coach Dave Clawson said. “You have your plan for what you want to be, and you have the steps to implement that plan. And it’s not just, ‘Hey, we’re doing exactly what we did a year ago, let’s do it again.