WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Jake Dickert has seen college football from just about every angle.
He was a Division III quarterback-turned-receiver planning a path as a math teacher. An assistant coach painting lines on fields and cutting VHS game tapes in a climb through Division II and the Championship Subdivision. A head coach who later saw his program's power-conference home abruptly fall apart around him.
Those moments are with him now, as he prepares for his Friday debut as Wake Forest's head coach against Kennesaw State. They color how he energetically approaches everything in rebooting the Demon Deacons.