AHD reminded me of this yesterday - the Carolina Panthers fired Warren Belin last year. He was just retained as Wake Forest's linebackers coach after serving in the same capacity in Winston-Salem last season. Of course, as new Wake Forest coach Dave Clawson points out, Belin is a Demon Deacon at heart:
But how much does Belin love his alma mater? I'm sure Pruitt has plenty of names in mind. I remember seeing Belin at the 2011 GDay a couple months after he left Athens for the NFL. He was there with most of his family, I assume to watch his former players and catch up with friends. Now I wonder if his name might come up in Richt's old rolodex.“There’s a guy who played here, who has great love of Wake Forest,” Clawson said. “I mean, this is his school.“In the recruiting process you could just get a great sense of his genuineness, not just for the players in the program and the recruits, but for his genuine love of Wake Forest. And Warren was a guy who I was able to connect a lot of dots with. A lot of people I know well know Warren well, and in coaching it’s a small fraternity.“People I really like and really respect, they told me their feelings about Warren. And I spent time on the road with him in recruiting. I thought if Warren was somewhere out (there), I’d be trying to get him to Wake Forest.”
