Bob Davie screwed the pooch when he bent over backwards to accommodate that diva's (Leak's) demands.

CJ Leak insisted that we recruit no other quarterbacks that year, and that we not recruit any more quarterbacks for two more years, in addition to promising him the starting job. While Davie did agree to the first two demands, he still told Leak that he had to earn the job, which seemed to placate Leak for the time being.

In the end, Jim Caldwell upped the ante and promised Leak that he would start as a freshman at Wake Forest, in addition to the other demands, but Leak could never beat out a very mediocre Ben Sankey in 1999, or a terrible James MacPherson in 2000. Still, this kind of snake oil sales pitches, along with someone being a diva, ended up putting us in a pretty bad quarterbacking situation in 1999, and arguably, in 2000. I guess one could say that Jim Caldwell perfected the art of Urban Meyering before Urban Meyer made it his mode of operation...

Yes, Matt Lovecchio did a nice job of running things, but the playbook was severely cut down in order to accommodate a true freshman, and in all honesty, with an experienced QB leading the team in 2000, we should have gone undefeated through the regular season with all of that NFL talent on that team.