A black marker and a yellow pencil crossed over grid paper with a pink eraser beside a smudge.

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Jim Grobe

When people used to see Wake Forest on the schedule, they used a pen to mark down a ‘W.’ We’re at the point now where we at least make them use a pencil.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

A rueful joke about reputation: opponents used to mark a win in permanent pen when Wake Forest was on the schedule, and now they at least have to use pencil, meaning erasable. It's modest, self-deprecating progress measured in stationery.

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