I don’t think he did it intentionally, but if he did he’s brilliant. “He started his slide and our kids stopped playing. “You just train your players, as soon as your quarterback starts sliding, you stop because if you touch him it’s going to be a penalty,” Clawson said. “So it’s something the NCAA is going to have to look at, and you know, you can’t fake a slide.”Ĭlawson said he’s never seen a play where a quarterback pretended to give himself up, only to keep running.

“If that is the rule, I will just have my guy fake knee all the way down the field and really, what do you do?” Clawson said. While Clawson acknowledged after the game there is no rule preventing Pickett from doing what he did, he said the NCAA should consider such a rule. Instead, Pickett made a quick cut and raced another 40 yards for a touchdown before blowing kisses to the crowd in the end zone. Two Wake Forest defenders froze, figuring Pickett was giving himself up.

(AP) - Wake Forest coach Dave Clawson said the NCAA needs to review its rules on whether quarterbacks should be allowed to “fake slide” after escaping the pocket.Ĭlawson’s statement came after his team’s 45-21 loss to Pittsburgh in the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game Saturday night in which Panthers quarterback Kenny Pickett used a fake slide to freeze defenders and run for a 58-yard touchdown on the game’s first possession.Īfter Pickett broke containment on a third-down run, he briefly stutter-stepped and pretended to slide after picking up the first down.

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