No Offense, No Defense, No Hope!: The Underdog Football Memoir That Shocked College Sports - Paperback

by David D. Doda (Author)

"No Offense, No Defense, No Hope!"

That's what the sportswriters said about Wake Forest football in 1970.

They were wrong.

In 1970, while Kent State burned and the draft lottery determined who would go to Vietnam, seventy-three young men on a small Southern campus discovered what they were made of.

Their new coach had one mission: transform perennial losers into champions. The price? Brutal conditioning designed to break them. Most quit. The ones who stayed would face a season where everything that could go wrong did-until it didn't.

Wake Forest entered the season picked to finish last in the conference. What happened next shocked the college football world.

This isn't just about football. It's about racism, loss, and the draft lottery. About a pioneering female sportswriter and young men who refused to accept impossible. It's about 1970-a year that tested everyone who lived through it.

Written by David D. Doda, Ph.D., who played tight end on that championship team. Fifty-five years later, he's telling the story the way only someone who was there can tell it.

Some victories are bigger than the scoreboard.