Elrod was a former Demon Deacon player and coach under Jim Grobe who was not retained when Dave Clawson was hired as head coach. He did get a job, however, on the team's radio play-by-play team where he got access to confidential team scouting and game plan information. He leaked that information to opposing teams "on several occasions" over the three years Clawson has been on the job.Former Wake Forest Demon Deacons assistant coach Tommy Elrod was fired from his post as one of the team's radio broadcasters on Tuesday after a school-led investigation revealed that he attempted to provide information regarding the team's game plan to opponents.
"Based on emails, text messages and phone records, Tommy Elrod, a radio announcer for Wake Forest football games, provided or attempted to provide confidential and proprietary game preparations on multiple occasions, starting in 2014," the school said in a press release...
Elrod is going underground and has deleted all his social media accounts and hopefully will never work anywhere around athletes, students, or human beings again. Nearly as culpable are all the teams that accepted and used the stolen information. [I'm sure you'll be shocked -- shocked -- to learn that world-renowned bastion of ethics and higher education Louisville has been the first team revealed to have received Wake game plans in advance.]
http://www.bloggersodear.com/2016/12/13/13941776/former-wake-forest-football-assistant-provided-game-plan-information-to-opponents-tommy-elrod