WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Gio Lopez has found comfort with the familiar, even in a new place.
The left-handed quarterback has moved on from the spotlight of NFL coaching great Bill Belichick's first college season at North Carolina. He's at Wake Forest now, another in-state Atlantic Coast Conference school that, unlike Lopez's Tar Heels, had a successful debut season under its new coach Jake **** ert.
And Lopez knows exactly what to expect with offensive coordinator Rob Ezell, who helped him thrive before at South Alabama.
"It gives me a lot of comfort, also just being with him in the spring," Lopez said during the first week of the Demon Deacons' preseason camp. "I didn't get to experience the spring last year. So just being back with him, being comfortable with Coach Ezell, knowing him since I was 16 years old. So he's known me like the back of his hand.
"So I just trust his play calls. I never really question his judgment. Just able to go out there with full-blown trust and belief in him."
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The left-handed quarterback has moved on from the spotlight of NFL coaching great Bill Belichick's first college season at North Carolina. He's at Wake Forest now, another in-state Atlantic Coast Conference school that, unlike Lopez's Tar Heels, had a successful debut season under its new coach Jake **** ert.
And Lopez knows exactly what to expect with offensive coordinator Rob Ezell, who helped him thrive before at South Alabama.
"It gives me a lot of comfort, also just being with him in the spring," Lopez said during the first week of the Demon Deacons' preseason camp. "I didn't get to experience the spring last year. So just being back with him, being comfortable with Coach Ezell, knowing him since I was 16 years old. So he's known me like the back of his hand.
"So I just trust his play calls. I never really question his judgment. Just able to go out there with full-blown trust and belief in him."
#lopez
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