Inside The Forest: A Wake Forest Athletics Podcast

Jake Dickert's squad had little trouble with the Stanford Cardinal coming cross country, who stood out from the one-sided affair?

Meanwhile Steve Forbes' squad fell in an exhibition at home. What did each player show us?

Fresh off an appearance on the back of the Demon Deacon's motorcycle, Wake Forest legend Al-Farouq Aminu joins the show to talk a litany of topics from his time at Wake to being one of the drivers of bringing guys back to Winston-Salem

With a loaded sports weekend on deck Demon Deacon Digest's Cam Lemons talks through the matchups on the gridiron Wake Forest needs to win to avoid a letdown against Stanford. Afterwards, what does he want to see from the men's basketball team against Georgetown in an exhibition

Wake Forest basketball got some good news Wednesday afternoon as big man Justin Abson received a temporary injunction and is eligible for the season (for now). Demon Deacon Digest's Cam Lemons walks through what he can bring to the team this year at a coveted position.

After, Cam talks football's matchup against Louisville and Wake needs to do to pull the upset.

Demon Deacon Digest's Cam Lemons walks through the loss against Miami and what each position can take away from it and apply to Saturday's huge matchup on the road against Louisville

(0:30) - Expectations going into the game

(7:21) - The Gio Lopez show

(14:00) - Getting more out of the running backs

(18:22) - Golden opportunities for pass catchers

(24:58) - Ups and downs on the offensive line

(33:15) - How the defense found their groove

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Ahead of Friday night's game hosting Miami , Demon Deacon Digest's Cam Lemons invites Inside TheU's Gaby Urrutia onto the show to preview the Hurricanes coming off a season where they narrowly fell to Indiana in the CFP title game and have started off 2026 hot

(1:00) - Bouncing back from CFP

(4:42) - Learns from first two games for Miami

(6:45) - Questions on defense

(17:10) - Walking through the offense

(25:00) - Keys to the game

You can subscribe to Inside The Forest on Spotify. As always, five-star reviews and comments on Apple Podcasts and Spotify are appreciated!

Also, you can watch the show on YouTube now. We'll do live streams as well, and you can get notifications on when we're live by subscribing to our Youtube channel.

Wake Forest had one of the most exciting games of the year, going on the road against Purdue. They had to pick themselves up off the mat after seemingly being in control, but won in double overtime 38-36 on the back of an outstanding effort by Gio Lopez. Demon Deacon Digest's Cam Lemons walks through a postgame reaction with the good, the bad, and everything in between

You can subscribe to Inside The Forest on Spotify. As always, five-star reviews and comments on Apple Podcasts and Spotify are appreciated!

Also, you can watch the show on YouTube now. We'll do live streams as well, and you can get notifications on when we're live by subscribing to our Youtube channel.

Needing to learn more about a school almost 600 miles away, Boiler Sport Report's Sean Williams joins host Cam Lemons to guide everyone through what the 2026 Purdue Boilermakers look like

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Turning the page to Purdue, Wake Forest has a good opportunity to get some momentum heading into ACC play after looking around the conference in week 1. Demon Deacon Digest's Cam Lemons walks through what's got him encouraged through one (1) week of football. Plus tying up some loose ends with basketball

(0:44) - Quick basketball update

(5:49) - Football recruiting monitoring a couple of commits

(9:22) - Initial thoughts health of Wake

(14:55) - Opportunity for Wake Forest football

(20:09) - Initial thoughts on the Purdue roster

You can subscribe to Inside The Forest on Spotify. As always, five-star reviews and comments on Apple Podcasts and Spotify are appreciated!

Also, you can watch the show on YouTube now. We'll do live streams as well, and you can get notifications on when we're live by subscribing to our Youtube channel.

Demon Deacon Digest's Cam Lemons walks through the 38-16 win against Akron by position, highlighting the good, the bad and everything in between.

(1:00) - Gio Lopez looking comfortable

(7:03) - Running back room review

(10:25) - Initial thoughts on offense

(19:16) - Some really good from the OL and some really poor

(28:21) - Overall thoughts on the defense

(35:36) - Starting defensive ends popped

(40:37) - Vinny Firenze arrives

You can subscribe to Inside The Forest on Spotify. As always, five-star reviews and comments on Apple Podcasts and Spotify are appreciated!

Also, you can watch the show on YouTube now. We'll do live streams as well, and you can get notifications on when we're live by subscribing to our Youtube channel.