The deal also boosts staff and roster salary pools as the No. 13 Demon Deacons push for an ACC title.
Jake Dickert isn't going anywhere. Wake Forest announced Thursday that its head coach signed a long-term contract extension, closing the door on speculation that a bigger program might pull him away.
In just his second season in Winston-Salem, Dickert has the Demon Deacons knocking on the door of the College Football Playoff and lined up for an ACC championship appearance. That kind of turnaround at the smallest Power Four school was always going to draw outside attention, and reports this week indicated open jobs like Florida State had interest in Dickert.
The new deal does more than keep him on campus. It significantly boosts his NIL resources and staffing pool, giving Wake Forest more firepower to compete for talent at a program not used to having that kind of leverage.
Dickert arrived at Wake Forest after four seasons at Washington State, where he established himself as a program-builder. With this extension locking him in, the Demon Deacons are betting that his rebuild is just getting started.