WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (WGHP) — Wake Forest University is set to hire its next head football coach. Demon Deacon Digest reports that Washington State University's Jake Dickert has agreed to become the next head coach of Wake Forest football. Longtime WFU head coach Dave Clawson stepped down from the position on Monday creating a vacancy the Demon Deacons have acted swiftly to fill. Dickert, 41, has been the head coach at Washington State since 2022. He served as interim head coach in 2021 taking over for the team's final six games of that season. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 14: Head coach Jake Dickert of the Washington State Cougars lifts the Apple Cup trophy after the 2024 Boeing Apple Cup game against the Washington Huskies at Lumen Field on September 14, 2024 in Seattle, Washington. The Washington State Cougars won 24-19. (Photo by Alika Jenner/Getty Images) In his three-and-a-half seasons at Washington State, Dickert went 23-20. The Cougars went 8-4 this season.