‘You only dated him’: Wake Forest head coach on Notre Dame honoring Sam Hartman on senior night

“You only dated him,” Demon Deacons head coach Dave Clawson said when he heard what the Fighting Irish said about his former quarterback.

Notre Dame honored quarterback Sam Hartman on senior night with a heartfelt video edited to Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You.”

Wake Forest head coach Dave Clawson, Hartman’s former coach and his opponent on Saturday, was less moved than the Fighting Irish faithful.

Clawson, who coached Hartman for five years with the Demon Deacons before the quarterback transferred this offseason, questioned whether a team Hartman only spent a year with could offer such sentiment.

“Here’s a guy that we recruited and we developed,” Clawson said. “Like, you only dated him for a couple of months. It can’t be love. We’re the ones that love him. We had five years with him. You rented him for a season.”

Clawson added to his comments with how the transfer portal created such a situation.

“When that video played, it’s just like, ‘Holy cow, this is where college football is,’” he said.

Hartman threw for 277 yards and four touchdowns in a 45-7 victory over his former team.