 Cal Stoll was hired as Wake Forest's head coach away from Michigan State, where he served as an assistant.Stoll was able to have success with the Deacons, posting a 3–7 record his first year then back-to-back 6–5 records in his last two.In 1969, their first season under Stoll, the Demon Deacons compiled a 3–7 record and finished in seventh place in the Atlantic Coast Conference.