DeaconPeach
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DG doesn't have sources. He was wrong so many times about the UNC Investigation based on his "sources"...
DG is such a smug pompous wannabe. I hate DG almost as much as Buzz.
DG doesn't have sources. He was wrong so many times about the UNC Investigation based on his "sources"...
David Glenn Show @DavidGlennShow
DG's sources at WF: heading into postseason evaluation of [Redacted], key decision-makers "overwhelmingly' in favor of keeping him for 13-14
I agree that Wake is a national school and that we shouldn't let admissions slide for athletic support.
Being a townie and a student though, I can tell you that Wake is looked at by most young students as a "yankee school with no local support." Some great kids who got into other great schools weren't accepted in that class, and would have made great students (and great fans) for four years. My 2 cents.
It was worse in the 90's. Nobody even wore Wake colors to basketball games. The Screamin Deacons were referred to as the Screamin Semens and had horrible black t-shirts with just the Deacon head logo on them. At that time, over 40% of the student body was from NC. Nobody ever went in to the football games. Tailgated, went home, watched an SEC game and checked the radio or the 1990's shit internet for the Wake score.
Do you not think we didn't have these EXACT same complaints about the students and fanbase in 1999-2003? Of course we did. That was what made Skip Prosser coming to wake in my junior year so great. He turned it all around. And he didn't do it by changing the fans.
DG doesn't have sources. He was wrong so many times about the UNC Investigation based on his "sources"...
David Glenn Show @DavidGlennShow
DG's sources at WF: heading into postseason evaluation of [Redacted], key decision-makers "overwhelmingly' in favor of keeping him for 13-14
I can't tell if this is a real post or not. If it's real, then no. Wake is not a state school, and there is no reason to give anyone who merely lives nearby any preference just for potential athletic support.
I'm guessing the key decision-makers are people beholden to Wellman.
According to Princeton Review, Wake is at 77% out of state and 3% international.
http://www.princetonreview.com/WakeForestUniversity.aspx
By comparison, Duke is 89% out of state and 11% international.
Was about 30% when I was there - that's really quite large. If you include SC and VA, still a majority of the school coming from the immediate area. Why hate on the fact that Wake is a great school and that peeps from all over the country now try to attend? What is so bad about that? Wake has done its best to maintain its roots and charm of having an NC identity...heck, that's what I loved about it. NC is now like my adopted home state. I LOVE THE WAY YOU BALL NORTH CAROLINA