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Official Hoops Coaching Search Thread - Welcome Danny Manning!!!

wfupdx said:
I truly don't understand what Ron has been doing for the last 10 days. Even if we were "waiting on Shaka", outside of Miller everybody has been out of the tournament for plenty of time. Hell, USF has essentially hired 3 different people in a week. These deals can't be that complicated--its not like we are negotiating terms with Iran over nuclear reactors. Someone is either interested or not and they then weigh that offer against their current gig. We must be marching methodically lower and lower on our list....
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Well,USF did hire someone they had to fire in less than 2 hours. So perhaps there is something to all this diligence and interviewing stuff. Has Marquette hired anyone yet? Weren't they rejected by Shaka Smart on Tuesday?
 
JohnToms said:
Anyone who wanted john pelphrey in 2002 should shut up about manning

Manning would be a great hire.
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Sorry but your definition of "great" does not agree with most of us here, based on comments....not even close...

I'll give you a "good hire" but with reservations...best I can do....
 
Sad if we end up here... Means that we aren't seen as a program worth coaching. To me, means we dipped about 10-15 deep with worthy candidates before SETTLING. The only "home-run hire" with this would be to spin it as a "T-ball home-run" - ground ball in the infield that goes through everyone's legs and gets thrown around the ball park for a mess and the proud parents tell everyone at work how their kid hit a home-run.
 
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WestchesterDeac said:
Before I even type this, I know people are going to say 1) there's that LOWF attitude and 2) you never post, who are you to comment. But here goes anyway:

While I too would love Shaka or Marshall, there is nothing in Wake Forest's past that should get people TRULY optimistic over making such a hire.

For those of you too young to remember, me not included, there was a similar attitude at the time of Bob Staak's departure (I had the privilege of watching that shit show while at Wake) - minus the energy of the internet and fan boards. At that time, the Shaka/Marshall dream equivalent was Gary Williams - it didn't end well - http://news.google.com/newspapers?n...jYdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uaUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6862,6050112 - this article makes it sound nice, the bottom line was he made it pretty clear Wake was beneath him and sure enough 8 months later he had no problem dealing with the "pressure" that came with getting the Ohio State job - http://news.google.com/newspapers?n...gMiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yaYFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5077,3515551. BTW, for $75K per year.

In contrast we ended up with Dave Odom, a guy who had most recently been an ass't at UVA for 7 years and before that head coach at ECU, of all places, for 3 years, the last 2 of which ended with losing records. Odom delivered some very good years - and I know, he had Duncan, Childress, and Rogers, but any coach we hire should recruit better than Bzz.

Eventually Odom left and we got Skip. Great in many ways, but his last 3 years at Xavier were an NCAA first round exit and two NIT appearances - not exactly an "on fire" candidate. That too worked out rather well.

Wake simply is not, as much as some want to think otherwise, Kentucky, Duke, Carolina, Kansas, UCLA, Syracuse, Louisville, or Michigan St. We're not the dream school of the hottest candidate out there.

So we can debate all night about Shaka/Marshall, but the more likely scenario is Mack or Manning or White - despite statements by our AD or whomever about "swinging for the fences". And, the odds are any of these three will work out just fine - like Skip and Odom did - our last hire was just incredibly poor in all respects, from Day 1 and we need to move on. Personally I'd like Mack - eight 4-star recruits in the last 4 years going up against some tough competition in the Midwest - Crean, Matta, Izzo etc etc. And, 4 NCAA appearances in 5 years, including two Sweet Sixteen's both times including upsets of higher ranked teams (something Wake has never been good at)
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Nice first post...
 
SkinsNDeacs said:
So are we giving up on Shaka? Crazy that there was never a formal announcement or even a leak.
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I am. If he had accepted, there had to be a leak about it today, and all we've heard was Danny Manning. If he is named our next coach, Wellman would've done a legendary job keeping it under wraps.

That said, it's still strange VCU hasn't made a public announcement that he is remaining there after he was tied to both Wake and MU's job.

Color me totally confused at this point.
 
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