FUCK YOU, RON WELLMAN

[donaldross]

With the 2 #winners I gave him (knowing full well he wouldn't dare bet ETSU due to recently developed resentment), he should have acquired enough capital to build the dorm

I missed seeing your winners. I just bet all 32 dogs every year.

Yea I don't show up all that often. I'm kinda busy. Maybe I'll hang out here more now. I know that will please some folks.

 

[wfu22fan]

Mooney is what Ron thought [name redacted] was. He built a program that 'does things the right [OWG] way' at a challenging academic school and was the #2 when Joe Scott did the same thing at Air Force.

If anyone is interested, for unclear reasons (/procrastination for something much more important), I wrote 1600 words about the [name redacted] saga and posted it on a Texas A&M message board (coaching carousel season makes me go crazy):

What a nightmare. Did we really beat #2 ranked Miami, a top 15 NCSU team, Duke and UNC at home that last year? Manning needs to do that in year 4.

 

[DeaconSig]

We didn't. We beat Miami in year 3.

 

[awakegirl]

Um, no.

People were not clamoring for a coach with a career record of 184-224 who was 1 year away from being fired at Colorado. Not even close.

Hindsight says that outside of Brad Stevens (and then-High Point assistant Wes Miller, obviously), there was not a really good hire to make by Wake when Wellman fired Gaudio. Brownell, Mooney, Groce- all of those guys would have probably sucked. You can blame Wellman for either a) firing Gaudio before Stevens was in the bag or 2) firing him a year early. But you can also blame Wellman for hiring about the worst possible coach he could find.

Only the most blatant "In Wellman I trust" fans (the types that believed Daniel Green and Myles Overton were going to be legit ACC players), weren't horrified when [name redacted] was hired. He was an objectively bad hire at the time.

This. There were like two people who kept telling the rest of us to give him a chance. I'd love to pull up those threads bc this is ridiculous revisionist history.

 

[donaldross]

Chris Mack looking to get to his 5th Sweet 16 in 8 years at Xavier. But someone here said it's unrealistic to expect Wake to get to 3 in 10.

 

[deaconson]

This. There were like two people who kept telling the rest of us to give him a chance. I'd love to pull up those threads bc this is ridiculous revisionist history.

Too bad 81 never showed up here. Loved that guy.

 

[Ayo]

Too bad 81 never showed up here. Loved that guy.

RJKarl still shows up plenty.

 

[HailToTheDeacons]

I bet Wellman is at the Women's NIT game tonight.

Who's going to step up, show up, and stare at him?

 

[donaldross]

No one gives a shit about women's basketball.

 

[Deacfreak07]

No one gives a shit about women's basketball.

I do, but I care about Wake Forest.

 

[coredeac]

No one gives a shit about women's basketball.

Soon, you will be beaten to death with soccer and tennis.

 

[WFU Lurker]

We didn't. We beat Miami in year 3.

Well at least we are far enough removed that all of those years have started to blend.

 

[HailToTheDeacons]

donaldross - does he speak to you at the tennis matches and baseball games?

Or do you guys prefer to share a cup of tea at golf tournaments and soccer matches?

I guess I can infer the answer to the above questions.

No one gives a shit about women's basketball.

 

[tigerswood]

This guy has to be a parody. There is no way a #winner would be posting on a Wake Forest message board while "living it up" in Las Vegas on one of the biggest sports days of the year.

 

[Milhouse]

Soon, you will be beaten to death with soccer and tennis.

TENNIS!

 

[sailordeac]

No one gives a shit about women's basketball.

true, the women's game is much inferior to the men's, you can see much better basketball than women's basketball in any urban schoolyard

 

[jhmd2000]

What a nightmare. Did we really beat #2 ranked Miami, a top 15 NCSU team, Duke and UNC at home that last year? Manning needs to do that in year 4.

It's impressive to miss the tournament this way. No easy effort.

 

[PhDeac]

We would care about women's hoops if we were good.

 

[donaldross]

We would care about women's hoops if we were good.

We'd have to be UCONN/TN good. They can't say it but I can: this is a 2 sport game. The rest is intermurals.

 

[Deacfreak07]

We'd have to be UCONN/TN good. They can't say it but I can: this is a 2 sport game. The rest is intermurals.

Can't tell if you meant to type intermurals or not? :squint: