The chance of any ACC school making a home run hire based on today's landscape is slim. To me over the past 7 years coaches in the ACC fall into 3 categories:
Elite (tenure, success but all will need new coaches in the next few years...same hiring formula will no longer work)
K - HOF
Roy - HOF
Pitino - HOF
Boeheim - HOF
Upgrade hires (came in and improved the program, regular NCAA appearances and competing and winning ACC Championships)
Larranaga
Gott
Bennett
Brey
Dixon
Hamilton
Buzz - not quite yet on the upgrade hire list but has some good wins and put some excitement back in a dead program
Wish and a hope hires (the only way to break through is to take someone's place in the upper 2 categories...Their schools have lost their luster or never hd it)
Gregory - They stuck with him too long...like wake once a proud program
Christian - 2nd BC coach in the past 5 years and is actually worse than the guy he replaced...they probably miss Skinner
Brownell - First season good then down from there
Bizz - Shit Show
Manning - Post season or competing for an ACC Championship no where in sight...Wake is no longer relevant on the college BB stage
We're about to finish our 6th year without a postseason berth. Most of us believe that will go to 7 and likely 8. The only way to climb out of the ditch in today's landscape is for us to sign a couple MCD AA's or a couple top 15 back to back recruiting classes.
People talk about how great DM is recruiting but we're so accustomed to crap we think top 25 classes are good. Dino, Skip and Odom were all much better recruiters in year 2.
Like all of us I really want to be back in the Joel and experience the magic of Chill, TD, J Howard and CP3.
What I hang on Wellman is a total mismanagement of the program, not understanding what keeping Buzz beyond 2 years would do to us and lastly having no sound strategy on how to build and maintain a program. What he has done is fleeced the pockets of donors and built facilities with so far no return on investment.
Elite (tenure, success but all will need new coaches in the next few years...same hiring formula will no longer work)
K - HOF
Roy - HOF
Pitino - HOF
Boeheim - HOF
Upgrade hires (came in and improved the program, regular NCAA appearances and competing and winning ACC Championships)
Larranaga
Gott
Bennett
Brey
Dixon
Hamilton
Buzz - not quite yet on the upgrade hire list but has some good wins and put some excitement back in a dead program
Wish and a hope hires (the only way to break through is to take someone's place in the upper 2 categories...Their schools have lost their luster or never hd it)
Gregory - They stuck with him too long...like wake once a proud program
Christian - 2nd BC coach in the past 5 years and is actually worse than the guy he replaced...they probably miss Skinner
Brownell - First season good then down from there
Bizz - Shit Show
Manning - Post season or competing for an ACC Championship no where in sight...Wake is no longer relevant on the college BB stage
We're about to finish our 6th year without a postseason berth. Most of us believe that will go to 7 and likely 8. The only way to climb out of the ditch in today's landscape is for us to sign a couple MCD AA's or a couple top 15 back to back recruiting classes.
People talk about how great DM is recruiting but we're so accustomed to crap we think top 25 classes are good. Dino, Skip and Odom were all much better recruiters in year 2.
Like all of us I really want to be back in the Joel and experience the magic of Chill, TD, J Howard and CP3.
What I hang on Wellman is a total mismanagement of the program, not understanding what keeping Buzz beyond 2 years would do to us and lastly having no sound strategy on how to build and maintain a program. What he has done is fleeced the pockets of donors and built facilities with so far no return on investment.