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WF Fans Actions Will Scare Away Coaches

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Translation = VA Tech got who? Holy S. Better try to hurt Wake ' s chances of beating that. Only he forgot who is making the hire.
 
Any coach knows if he loses like [Redacted] lost then he is going to have an unhappy fanbase. Coached aren't idiots (most of them). When you only win 2 road games in 4 years your fanbase is going to be pissed.
 
If the new coach wins games, he should be fine.

Winning cures all. Buzz was a condescending LOSER.

ACCOffice said:
We sure as hell don't want a coach who is concerned over 150 posters on a message board. Do they actually believe that message boards are the heartbeat of a program?

Shaka's not coming because he's afraid someone will dump on his yard or make fun of his tie.
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DoubleDeacNC said:
There is no way a proven d1 coach believes he will get the same treatment as Bzzzz. That's an asinine comparison.
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And that was the point of my post. Shaka and Marshall are not paying a lot of attention to posts on a message board.
 
Ridiculous sentiment. Yeah, we're scaring away coaches just as dumping a bad one after two years would have scared away any good prospects, (right VT?)

Hopefully any coach worth his salary would be impressed that we have a fanbase that cares and believes we can and should be excelling.
 
Wrangor said:
Any coach knows if he loses like [Redacted] lost then he is going to have an unhappy fanbase. Coached aren't idiots (most of them). When you only win 2 road games in 4 years your fanbase is going to be pissed.
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Oh hey someone who has actually coached college basketball, thanks for weighing in and letting all these LOWFers know they are full of shit.

But seriously, can we delete this thread? A troll like Friedlander wants nothing more than to have people bitching about him
 
The fear we ought to have is that a great coach will not come because he wonders about an AD that would put up with this for 4 years and then act like he's unsure about the process even now. He's thinking, "Are these clowns even committed to winning?"
 
The ACC lost one Buzz on Thursday and replaced him with a new one a day later.

Virginia Tech’s hiring of Marquette coach Buzz Williams to a seven-year, $18 million contract is a major upgrade from the recently fired James Johnson, who compiled a 22-41 record (6-30 ACC) in his two seasons with the Hokies.

The energetic 41-year-old Williams, by contrast, was 139-65 with Marquette while taking the Eagles to the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament in 2013.

As exciting as the news of Williams’ hiring is for the folks at Tech and a conference in desperate need of an influx of coaching talent, it’s probably the last thing Wake Forest athletic director Ron Wellman wanted to see as he embarks on a coaching search of his own.

Wellman was already under pressure from an angry, impatient fan base to bring in a quality replacement for the wildly unpopular Jeff [Redacted], who “resigned” on Thursday after four divisive seasons.

Now, with a neighboring ACC rival having landed such a high-profile new coach, the ante has been upped. Along with, almost certainly, the price tag.

Although it’s still too early in the process to identify who might be available, it’s almost certain that Wichita State’s Greg Marshall and VCU’s Shaka Smart – the two names at the top of most Deacon fan’s wish list – won’t be.

It will also be interesting to see if vitrol aimed at [Redacted] by a segment of Wake’s fan base will scare away any prospective candidates, the way it did at N.C. State when a similarly unpopular Herb Sendek left nearly a decade ago.

The so-called #buzzout faction at Wake spent better part of the past two years taking out newspaper ads and highway billboards to voice their public displeasure in their team’s now-former coach. Thursday, when [Redacted]’s “resignation” was announced, the news was greeted by a “rolling of the Quad” – a celebration usually reserved for big Deacon football and basketball victories.

Wellman has given no timetable for hiring a new coach.

There....now no one is tempted to click on the article.
 
he is a stupid motherfucker. Yeah, it was State fan's vitriol towards Herb that kept them from getting Calipari and Rick Barnes (when Rick Barnes was worth something)

Also, sweet tags deacfreke2. You're such a better fan than all of us who actually care about winning
 
ACCOffice said:
The fear we ought to have is that a great coach will not come because he wonders about an AD that would put up with this for 4 years and then act like he's unsure about the process even now. He's thinking, "Are these clowns even committed to winning?"
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This is more accurate....although I believe Wellman is a lot savvier than we give him credit for. I am as pissed as him as anyone for the past 4 years, but he is a pretty schrewd professional. I still believe he has the ability to make a good hire, and can spin the last 4 years as proof that when he commits to a coach he sticks by their side even if they wet the bed.
 
Herb Sendek was 1,000 times more successful than [Redacted]. That comparison does not hold any water.
 
Two years ago the Brett Friedlanders in the media and on this board were saying: "Wake cannot possibly fire Bz after only two seasons! Gee, if Wake fires its coach after only two losing seasons, they will never be able to get a good coach ever again. Because everybody knows that no good coach will ever come to a place that fires a losing coach after only two seasons!!!!!!"

So Va Tech fires a losing coach after just two seasons and within a week has lined up a big-time, big-name, proven winner of a coach.
 
This dude just wants clicks. Delete. He has an axe to grind with Wake's fan base for some reason and it's clear he is not intelligent.
 
Wrangor said:
The ACC lost one Buzz on Thursday and replaced him with a new one a day later.

Virginia Tech’s hiring of Marquette coach Buzz Williams to a seven-year, $18 million contract is a major upgrade from the recently fired James Johnson, who compiled a 22-41 record (6-30 ACC) in his two seasons with the Hokies.

The energetic 41-year-old Williams, by contrast, was 139-65 with Marquette while taking the Eagles to the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament in 2013.

As exciting as the news of Williams’ hiring is for the folks at Tech and a conference in desperate need of an influx of coaching talent, it’s probably the last thing Wake Forest athletic director Ron Wellman wanted to see as he embarks on a coaching search of his own.

Wellman was already under pressure from an angry, impatient fan base to bring in a quality replacement for the wildly unpopular Jeff [Redacted], who “resigned” on Thursday after four divisive seasons.

Now, with a neighboring ACC rival having landed such a high-profile new coach, the ante has been upped. Along with, almost certainly, the price tag.

Although it’s still too early in the process to identify who might be available, it’s almost certain that Wichita State’s Greg Marshall and VCU’s Shaka Smart – the two names at the top of most Deacon fan’s wish list – won’t be.

It will also be interesting to see if vitrol aimed at [Redacted] by a segment of Wake’s fan base will scare away any prospective candidates, the way it did at N.C. State when a similarly unpopular Herb Sendek left nearly a decade ago.

The so-called #buzzout faction at Wake spent better part of the past two years taking out newspaper ads and highway billboards to voice their public displeasure in their team’s now-former coach. Thursday, when [Redacted]’s “resignation” was announced, the news was greeted by a “rolling of the Quad” – a celebration usually reserved for big Deacon football and basketball victories.

Wellman has given no timetable for hiring a new coach.

There....now no one is tempted to click on the article.
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@Ironwill - Please post this verbiage in the OP.
 
Yet more fallout from the arrogance of the AD. Treat your fan base like idiots and build a house of cards in the media to justify your mistakes and this is what you get. Crap like this on the eve of the biggest coaching search in the school's history is what you get.
 
FreeStateDeac said:
Two years ago the Brett Friedlanders in the media and on this board were saying: "Wake cannot possibly fire Bz after only two seasons! Gee, if Wake fires its coach after only two losing seasons, they will never be able to get a good coach ever again. Because everybody knows that no good coach will ever come to a place that fires a losing coach after only two seasons!!!!!!"

So Va Tech fires a losing coach after just two seasons and within a week has lined up a big-time, big-name, proven winner of a coach.
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He was right.

There was a huge difference. The coach we had fired before Buzz had close to a .667 winning percentage and had taken us to back-to-back NCAAT berths. Seth had not only not taken VT to The Dance, but he cried like a little girl about being left out.

They hired a guy with no experience. We hired a guy who had taken an NBA team to the playoffs.

There were HUGE differences in the situations.
 
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I have no interest in the original article. But Wake fans need to face the fact that money alone will not decide the issue for a man with a family. No man worthy of being a husband and father would knowingly bring his family into a context in which they may be subjected to ridicule and harassment. No wife wants to see her husband's face or name plastered on a billboard in a mocking way because he didn't win games: games! She does not want to face the possibility of being shunned in the community because her husband proves not to be good at winning games.

There will be mocking at this suggestion; but we are fooling ourselves if we think that a top flight coach will not consider how fan disapproval might impact his family in a particular context. Money will not compensate for a poor quality of life.
 
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