OriginalAdmiral
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Too soon? Definitely need Wellman out ASAP.
Get back to me in year 4 or 5.
I agree with this. There has to be some progress shown in year 3 to earn a 4th year.end of year 4 for me, unless we go 1-11 or 2-10 next year.
I nominate for post of the year.It all comes down to recruiting. All the great coaching in the world won't help enough unless and until we can recruit well and consistently. Wake could do it (I'm watching Duke VT right now and Duke seems to be a real football team), but I don't know if Wake will do it. We may elect to continue to bleat on about academic standards and other canards, while schools higher than us in the academic rankings do what it takes to be good.
Some of this is on Clawson, but a lot of it is on Wake Forest. It takes a commitment to be good, and it costs money. There is a return on that investment, but if we've got a record number of parents lining up to toss $60K a year at us, the people that matter may not perceive the need to actually make the commitment.
It all comes down to recruiting. All the great coaching in the world won't help enough unless and until we can recruit well and consistently. Wake could do it (I'm watching Duke VT right now and Duke seems to be a real football team), but I don't know if Wake will do it. We may elect to continue to bleat on about academic standards and other canards, while schools higher than us in the academic rankings do what it takes to be good.
Some of this is on Clawson, but a lot of it is on Wake Forest. It takes a commitment to be good, and it costs money. There is a return on that investment, but if we've got a record number of parents lining up to toss $60K a year at us, the people that matter may not perceive the need to actually make the commitment.
Welp, there's the youth card. Now if someone will run the the end of the long tail and posit some outliers, all will be right in Deacon land.
It's the truth, you may not want to hear it, but it's the truth. A Wake team having to play this many young players is going to struggle.