John Toms was a big part of the problem.....along with Gene Hooks.
And to RChildress: Do you really think that Jerry Schellenburg was recruited "within the five years prior to Tacy's arrival"?
I don't know that the roster was completely bare when Carl left. We just got some bad breaks at that time, with Kenny Green leaving, Todd May (who might have been one of the best players in WF history) not working out & losing out on Tom Hammonds, etc.
This is an excerpted email I got back in early 2011 on TOB about the situation at that time from a guy who covered the program closely:
Bud,
I live in Winston-Salem and have known Coach Tacy for years. In fact, up until the last couple of years, we went turkey-hunting together once or twice every spring, and I plan to renew that habit this spring. Two of my good friends, including the best man in my wedding, graduated from Wake Forest in 1978, and my brother graduated from Wake Forest in the early 1980s. He was the Deacon mascot who sang the national anthem, dunked during basketball warmups and did the 81 pushups to help out the Clemson mascot one day.
LOL. You kind of left out some of the guy's credentials, didn't ya? Like the parts where he worked for the Winston-Salem Sentinal for 8 years, including three years as Sports Editor....and was the "beat reporter" for WF sports during that time? I'd say that a guy like that was pretty close to the situation.
They went to the same high school.
If we had a lot of guys like Jerry Schellenburg, Skip Brown, Delaney Rudd & Anthony Teachey....I would start going to the games again. Four year guys, all of 'em!
(Well, if they made a decision to start calling traveling & carrying the ball violations again, that is.)
Everything I heard about Hammonds was that Tacy didn't like recruiting and got outworked by Cremins.
that george mikan, what a player!
People shouldn't expect Danny to be instantly successful, but Wake's shitty years decades ago isn't the reason why.
Can't tell if serious, so apologies in advance if I missed the sarcasm.
This entire thread is just a whole lot of wordy diarrhea.
LOL. You kind of left out some of the guy's credentials, didn't ya? Like the parts where he worked for the Winston-Salem Sentinal for 8 years, including three years as Sports Editor....and was the "beat reporter" for WF sports during that time? I'd say that a guy like that was pretty close to the situation.
If we had a lot of guys like Jerry Schellenburg, Skip Brown, Delaney Rudd & Anthony Teachey....I would start going to the games again. Four year guys, all of 'em!
(Well, if they made a decision to start calling traveling & carrying the ball violations again, that is.)