Manning wasn't a pressure hire. He was about the best we could get from what Wellman was willing to take.
Pickings were also slim when we hired [name redacted]. Good coaches didn't want to come here after we fired Dino.
A lot of this.
Wellman struck out with other options and settled for Manning -- which was another mistake in a litany of Wellman mistakes.
-Firing Dino before the 2010/11 season was idiotic.
-Hiring He Who Shall Not Be Named was shambolic.
-Keeping He Who Shall Not Be Named after year 1 was catastrophic. (And don't tell me that we had to keep him otherwise no coach would have come here after firing 2 coaches in 2 years because nobody wanted to come here after that awful coach got 4 years. We could have easily plucked Manning from Kansas' bench in April 2011. And it isn't like his two years on Tulsa's bench really amounts the requisite experience to coach in the ACC anyway.)
-Keeping REDACTED after years 2 and 3 was program suicide, as it was clear REDACTED couldn't get it done on the recruiting trail and was setting the program back years at an exponential rate each season REDACTED came back.
-Hiring the inexperienced Manning for the obvious rebuilding job was simply a Hail Mary by Wellman. He is hoping that he catches lightning in a bottle, and so far, he hasn't even caught a single damn solitary lightning bug.
Manning may turn out to be a great coach in time, but he is a very inexperienced coach to hand over such a rebuilding job. Such a massive task ahead for the program and we are being led by a guy that is still new to coaching.
Wellman has fucked us right in the collective ass.