• Welcome to OGBoards 10.0, keep in mind that we will be making LOTS of changes to smooth out the experience here and make it as close as possible functionally to the old software, but feel free to drop suggestions or requests in the Tech Support subforum!

Dino to Louisville

With what they are paying, do you really think he wouldn't look? Also schools reach out for people they want. It didn't happen.
 
If it was such a mistake, he would have gotten another P6 job during the past eight years. He didn't get a sniff of one. His "return" is as a third assistant not even an associate HC.

It was correct to fire him, but then Wellman fucked up big time afterwards.
How do you know he's third assistant? Where are you seeing that?
 
Mack brought his other guys with him and kept a couple of L'ville people (video guy and player development). If Dino was brought in as Associate HC, he would have been announced as such and wasn't.

Dino has been proven to be a good P6 assistant coach. That's a tough gig. But he isn't a good HC.
 
Oh, OK, so you just lied and made it up. Cool.
 
He was the third guy hired and not introduced as anything else. That's not a lie....although you should know about lies as you do it so easily and often.

You were doing so well at trying to be civil, but I guess it was inevitable that your revert to being a dick at some time.
 
My point is maybe he did not want it out there. Maybe this is the first coaching job he was interested in. Maybe not. Maybe he was actively looking and being turned down. That narrative only serves to "prove" firing him was the right decision and I'm betting ronnie does not mind that rumor.

I just find it hard to believe that he is so good at suppressing internet rumor and speculation that not one peep about him associated with any coaching search ever made it onto the interwebs. Pretty much every guy who has coached but isn't firmly retired or coaching somewhere is at least part of speculation, wishful thinking and/or wild rumor connecting him to some open coaching vacancy.
 
I find it weird that people are so invested the idea that Dino was a desirable head coaching prospect.
 
I just find it hard to believe that he is so good at suppressing internet rumor and speculation that not one peep about him associated with any coaching search ever made it onto the interwebs. Pretty much every guy who has coached but isn't firmly retired or coaching somewhere is at least part of speculation, wishful thinking and/or wild rumor connecting him to some open coaching vacancy.

He was the anti-Bobby Lutz and Ben Howland. Dino must have been the stealth candidate.

Or maybe Dino was represented by Michael Cohen and got NDAs from every school that either he was interested in or was interested in him.
 
I find it weird that people are so invested the idea that Dino was a desirable head coaching prospect.
If dino could be proved a desirable head coaching prospect it would ostensibly prove than Wellman had erred in firing him as he did.

People just can't get straight who they hate and who they're defending.
 
it was dumb to fire a coach coming off a 2nd round NCAA tournament appearance.
 
How do you know he's third assistant? Where are you seeing that?

Ask ELC he has had persoanl experience with almost all the STDs known to man and some that are still under investigation.


I'd take input from the guy on his third penis and fourth set of nuts.
 
I just find it hard to believe that he is so good at suppressing internet rumor and speculation that not one peep about him associated with any coaching search ever made it onto the interwebs. Pretty much every guy who has coached but isn't firmly retired or coaching somewhere is at least part of speculation, wishful thinking and/or wild rumor connecting him to some open coaching vacancy.

i am saying we have no idea if he even wanted to coach again. maybe he was never rumored because he did not want to coach. now the right situation (friends, not the head coach - whatever his reasons) and he decides to get back into the basketball coaching grind.

I find it weird that people are so invested the idea that Dino was a desirable head coaching prospect.

more like invested in defending a guy that got a bum deal. add to that people still make shit up about him never being rumored for a job. he clearly stepped away from coaching for reasons of his own and assuming he has been trying to get back into it with no actual information is shitty to do.

what i don't understand is the people that take every opportunity to tell us how terrible dino was and how right wellman was for firing him.

he was not likely to help wake make the jump. we all know his flaws but his actual record speaks for itself. good enough regular season. not a good enough bench coach to win much in the post season.

If dino could be proved a desirable head coaching prospect it would ostensibly prove than Wellman had erred in firing him as he did.

People just can't get straight who they hate and who they're defending.

wellman did err in firing him "like he did." extension. no one lined up. lied about the reasons (hired a guy with an similar crappy post season track record). pretty sure its nearly unanimous that wellman should have given him the next year after actually winning an ncaa tourney game. that year would have shown us what he could do with a team that did not have much talent. we know what [Redacted] did with it. we don't know what dino would have done. 5 games? 15?
 
Dino was on the Wake payroll for years. He couldn't take another head coaching job without forfeiting his severance. Dude was getting paid by Wake and ESPN at the same time. Pretty cushy gig and I wouldn't blame anyone for laying low for a bit.
 
Never mind that Dino never sought the head coaching job he ended up with. He was "forced" into it under some of the most unimaginable circumstances. And then, after doing a decent job holding the program together, he was fucked over and drug through the mud by Wellman and the school where he had seen his mentor die. And then he found a nice, much less stressful job at ESPN while Wake continued to pay him and embarrass itself with [Redacted].

But, yeah, RJ must be right...surely Dino was putting his name out there for every opportunity and no one was biting. Who wouldn't want to jump straight back into coaching after that?
 
Last edited:
Never mind that Dino never sought the head coaching job he ended up with. He was "forced" into it under some of the most unimaginable circumstances. And then, after doing a decent job, he was fucked over and drug through the mud by Wellman and the school he had watched his mentor die at. But, yeah, RJ must be right...

While being paid more than he has ever made at other point in his career. Also, think Dino would've landed the sweet ESPN gig for the past 5+ years if not for the ACC head coaching job on his resume?

The idea that WF "screwed" Dino in some way is simply wrong. He never would've had a shot at the head WF job (or at any other Power V school) at the time WF gave him the head job; and he parlayed that job into other opportunities (good for him). WF set Dino up. As a whole, Dino served WF well, and vice versa. That said, Dino was never the long term answer for WF (that said, Dino was a better answer that the incompetent doofus that followed him).
 
Dino- 61-31, 27-21. Fired after 3 seasons.

[Redacted]-51-76, 17-51. Resigned after 4.

Danny-54-72, 20-52. Contract extension.

Nah, Dino didn't get screwed by Wake at all.
 
With what they are paying, do you really think he wouldn't look? Also schools reach out for people they want. It didn't happen.

With what they are paying, do you really think he wouldn't look?

Yes, possibly. Especially given the death of his best friend, and getting fired with the AD dragging his name through the mud. I could see why he would chose to put personal happiness over $$$$$$ and don't think it is really a stretch to think it is plausible. The only reasons he got back into coaching is due to an ideal situation with a good friend.

It didn't happen, in regards to getting calls from schools.

You have no fucking clue whether that is true or not. ZERO. So stop fucking spouting it off as truth you cunt.
 
While being paid more than he has ever made at other point in his career. Also, think Dino would've landed the sweet ESPN gig for the past 5+ years if not for the ACC head coaching job on his resume?

The idea that WF "screwed" Dino in some way is simply wrong. He never would've had a shot at the head WF job (or at any other Power V school) at the time WF gave him the head job; and he parlayed that job into other opportunities (good for him). WF set Dino up. As a whole, Dino served WF well, and vice versa. That said, Dino was never the long term answer for WF (that said, Dino was a better answer that the incompetent doofus that followed him).

You don't think getting your name trashed by an AD after you resurrected their flagship program, and helped the community deal with the death of the former coach and also his best friend, is not getting screwed???? OOOOOOOK.
 
The idea that WF "screwed" Dino in some way is simply wrong.

So, your argument is that we didn't screw Dino because we paid him really well while publicly questioning his "culture" at every opportunity and quietly spreading potentially marriage ending rumors about his sex life in order to provide cover for the shitty hire that came after his firing? We tried to ruin the man's reputation.
 
Dino- 61-31, 27-21. Fired after 3 seasons.

[name redacted]-51-76, 17-51. Resigned after 4.

Danny-54-72, 20-52. Contract extension.

Nah, Dino didn't get screwed by Wake at all.


Dino's head coaching record before getting the WF job:

Army:

4 years 36-72 (.333 losing percentage). Fired.

Loyola of MD (Skip took this team to the NCAA tourney before Dino):

3 years 32-52 (.381 losing percentage) with descending records each year; Dino's third year Loyola went 7-21 (4-14) . Fired.

That is Dino's 7 year record as head coach before getting the WF job; two opportunities; terminated by both former employers for poor performance. Awful.

You think, those records at those schools merited the head job in an ACC program? Yes, in three years at WF with teams with multiple NBA players (all recruited when Skip was head coach), Dino had a 61-31 record. Those NBA players were leaving after Dino's third year, and Dino had replaced them with JT Terrell, Tony Chennault and Carson Derosiers. WF was headed in the wrong direction; just as the other two programs that Dino had coached were headed in the wrong direction after 3 years. Further, each of Dino's WF teams collapsed at the end of each of his three seasons of coach.

Dino has a solid record as an assistant and seems like a good guy, but never would have made the list at WF if not for Skip's untimely passing, and there is a reason, no school has offered Dino a head job over the last 8 years. Our fanbase has gotten so warped by 8 years of bad basketball, that some here really believe that Dino Gaudio is a preferred (or even passable) candidate for the head job at WF. He is not that caliber of a coach; the fact that he did better than subsequent bad hires, does not mean that he was anything other than a stop gap choice to deal with Skip unexpected death.

There is a difference from accepting that Dino was a better alternative than [] or DM, and stating that WF "screwed" Dino by recognizing the obvious: that he was not a long term answer as a coach on the ACC level.
 
Last edited:
Back
Top