January 19, 2009 Wake was the #1 ranked team in the nation. 3 weeks from an official 10-year downfall.
Dear Ron,
Non-alum Wake fan here. It was a great time being a Wake fan for many years. I have spent hundreds of dollars on driving from Ohio to watch several games each year. I have also been to Xavier and First Four in Dayton. My son and I wear WF gear almost every single day. I have decals on the back of my truck and a WF flag in my front yard. Every time Wake loses, especially to Gardner-Webb, Houston Baptist, Stetson, Presbyterian, Liberty.....the list goes on, I get ragged on by friends that are now wondering why I would be a Wake fan.
There are several teams close to where I live that are much more exciting to watch. The energy at the UD Arena for every Dayton Flyer game is electric. Same thing for Xavier. Both schools put the atmosphere at LJVM to shame. At this point I could care less about Wake Forest basketball...not sure I care less than you do...but I do not care any more.
Ron, regardless of what you think your legacy is as AD at Wake Forest, you will only be remembered for bringing down one of the finest, proudest (remember "proud to be a Deacon") most energetic flagship programs in college basketball. You will be known as being an embarrassment for the basketball program and a once great fan-base that showed up in droves and went crazy when Kernkraft (or whatever it is called) and Jump Around was played during time outs. Who really wants to be associated with Wake Forest basketball any more? Sometimes I wish a couple thousand Deacon fans would ascend to your ivory tower and/or Reynolds Gym to meet with Danny after practice to ask you and him the questions that are being censored during the Danny Manning Show.
The only way I would consider remaining a Wake basketball fan at this point is if you terminated Danny Manning before the next game and you rode off into the retirement sunset with the millions of $$$ you have been paid. But I am pretty sure that you don't care about my thoughts or the thoughts of thousands of other Deacon fans. I would like to wish you the best but you have shoved your middle finger up the ass of every Deacon basketball fan for 10 years now.
Written with 100% authentic sincerity,
An almost former non-alum Wake Fan
Go Flyers, X, OSU, U of Cincinnati, Butler....any other basketball program but yours.