Disagree. You can't cut bait after a year or two in college hoops the way you [apparently] can in the NFL and NBA. For a bunch of different reasons, including buyouts as well as the commitment you start to make to players and staff. It also makes it more difficult to hire next time. You get one shot every 4 years IMO and if you fuck it up, you essentially have to live with it unless they go Petrino or Bruce Pearl on you and you can fire them for cause.
It could easily be argued that our fall from the basketball upper level started by firing Dino a year too EARLY. In the coaching world, especially considering his ties to Prosser, that was seen as pretty cold, I believe. Yes, we weren't playing very good ball there at the end with what was it? three or four 10-year NBA players, but we were pulling in 20-win seasons. If the reason for Dino being fired was due to some off the court shenanigans or disagreement over types of recruits, Wellman would have been better served if he had been more transparent. The reason is - bottom line - we did NOT get our first or second and possibly third offer to replace Dino (hello Bzd), and then four years later, for different reasons but with the same lack of transparency, we did not get our first or second offer again (hello Manning).
I am somewhat sympathetic to Wellman. He made a great basketball hire in Prosser who could have been at Wake until about now, frankly and Wellman would have been perceived as historically one of the best ADs at a non-monolithic university of his era. But Prosser tragically died and a really awful time and Dino begat Bzd begat Manning. Don't get me wrong, Wellman has made mistakes tied to transparency and ego for the last 10+ years as it relates to hoops, but ...
I do think that if Wellman truly loved the university and was absolutely committed to getting a slam dunk hire, he'd retire today or announce his retirement and find his replacement immediately. I do not have any faith he can hire his first choice basketball coach at the end of this year