Of course there are. What a weird response.
I'm glad you have at least outed yourself. What a complete loser.
Of course there are. What a weird response.
I'm glad you have at least outed yourself. What a complete loser.
As to the bolded, basketball outweighs them all combined. Football: a decent amount of people care. Soccer: a few people care, and really only as a glimmer of hope/pride because basketball sucks. Tennis: nobody cares. Facilities: nobody cares if they don't lead to basketball wins. Fundraising: nobody cares if it doesn't lead to basketball wins.
Every single one of us would trade football, soccer, tennis, field hockey, badminton, diving, parcheesi, facilities, and fundraising combined to have a top-10 basketball program. None of that other shit matters, and the assclown is too stupid to recognize it.
Nope, not at all correct. You don’t compete for national championships with coaches that toe the company line. We have some badass coaches in several sports that have done a ton of winning, we just, unfortunately, don’t currently have that in basketball.
And the academic part? Your take on that is just as bad. I am currently working with an undergrad on a project, and this kid is so smart and motivated that it’s incredibly impressive. I’ve worked with other similar students at Wake over the past few years as well - the students are just as sharp as ever, if not more so.
I wouldn’t trade football success for a top-10 b-ball program. Most of my friend group of fellow Wake alums wouldn’t either.
I wouldn’t trade football success for a top-10 b-ball program. Most of my friend group of fellow Wake alums wouldn’t either.
7-6 and 3-5 in conference is overwhelming success thatyou just can't walk away from.
Yeah, can't give up that Birmingham Bowl trip for a shot at a national championship in basketball !
There is a big difference between us knowing the entire story of why Dino was fired and you stating that Bzz was the only candidate Wellman considered. You seem incapable of appreciating this point though.
With the campus wake has, the resurgence of Winston as a cool, eclectic small city, the facilities we have, and the conference we're in, there's no excuse to not have both except for gross incompetence by the AD.
Pretty obvious there are no facts. Just more conspiracy theories to feed the gullible. Need a full investigation anyway.
I wouldn’t trade football success for a top-10 b-ball program. Most of my friend group of fellow Wake alums wouldn’t either.
Neither would I. Overall, college football is a much better product than college basketball. Football is great from September to January, where basketball is only interesting for a couple of weeks during March.
To the contrary, we are never going to win, or really come close to winning, a national championship in football.
I still think the timing of Dino's firing had to do with Wellman thinking he had a much better replacement ready if only Wake had an opening. Wellman created the open coaching position, and then whomever bailed on him for reasons unknown. Thus Dino was fired a year before the Wake team slid to the level seen at Dino's previous head coaching jobs. Scramble mode led to Jeff [name redacted].
I offer no proof, but the timeline seems to indicate he was damn near the top. Dino was fired in what was described at the time as a "hastily drawn news conference" on April 7th and [name redacted] was leaked as the front runner in the middle of the night on the 9th/10th, and officially announced on the 14th after he made his way to Winston. If anything, it sounds possible that Wellman could have reached out to [name redacted], found he was interested and then made the decision to fire Gaudio.
I'm sure others could have been contacted in that time, possibly by concerned folks in the AD or boosters, or just as a matter of due diligence. But Wellman was the only person with [name redacted] on his list...if [name redacted] wasn't at the top or damn near it, it makes zero sense that he was finalizing negotiations two days after Gaudio was fired.
The timeline suggests that [Redacted] was the guy Wellman had lined up. Hard to believe that we fired Dino, went back and forth in a panic with our "in the bag" candidate before realizing it wasn't happening, then looked at all of the other much better possibilities before starting to finalize [Redacted]'s contract in just a matter of a couple days.
No one who has made a claim to be in the know on what went down has stepped up to explain how we narrowed down our choices to [Redacted] so immediately.