Some posters appear comfortable with Wellman making the next hire; my apologies for mistaking you as one of them.
No one is ignoring what Wellman has done re: facilities, football, and non-revenue sports. We are just putting those accomplishments into proper context.
Facilities: Wellman has merely kept up with the Joneses, and belatedly so. However, that in and of itself is an accomplishment at Wake given some of the institutional challenges so I’ll give him a B+ in that regard.
Soccer: Hard to know how much credit Wellman deserves here. He did what 99% of AD’s would do in 1994 and promoted Vidovich who then went on to build the program to what it is now. He nailed the Muus hire, but that feels like low hanging fruit. It’s also soccer. He gets an A but this was a pretty easy course.
Olympic Sports: I don’t care enough to look it up but my guess is that over his tenure we’ve been about middle of the pack in the ACC in this regard, especially if you exclude soccer. This one is pass/fail and he gets a pass.
Football: If you are going to claim that in the current NCAA environment football is most important, then our program should be judged against that environment, not our own lackluster history. In that regard, it’s hard to give Wellman higher than a C+. Clawson’s progress stalled a little last year and at any P5 school even semi-serious about football his seat would be getting lukewarm.
Basketball: F-
If he had As on everything else then maybe we could talk about whether that balances out his utter failure with the basketball program, but he doesn’t. He should have been fired the day after the Manning hire at the very latest.
