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2020 College Basketball Coaching Carousel

“Hasn’t produced an ACC winner” somehow feels way too generous to describe the depths of the shitty job he’s done here.
 
“Hasn’t produced an ACC winner” somehow feels way too generous to describe the depths of the shitty job he’s done here.
The loser PEAKED at .500 and 10th place in conference with one of the best players to play the game at Wake. He has less conference wins in 5 seasons than Gaudio in 3 and needs 4 this year in order to surpass Dino.
 
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Yup....a very promising career likely destroyed.

Not necessarily. He’s the son of a well regarded coach. He will be on someone’s bench soon enough. I’m more concerned about the DOBO. May be hard finding a coach willing to hire a woman who doesn’t play that shit.
 
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Not necessarily. He’s the son of a well regarded coach. He will be on someone’s bench soon enough. I’m more concerned about the DOBO.

As the rumors go, he's been flinging with her prior to Niagara...and she flinging with an Asst coach at Niagara....a sorta 3-some deal since last summer. A real mess with legal stuff all over to unravel.
 
pretty good racket coaches and agents have going where a guy like Manning would have to be paid handsomely to be fired

Schools can afford to pay coaches $millions not to coach but can’t afford to pay players to play.
 
pretty good racket coaches and agents have going where a guy like Manning would have to be paid handsomely to be fired

It's perfectly legal and just common sense for a highly-paid professional (like a D1 hoops coach) to engage an agent with good legal and negotiating skills to represent them in contract negotiations. And in that situation, the coach and their agent are entitled to assume that the negotiations will be fair to all sides, because on the other side of the bargaining table you have a competent athletic administration, backed up by legal counsel, who won't commit to the school to an unreasonable deal.

Can you guess which of these elements was missing when Wake hired Manning?
 
It's perfectly legal and just common sense for a highly-paid professional (like a D1 hoops coach) to engage an agent with good legal and negotiating skills to represent them in contract negotiations. And in that situation, the coach and their agent are entitled to assume that the negotiations will be fair to all sides, because on the other side of the bargaining table you have a competent athletic administration, backed up by legal counsel, who won't commit to the school to an unreasonable deal.

Can you guess which of these elements was missing when Wake hired Manning?

It wasn't the initial hire. It was the extension.
 
Fair enough. I'll give the benefit of the doubt and say the initial hire was "high risk, high reward."

After Bzdelick, it was, as you said, a high risk, but potentially high reward hire. However, to quote Charlie Brown, "great potential is man's greatest burden."
 
We thought any hire after [Redacted] was low risk. Who could be worse? Well Manning could.
 
After Bzdelick, it was, as you said, a high risk, but potentially high reward hire. However, to quote Charlie Brown, "great potential is man's greatest burden."

"Potential gets you fired" - Gene Mauch
 
The fightin’ Wes Millers have a good chance to take down Kansas tonight.

Might as well get the Wes to Wake hype machine going early this year.
 
We thought any hire after [Redacted] was low risk. Who could be worse? Well Manning could.

The odds of Wellman being able to hire a coach worse than Bzzz were about 5 percent and somehow against all odds, Wellman got it done.
 
The fightin’ Wes Millers have a good chance to take down Kansas tonight.

Might as well get the Wes to Wake hype machine going early this year.

On the Spartans +16
 
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