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Inside the slow death of Wake Forest basketball: A motorcycle, silence and stubborn h

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There's also something that can be said about Manning speaking about conviction around the same time that his former assistant was convicted for punching the dude that died.
 
Sort of the equivalent of the “they made adjustments, what are you supposed to do” mentality.

I wonder what drives Manning? He just seems to have no passion. Is it really just the money that gets him out of bed every morning? Doing everything it takes to win doesn’t seem to be his motivator. Does he just enjoy the process, the ‘stacking of one practice on top of another,’ regardless of the outcome just because he likes coaching?

At this point it’s too late to know and I guess I don’t really care. But it would be a good thing to know about our next coach from the beginning.

I honestly think Danny has no motivation other than this is his retirement cushion. I bet he doesn't take another coaching gig but rides off into the sunset and opens a beach bar called Kokomo with Ronnie
 
I mean, I like Dino, I truly do, but he did insinuate he was going to take legal action against OGBoards (still not even sure if that would have been possible) and me personally after emailing me concerning the rumors that started with the Ath Dept that were circulating on this site. He also left me a voicemail IIRC.

And I'm still not even sure how he got my email addy/cell phone number. Dino even brought up my soccer coaching history on the call and mentioned Sandusky (as in, what if a young boy claimed something salacious against me that I coached), this was in 2012. It was absolutely surreal. But I do remember telling him, "Well, I don't go into any private areas 1 on 1 with any of my players, we are always out in the open training or playing. I'm certain that is not something I need to worry about."

I get the guy was protecting his reputation while trying to get back into coaching, but I remember his tone (and his wife *sternly talking* in the background) as very aggressive. Almost like he was trying to lecture me, and I'm sitting there thinking, "why is this guy coming after me? I had fuck all to do with the rumor starting or spreading!" But this here OGBoards forum was just getting started, Dino was one of our WFU own, and none of us had any intention of harming his potential employment opportunities. Over a few conversations with Dino (2 or 3 tops total) we came to an understanding and dealt with the baseless rumors of co-ed nonsense or infidelity, etc etc etc. Baseless references were removed and Dino never contacted me, or any of the mod team, again.

I'm glad Dino now has a pretty sweet gig as an assistant at Louisville and I just saw on my google machine that they are #5 in the nation! Good for them! (I don't watch college basketball anymore, my joy for that sport is D-E-D, dead.) But I will never forget those emails and phone calls with the great Gaudino in 2012. That shit was WILD, y'all.

Point is, he might be a good dude. But I don't think he handled that situation very well.


The mod team at the time, most still "mods" now, can vouch for this craziness as we were talking about it in the mod forum back then.

That rumor did not start at the Athletic Department. No one there was going to spread that nonsense.

Look, you can have disagreements all day with your boss, but the minute you start giving him attitude, or rudely implying that he does not know what he's talking about, you cannot expect to continue to have a long career in your current position. Mr Wellman had overlooked quite a few things over the past three years, but some things were starting to get out of hand.

That's pretty much what happened here. It's not a secret by any means.
 
Seen this a lot in this thread, can someone tell me what they wanted Currie to say?

Hinting at firing Manning would be out of the question and inappropriate for him to say regardless of whether he plans to do it. What the hell else did you all want? If he had said something like:

"Our program has had a rough time recently and hasn't met our expectations, but we are looking forward to rebuilding towards our full potential"

You guys still would have shit on him for that, saying how words without actions are meaningless, and he's a "Wellman clone" who hasn't done anything. The only thing that's going to pacify any of us is firing Danny Manning, and that either will happen in March or won't happen in March, so let's chill out until then.

Currie has been active in social media and in other channels. So the fact that he chose not to comment for an extensive piece on our flagship program is counter to the image he is trying to promote of being engaged and visible.
 
Currie has been active in social media and in other channels. So the fact that he chose not to comment for an extensive piece on our flagship program is counter to the image he is trying to promote of being engaged and visible.

And he's not going to until March, at the earliest. Did you really expect anything to be said in mid-February?
 
It's going to be kind of funny when (if) Manning gets fired...

There will be a huge celebration and burst of activity around here.

The rest of the world won't even notice. It might make the list of "Top Headlines" on the side of ESPN.com... But way down the list and probably only for an hour or two.
 
Currie has been active in social media and in other channels. So the fact that he chose not to comment for an extensive piece on our flagship program is counter to the image he is trying to promote of being engaged and visible.

For those of us who have been in the corporate world at a reasonably high level,or at least close enough to see how things play out, his lack of comment speaks volumes. I've been there; CEO who used to ride my ass over time stopped visiting or even calling my operation. Unfortunately I didn't have a multi-million buyout and 3-6 months of presumed severance wouldn't pay the bills for long, so I bailed ahead of the inevitable.
 
Look, you can have disagreements all day with your boss, but the minute you start giving him attitude, or rudely implying that he does not know what he's talking about, you cannot expect to continue to have a long career in your current position.

And yet, the last 10 years have proved exactly that. Wellman had no fucking idea what he was talking about.
 
Currie has been active in social media and in other channels. So the fact that he chose not to comment for an extensive piece on our flagship program is counter to the image he is trying to promote of being engaged and visible.

That's not an answer on what you wanted him to say, just that you wanted him to say something. My argument was that anything that he could have said for that article you and/or other posters would have taken even more negatively than saying nothing at all.
 
That rumor did not start at the Athletic Department. No one there was going to spread that nonsense.

Look, you can have disagreements all day with your boss, but the minute you start giving him attitude, or rudely implying that he does not know what he's talking about, you cannot expect to continue to have a long career in your current position. Mr Wellman had overlooked quite a few things over the past three years, but some things were starting to get out of hand.

That's pretty much what happened here. It's not a secret by any means.

So Wellman murdered the basketball program because someone dissed him and his fragile ego could not handle it.

What a punk.
 
So Wellman murdered the basketball program because someone dissed him and his fragile ego could not handle it.

What a punk.

I don’t know about most people but I think it’s good if the basketball coach knows more about basketball than the AD.

I think it’s bad if the AD doesn’t realize that and hires a toady who will go along with him.
 
That rumor did not start at the Athletic Department. No one there was going to spread that nonsense.

Look, you can have disagreements all day with your boss, but the minute you start giving him attitude, or rudely implying that he does not know what he's talking about, you cannot expect to continue to have a long career in your current position. Mr Wellman had overlooked quite a few things over the past three years, but some things were starting to get out of hand.

That's pretty much what happened here. It's not a secret by any means.

GTFOH -- Mr Wellman? Do you shine his shoes as well? Did you run his errands post haste? How many sugars did he take with his coffee?

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Anyway, if you hire somebody to be a specialist in a certain area and they tell you that you are wrong and they are right in that certain area and you can't handle it... then that's on you being an insecure person. So by your telling, Ron Wellman was insecure about somebody knowing more about something in which they were employed to know more about. Genius!
 
Currie has been active in social media and in other channels. So the fact that he chose not to comment for an extensive piece on our flagship program is counter to the image he is trying to promote of being engaged and visible.

And it is exactly this reason that Mr. Currie's silence in response to the article is quite deafening. If Currie was going to bring DM back he would have defended/countered such a scathing indictment of our BB program. The fact there is nothing tells me all I need to know. Would be absolutely shocked if DM isn't fired within 72 hours of our last game.
 
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