From: Nathan O. Hatch [mailto:nhatch@wfu.edu]
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 8:54 AM
To: rick@mylifecard.com
Subject: Re: A disgrace
This is a 100% canned pre-prepared repsonse:
Dear Mr. Karlsruher,
Thank you for your message. None of us are happy with where our basketball program is right now. This was a painful season for everyone. That said, I do have confidence in the direction we are going, realizing that this is not an overnight, or one season, turn-around process. I am heartened by the knowledge that we have been successful in recruiting six new players, all of them with great promise as student-athletes who can make all of us proud again. I look forward to the day, sooner rather than later, when we can return to a program that is competitive and done the right way, which has always been the Wake Forest athletics hallmark. My thanks again for your on-going support. Your concerns are well-noted.
Sincerely,
Nathan Hatch
Dear Dr. Hatch,
Thank you for your quick response.
My position on Coach [Redacted] is publicly known in the Wake Forest community. Until this week it directly mirrored the sentiment your note describes. I expected us to have a painful season this year and a promising one in 2012-13. Having been around basketball for over four decades, I understand the rebuilding process. However the events of this week shows we aren’t going in the right direction.
Tony Chennault and Carson Desroisers are exactly the kind of student-athletes that should have led our program back to prominence. They are fine young men who worked hard in the classroom and on the court. Their departures illustrate we are dramatically on the wrong track.
It will be discernibly more difficult to recruit over the next two to five years.
Within the greater basketball community, inaction will be seen as capitulation. (there is a part in here that cannot be published in the public-I'm not losing contacts over this)
Our stature will get much worse with the media. We will become irrelevant. There is little worse than that.
Economically this will be a disaster that will burden the university for years to come.
I’m sorry to have to be saying this. As recently as last week, I thought we were making progress. That doesn’t exist any longer.
With sadness,
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 8:54 AM
To: rick@mylifecard.com
Subject: Re: A disgrace
This is a 100% canned pre-prepared repsonse:
Dear Mr. Karlsruher,
Thank you for your message. None of us are happy with where our basketball program is right now. This was a painful season for everyone. That said, I do have confidence in the direction we are going, realizing that this is not an overnight, or one season, turn-around process. I am heartened by the knowledge that we have been successful in recruiting six new players, all of them with great promise as student-athletes who can make all of us proud again. I look forward to the day, sooner rather than later, when we can return to a program that is competitive and done the right way, which has always been the Wake Forest athletics hallmark. My thanks again for your on-going support. Your concerns are well-noted.
Sincerely,
Nathan Hatch
Dear Dr. Hatch,
Thank you for your quick response.
My position on Coach [Redacted] is publicly known in the Wake Forest community. Until this week it directly mirrored the sentiment your note describes. I expected us to have a painful season this year and a promising one in 2012-13. Having been around basketball for over four decades, I understand the rebuilding process. However the events of this week shows we aren’t going in the right direction.
Tony Chennault and Carson Desroisers are exactly the kind of student-athletes that should have led our program back to prominence. They are fine young men who worked hard in the classroom and on the court. Their departures illustrate we are dramatically on the wrong track.
It will be discernibly more difficult to recruit over the next two to five years.
Within the greater basketball community, inaction will be seen as capitulation. (there is a part in here that cannot be published in the public-I'm not losing contacts over this)
Our stature will get much worse with the media. We will become irrelevant. There is little worse than that.
Economically this will be a disaster that will burden the university for years to come.
I’m sorry to have to be saying this. As recently as last week, I thought we were making progress. That doesn’t exist any longer.
With sadness,
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