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Official Hoops Coaching Search Thread - Welcome Danny Manning!!!

ManhassetDeac said:
Manning's flight lands in an hour. Can I optimistically (or fatally) assume that RW is on the phone with his top choices one last time with a somewhat sweeter deal as a last ditch effort to bring a big name to Wake Forest?
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Muggsy still has a chance right? Either the tallest coach in the NCAA or the smallest! Accept no means or average white guys, bring me extreme outliers only!!
 
ArlingtonDeac said:
No one is hiring 2/5 of a coach. This is moronic.

All Manning's resume lacks -- from being bulletproof -- is a few more years of head coaching success. He's inexperienced. We get it. That's the risk. Everything else looks in his profile looks outstanding, including his limited work at Tulsa. That's the upside. Personally, I think the mix is good enough for an ACC job. It's not like this guy is Bzz.

To be unable to hope that those early resume-building, winning years will now be on Wake's sidelines -- and that we got a hot, rising young coach before the other vultures could snag him -- is ... I can't even find the right word. Sad?
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So college coaches are generally hired because of their experience as players? Link?
 
So basically, we are getting Wojo with more NBA experience and less actual coaching experience...

Why didn't we call just Frank Johnson, or Muggsy?
 
BobStackFan4Life said:
Wake must be a really unattractive job when the best we can get is a coach who has only only two years head coaching experience with only one semi-decent season in a bullshit conference. That's hard to accept but I guess it's where we are. Congrats LOWF, you have won the day. Congrats Ron, you've beaten the fanbase down to where they stupidly think this is an acdeptable hire.
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You're misusing LOWF. Which is a very LOWF thing to do, ironically.
 
BobStackFan4Life said:
Wake must be a really unattractive job when the best we can get is a coach who has only only two years head coaching experience with only one semi-decent season in a bullshit conference. That's hard to accept but I guess it's where we are. Congrats LOWF, you have won the day. Congrats Ron, you've beaten the fanbase down to where they stupidly think this is an acdeptable hire.
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So much wrong here.
 
Misplaced said:
So I'm standing on a trade show floor in Vancouver with a KU grad who thinks Manning is a great choice for Wake. He said that Manning was the best liked assistant under Self and had an obvious close relationship with his players. Do I think Manning is the answer, no, but even a dead corpse is an upgrade from the last 4 years
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FIFY
 
Fuck Your Couch said:
[name redacted] deserved every ounce of hate and disapproval we gave him and more. Wellman deserves every piece of criticism he receives and more.

Getting on board with Manning at the beginning is not LOWF. We really don't know how he'll do here, so we might as well root for the guy.
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This.
 
Why did you lie rj? You said Wake was an attractive job. We look like a fucking joke compared to VT, a school you mocked mercilessly.
 
RJKarl said:
He's also been coached by legends. some of that has likely rubbed off. He's been around the highest levels of basketball his entire life. He's been an assistant on a national championship team. he's recruited for a Top 5 school against the likes of Duke, UNC , KY. He's been to The Dance as a coach.

His overall resume is bigger than White's or the other Second tier coaches.

Your hypothetical was insane.
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Other people are entitled to an opinion as well. Stop going out of your way to disagree with people.
 
The talk all over ESPN radio today is about the "important and vexing decision that must be made."

Of course, it's in reference to whether the Texans will take Clowney, who had his pro day today. This other decision that we care so much about is naturally just a blip mention.
 
Say Hey Deac said:
We're all disappointed we didn't get a more experienced coach than Manning, but the reality appears to be that our job is not sufficiently attractive to those coaches as it stands today. The hope is that Manning builds us back up to the point where we can make an offer to a Shaka Smart or Archie Miller and they will accept.

Also, when that day comes, Wellman won't be the AD, so, yay!
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We really think we can't land an Archie Miller? Jesus christ
 
ArlingtonDeac said:
No one is hiring 2/5 of a coach. This is moronic.

All Manning's resume lacks -- from being bulletproof -- is a few more years of head coaching success. He's inexperienced. We get it. That's the risk. Everything else in his profile looks outstanding, including his limited work at Tulsa. That's the upside. Personally, I think the mix is good enough for an ACC job. It's not like this guy is Bzz.

To be unable to hope that those early-resume-building, winning years will now be on Wake's sidelines instead of Tulsa's -- and that we got a hot, rising young coach before the other vultures could snag him -- is ... I can't even find the right word. Sad?
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I agree with you, but wouldn't call Manning a "hot, rising *young* coach". He's nearly 48, which may be good or bad.
 
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BobStackFan4Life said:
Wake must be a really unattractive job when the best we can get is a coach who has only only two years head coaching experience with only one semi-decent season in a bullshit conference. That's hard to accept but I guess it's where we are. Congrats LOWF, you have won the day. Congrats Ron, you've beaten the fanbase down to where they stupidly think this is an acdeptable hire.
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Versus the coach you wanted who got run out of LA and alienated almost the AAU coaches whom he had come in contact with. You wanted who was paid $3.5M to go away.
 
I know I'm not the first to say this, but I have moved from the "give me Shaka or give me no one!" camp to the "please take our job, Danny Manning..." camp. I'm actually nervous that we won't get him, which is humbling to say the least.
 
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