Maybe it will or maybe it won’t but firing Manning at this point would tarnish the search for an upgrade given all the turnover we have had with recent HCs.
If you think the Wake Board of Trustees sits around seriously discussing our basketball futures you are delusional. And rightfully so as it is a minor part of the Wake Mission.
Now that’s a damning statistic.
Coming off the Belk Bowl and UNC game weekend, it dawned on me there were more basketball games. Like two a week. I thought, “Ugh. We’ve got to do this again.”
If you think the Wake Board of Trustees sits around seriously discussing our basketball futures you are delusional. And rightfully so as it is a minor part of the Wake Mission.
I'll tell ya what, mack: If Wake can't manage to make the Top 10 or 15 in University rankings like the other private P5 schools we consider our peers, I'd just as soon we focus more on sports "futures". It's really the only thing that keeps me in touch with alma mater and has real meaning in my life.
I can't wait to see the gyrations and back-tracking so many here will do if we are a Top 15-20 team next year and get a strong recruiting class.
I can hear it now:
"I was never anti-Danny."
"I knew he could learn."
"I knew it would take time.See it did."
and more...
Of course if we don't win the NC, they will say anyone could have won it.[/QUOTE
I am not anti Danny. I really thought we had turned the corner last year and while I knew this one would not be as good the disappointment started strong and continues to mount. We have the same problems game after game. He needs to fix it or find someone who can. At least enough to win games like yesterday. Is BC better than last year, of course they are. But watching that game it was obvious that we were the more talented team. We just did not have the sets and plays to execute and we didn’t execute what we had well enough. That is on the coach. I just wanted a nice competitive year and a good building block for next years arrivals. Alas not to be with the 1 - 4 start and losing two very winnable games in the last 3. Does not give anyone very much confidence.
If Wake was ranked in the top 15 in the US News rankings, that would have real meaning in your life?
That would tell me Wake had some claim on being a hardass academic school. #26-30, not so much.
Manning will mostly likely be fired in March/April of 2019 unless Jaylen is so good that he covers up these coaching flaws like JC did last season.
I'll give him this, Manning is an amazing recruiter. By historic standards he is pretty par for Wake (compared to Odom, Prosser, and Dino), but it's pretty amazing that he is pulling in these recruits given the on the court "success".
Wellman is not going to can a guy who is two years removed from an NCAA appearance.
Wellman fired Gaudio right after he made the NCAA tournament second round.
Then why did he? He would've had some support if he'd gone in another [better] direction.
To save a recruiting class.
Maybe it will or maybe it won’t but firing Manning at this point would tarnish the search for an upgrade given all the turnover we have had with recent HCs.