One of the things that some of the more recent fans probably don't realize is that Bresky literally built the Wake program up from the bottom of the ACC. We had decent success under Zinn, but a bunch of key guys were graduating in his last year and he didn't really have anyone lined up to replace them--probably a big reason why he left for Penn State.
The team Bresky inherited his first year easily could have gone 0 for the ACC--he only really had four players who even had a shot at winning an ACC singles match and we were eking out 4-3 wins against teams like Boston College that don't even give scholarships. But he got more out of those guys than I think even they could have imagined.
He turned Amogh Prabhakar, a guy who couldn't get into the lineup at all as a freshman or sophomore under Zinn, into a guy who won almost automatically at No. 3 singles as a junior and later went on to be ranked in the top 40 in the country. In his second year ,he took the same top four guys who had finished 3-8 in the ACC a year before, plus a couple of his freshman recruits at 5 and 6, all the way to the ACC Tournament Final. And he just kept building. Two years later, Wake made the Sweet 16; two years after that, the quarterfinals; and now, a national championship.
We're the national champions now because Tony was willing to work harder than almost any coach in the country--whether recruiting, practicing, selling the program to donors, etc.--but more importantly because he's an amazing coach--arguably the best in the country--who's able to get the best out of his players. We're lucky to have him
