Bubble Boy
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I say this over and over and Dan nailed it. Dave Clawson had a vision and then created a strategy which he believed would pay off and stuck to it for a few lawn years. Wake football is in an amazing place right now and sustainable. Dannt Manning has no vision and no long term strategy and plan in which to execute. Each practice and game is more about who is currently on the team and lets see if they do what I tell them today.
If you dont know where you're going all roads lead there...Danny is on that road.
I don't know that Manning didn't have any sort of plan, and I would argue that he had things pointed in what appeared to be the right direction in season 3, especially given the hole he had to start from. A bubble team with a core of key returners due to come back plus the highest regarded recruit in many year coming in. When Manning was hired, I think most would have taken that as a good place to be at the end of season 3. Sure there were some warts when you got into the details - 3 seasons of poor defense, troubles pulling out wins at the end of close games, questionable sub patterns and line-ups, dumb plays with no accountability, etc. But at a macro level, things were looking pretty good for the future. And then it all went to hell. Who knows what would have happened if Collins and Dinos stuck around for season 4. But they didn't, and that was like pulling bottom pieces from a really tall Jenga tower. No need to wade into all the details, but obviously it's pretty much been downhill since. Maybe I am just thinking out loud here, but it is amazing how fast things deteriorated since the end of the Kansas St game. Or really since the end of that regular season. Now it looks like Manning is going into a complete rebuild, which is pretty much unacceptable for year 5.