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Wellman Retiring; Currie New AD

Another bang up job by the sports marketing folks. Got the email about the 2PM press conference at 2:22.
 
DistrictDeacon said:
Another bang up job by the sports marketing folks. Got the email about the 2PM press conference at 2:22.
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2:19 for me. People will defend, though. We simply don't have the resources and manpower of the big state schools!
 
I don't think anyone had the balls to ask about the elephant in the room. At the end I saw the Danny was there...that was probably why. Awkward.
 
I do have this question for the boards:

Let's say Currie comes in and replaces Manning with a big name coach in the next few weeks. Smart, Oats, Matta, even Few. Then, 3 years from now the basketball team is bottom third of the ACC and not poised to enter the NCAAT, but every other sport is about where it is today. Is Currie a failure in this hypothetical scenario?

Alternatively let's say he goes hard for all of the names mentioned as great hires but they all go elsewhere or decline to leave their current gigs and has to settle for a less desirable basketball HC. What then?
 
So is the plan to start hating on Currie when he doesn't fire Manning.
 
Currie comes across as outgoing, personable and sharp, three things Wellman is not.
 
WhatUTalkinBout Willis said:
I do have this question for the boards:

Let's say Currie comes in and replaces Manning with a big name coach in the next few weeks. Smart, Oats, Matta, even Few. Then, 3 years from now the basketball team is bottom third of the ACC and not poised to enter the NCAAT, but every other sport is about where it is today. Is Currie a failure in this hypothetical scenario?

Alternatively let's say he goes hard for all of the names mentioned as great hires but they all go elsewhere or decline to leave their current gigs and has to settle for a less desirable basketball HC. What then?
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For your first question, so long as he picks someone with a solid track record and/or a promising future (according to a consensus of outsiders, not fluff WF propaganda), I won't hold it against him if that coach doesn't work out.

For the second, if all the preferable candidates don't come here, then you do what you can to find the best secondary candidate that you can. Potentially have to radically think outside the box for the hire at that point.
 
WhatUTalkinBout Willis said:
Maybe it's because I don't care whether Wake even has a basketball team or not, but I will think back on Ron's tenure at Wake in a very positive manner. Basketball aside, it's been hugely successful. That's plenty good for me.
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WhatUTalkinBout Willis said:
I do have this question for the boards:

Let's say Currie comes in and replaces Manning with a big name coach in the next few weeks. Smart, Oats, Matta, even Few. Then, 3 years from now the basketball team is bottom third of the ACC and not poised to enter the NCAAT, but every other sport is about where it is today. Is Currie a failure in this hypothetical scenario?

Alternatively let's say he goes hard for all of the names mentioned as great hires but they all go elsewhere or decline to leave their current gigs and has to settle for a less desirable basketball HC. What then?
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Why do you care?
 
So did Currie win the press conference?
 
RacerDeac said:
Oh joy, a Duke fan weighing in on who we should hire. I'll be sure to stop by and provide my insight should K ever get a stake through the heart.
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Yeah, I'm a Dukie -- but I'm from W-S area, and grew up watching the Big Four. As I've said before in this forum, the ACC needs another small, private school kicking Tarhole butt on a regular basis, like Wake did in the '90s. And BTW Wes has a hell of a lot more creds than K did coming into Duke in 1980.
 
PhDeac said:
So did Currie win the press conference?
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I didn't watch it all -- again, thanks for the 2:22 email with the link Wake -- but seems like they made it way more about Ron than Currie.

But from what Currie did say he was OK, didn't blow me away, a lot of corporate jargon, five pillars for what he envisions for a successful athletic department, etc.
 
tsywake said:
Ron stated the exit was finalized in November around the time of the NC State football game, and asked for the announcement to be in the spring so he wouldnt be a lame duck.
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I believe Currie stated in one of his articles that things really started happening a few weeks ago.
 
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