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Manning Returning for 2019-2020 - b/c basketball decision, obvi

legit cackled when i read that Les asked Danny if winning 13 games would be a "step up"
 
Wtf us wrong with the players. They seem to be part of the problem too. Seem fine to lose 20 games per year.
Brandon chiming in on twitter
 
DeaconBrews said:
legit cackled when i read that Les asked Danny if winning 13 games would be a "step up"
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My favorite was the "who's responsible for being a young team every year?"

and the man's response was "what do you mean, who's responsible?"

Audibly chuckled at my desk at that one
 
Awesome recruiting pitch. Come to Wake Forest so that you can get national exposure while playing against ranked teams while guaranteeing the players that Wake will minimize play in conference tournaments and avoid post-season tournaments to reduce the risk of injury from playing in additional games. Also, the Wake Forest players can then have the opportunity to go on spring break!
 
Ron gives us the finger one last time.

4 ACC wins by a total of 14 points. So what is the "next step," 6 wins by a total of 20 points?
 
WakeForest Fan said:
Wtf us wrong with the players. They seem to be part of the problem too. Seem fine to lose 20 games per year.
Brandon chiming in on twitter
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Every group of players everywhere sticks up for their coach when they get fired, even if he really stinks. Not a situation exclusive to WFU.
 
Knowing your coach is coming back and trashing him publicly is probably a bad idea for your playing time hopes
 
Let's say the buyout is $18 million if Manning is let go this year as has been reported, does it go down $15 million next year? Usually its a guaranteed amount of money that is lowered yearly by the salary of the coach. So why would $15 million and three straight losing seasons be easier to swallow than $18 million and two 20 loss seasons in a row?

If the buyout really is the issue, I do not see how this is resolved by letting him coach another season?
 
With our luck, we will go something like 18-16 next year, win 7 or 8 ACC games, make the NIT and Danny will be brought back again and it's another 2 or 3 years before we get rid of him
 
PhDeac said:
I expect one or two to leave.
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I'm as pissed off as anybody on here, but I'm not going to get bent out of shape about current scholarship players' tweets. I hope Hoard goes pro and the whole damn team transfers. The latter won't happen, but I won't be around to watch it. I'm sick of wasting time watching Wake Forest basketball when nobody who collects a salary related to Wake Forest basketball cares half as much as we do.
 
Will it be possible to make an easier OOC schedule than they've already tried to use (spectacularly unsuccessfully of course) to prop him up? could we schedule unc Greensboro twice?
 
liveanddiedeac said:
With our luck, we will go something like 18-16 next year, win 7 or 8 ACC games, make the NIT and Danny will be brought back again and it's another 2 or 3 years before we get rid of him
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the cost of canning him today vs. next March can't logically be more than one year of salary, which in the grand scheme is not that much

therefore I'd say there is a pretty good chance he gets a 7th year

I think part of this decision announced today (a large part) is Hatch, not Wellman

by the way I agree that a player exodus seems very unlikely - last year we had a toxic chemistry; this year the guys like each other, they just aren't coached effectively or elite enough to overcome that
 
TimmyClutch said:
Let's say the buyout is $18 million if Manning is let go this year as has been reported, does it go down $15 million next year? Usually its a guaranteed amount of money that is lowered yearly by the salary of the coach. So why would $15 million and three straight losing seasons be easier to swallow than $18 million and two 20 loss seasons in a row?

If the buyout really is the issue, I do not see how this is resolved by letting him coach another season?
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Currie either raises the money to pay off the buyout of we’ll see Daniel’s face for several more years.
 
Sure. I think we all know that if Wake ever makes it back to relevance, none of these players will be on the roster whether they graduate or not. Recruiting and retention won’t matter until we get a new coach.
 
liveanddiedeac said:
With our luck, we will go something like 18-16 next year, win 7 or 8 ACC games, make the NIT and Danny will be brought back again and it's another 2 or 3 years before we get rid of him
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This is a likely outcome, IMHO, assuming everyone comes back. If we can add a good grad transfer big man, I'd even dare say we could be a bubble team.
 
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