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I mean it’s obvious some on here have personal vendettas coloring their views as well. Dumb time to reiterate you want him fired after an overall successful season. But anything to maintain the ongoing narrative
 
Wakeforest22890 said:
I mean it’s obvious some on here have personal vendettas coloring their views as well. Dumb time to reiterate you want him fired after an overall successful season. But anything to maintain the ongoing narrative
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Personal vendettas? Go on, please explain.

It's been obvious Haas wasn't the answer for a long time now. Much like a Dave Odom...he has built excellent teams but never gotten us over the proverbial hump. We can either be ok with that, or aspire to better. If Haas wasn't a Haas, I think we would have made a change a while ago.
 
What do you all believe he should be doing differently? A lot of these individuals have their own swing coaches and Haas is consistently landing top recruits. Major issue I can see is that the top players he gets aren’t always panning out at the pro level but the guys he’s landing mostly have offers from other huge schools.

As far as personal vendettas I just imagine he must’ve pissed in some Cheerios to irritate the same people year in and year out.
 
We should be competing at this level regularly. If he does that from now on, he will be fine. Not every year of course, but regularly.
 
Except for two individual qualifiers for the NCAA Track and Field Championships, I believe the book is now closed on the 2018-9 WF Athletic Season.

The highlights:

- Wellman retiring
- Third straight bowl win
- Sweeping Duke and State in Football
- #1 ranking in Men's Soccer; ACC Regular season soccer title
- Final 4 in Field Hockey
- ACC Titles in Men's Tennis and Women's Golf
- NCAA Runner-up in those same two sports
- NCAA Appearances in Women's Soccer (won two games) and Women's Tennis (won a match and then lost to #1 seed UGA)
- Men's golf ascends to #3 ranking, makes the match-play portion of the NCAA Championship
- Wellman retiring...

Lowlights:

- Pretty much everything associated with Men's Basketball, including having an assistant coach literally punch a drunk guy to death
- To a lesser degree, same for women's basketball sans violence
- Volleyball coach implicated in the "rich people's backdoor to admissions" scandal
- Baseball team begins the season ranked and ends the season outside the field of 64
- Succession of new athletic director did not lead to change in the leadership of the men's hoop program
 
I don't think Haas should be fired after this season

firing a coach who led his team to the #3 ranking and a solid showing at NCAA's while keeping Manning would be...strange, at best

I do question his handling of the roster, particularly Bae and Gillam - and this is not second-guessing, I asked the same question yesterday during the 4th round
 
Wakeforest22890 said:
What do you all believe he should be doing differently? A lot of these individuals have their own swing coaches and Haas is consistently landing top recruits. Major issue I can see is that the top players he gets aren’t always panning out at the pro level but the guys he’s landing mostly have offers from other huge schools.

As far as personal vendettas I just imagine he must’ve pissed in some Cheerios to irritate the same people year in and year out.
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everyone agrees that the wear long pants because it makes you think of yourself as a tour player while you think of the guy you're playing in shorts as other than a tour player does not work ... these guys aren't that dumb ... they see plenty of instagram and facebook of their heroes Ricky and Justin and Jordan playing barefoot without shirts for fun when they are not in a tour event so their first impression of those guys is not wearing the long pants being miserable while they are at work ... either Haas changes that stupid rule or Currie overrules him on that ... and no they don't have to get permission from Haas family guys who made it to the tour Jay and Bill and Uncle Bob ... crazy ....
 
I don't think Haas should be fired this season. Where is the logic in firing a coach that takes his team to #3 in the nation and keeping a coach that can't break out of the bottom 3 in the ACC?

I do think that Currie should diplomatically communicate that there needs to be improvement in the mental toughness of the players perhaps. Golf is, I believe, the toughest sport to master consistently. And that is particularly true in highly pressurized situations like the competition for the national championship. The disappointment comes when proven talent fails repeatedly in such competition.
 
Why are people acting like there is any relationship whatsoever between decisions on the men’s golf coach and men’s basketball coach?
 
Looks like we have alot of quality depth on the golf roster right now with Gilliam Aoshima and Steyn.
 
Why do people act like there is any relationship whatsoever on our pant-length and our performance?
 
WRS said:
Why are people acting like there is any relationship whatsoever between decisions on the men’s golf coach and men’s basketball coach?
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because those decisions are made by the same person, drawing from one pot of money with which to make (and prioritize) those decisions
 
WFUWaldo said:
Why do people act like there is any relationship whatsoever on our pant-length and our performance?
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There's probably none, but it's an absolutely stupid policy. There's a reason almost every pro wears shorts during practice rounds, now that it's allowed.
 
deaconbd said:
folks questioned me when I said that the men might feel the pressure to meet the standard set by the ladies but today you see that effect ...
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Yeah, that’s why you called a Wake blowout in this match earlier. O
 
mebanedeac said:
I don't think Haas should be fired this season. Where is the logic in firing a coach that takes his team to #3 in the nation and keeping a coach that can't break out of the bottom 3 in the ACC?

I do think that Currie should diplomatically communicate that there needs to be improvement in the mental toughness of the players perhaps. Golf is, I believe, the toughest sport to master consistently. And that is particularly true in highly pressurized situations like the competition for the national championship. The disappointment comes when proven talent fails repeatedly in such competition.
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This isn't serious, right?
 
While recently playing a round with one of our men's golfers (one of our 5 who participated in the NCAA tourney) I specifically asked him about the pants vs shorts issue and he didn't really seem to care one way or another.
 
thatguy2016 said:
because those decisions are made by the same person, drawing from one pot of money with which to make (and prioritize) those decisions
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I don't know for certain, but I bet that is a false statement, especially the one pot of money part. The people that influence and help fund/pay a basketball decision are not the same that would influence a golf decision. The Tour players/ex-players are going to be very influential in Haas remaining or not remaining as the coach. Same with a certain big donor on the tennis side of things.
 
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