Exhibit A: Tommy Elrod still lives in Winston-Salem...comfortably. I mean, damn.Good chance trolling, but if not, frankly amazing that anyone would believe that the Wake fan base is too intensely negative for a coach to handle.
Have a look around you. We're the most milquetoast fan base out there
Lots of other folks either don’t post on here or don’t feel like arguing with the echo chamber sentiment.
So did everybody.
To be fair...everyone in the Power 5 conferences have not. Wake's investments in facilities and resources is historic and transformational because we have (by far) the smallest budget of any Power 5 school, the fewest alumni and a local philanthropic/sponsorship base that is dramatically shrinking. Wake Football at its peak will have only a fraction of the revenue of our peer group...football revenues is why FSU can buyout their coach. On top of that...our endowment (even with the current Wake Will campaign) is less than 25% of the endowment of Duke and Vanderbilt. Substantial out-performance in athletic fundraising is really the only way Wake has any chance. Outside the complete failure with basketball leadership and performance these past 10 years, football and the vast majority of our Olympic sports are set up for continued success with better than P5 average resources and leadership.
Okay well I'm in my deserve some credit for fundraising even though I think most of the credit goes to the benefactors who donated millions of dollars.
However this fantasy that Dino was running some out-of-control program when nothing has come out, and apparently all of this was discovered sometime between two and a half years into the program when Wellman gave him a huge extension and six months later when he fired him. And that somehow that forced Wellman to hire a coach with the personality of a wet sack of cement.
Wellman and all the blue hairs had this idea that we could become some sort of Butler 4 year gym rat program. And he executed this Vision in about the worst way you that you possibly could.
And the only reason for the Manning extension is that his ego got the better of his judgment and he wanted to be right and leave the wake program in great shape even taking a reckless chance.
To be fair...everyone in the Power 5 conferences have not. Wake's investments in facilities and resources is historic and transformational because we have (by far) the smallest budget of any Power 5 school, the fewest alumni and a local philanthropic/sponsorship base that is dramatically shrinking. Wake Football at its peak will have only a fraction of the revenue of our peer group...football revenues is why FSU can buyout their coach. On top of that...our endowment (even with the current Wake Will campaign) is less than 25% of the endowment of Duke and Vanderbilt. Substantial out-performance in athletic fundraising is really the only way Wake has any chance. Outside the complete failure with basketball leadership and performance these past 10 years, football and the vast majority of our Olympic sports are set up for continued success with better than P5 average resources and leadership.
I walk my dog in Ron’s neighborhood, I do not know which house is his. I am systematically letting him shit in every yard in the hopes of that just one of these shits ends up in Wellmans yard. Thanks for your sacrifice residents of Camelot.
It's off of Marble Arch, correct? Or one of those roads around there.
Exhibit A: Tommy Elrod still lives in Winston-Salem...comfortably. I mean, damn.
The real question is what additional improvements to these already state of the art new facilities could be made with an additional $18 million.