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I’d be shocked if we ever fired a coach mid-season just for losing. Programs fire at mid-season to satisfy the big alumni donors. A bunch of passionate alumni on a message board is not going to get an immediate in season firing.
 
Deac83 said:
I’d be shocked if we ever fired a coach mid-season just for losing. Programs fire at mid-season to satisfy the big alumni donors. A bunch of passionate alumni on a message board is not going to get an immediate in season firing.
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Like UNCW? They recently fired their coach for poor performance. Evansville and NC A&T have suspended their coaches for suspect behavior.
 
Rafi said:
Like UNCW? They recently fired their coach for poor performance. Evansville and NC A&T have suspended their coaches for suspect behavior.
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UNCW has higher standards than Wake, unfortunately.
 
Firing him now vs end of season is irrelevant to me.
 
If he wasn't fired before Xmas, it doesn't matter. There may be a theory that not having fired him makes looking a little less visible and easier to do.
 
Rafi said:
Like UNCW? They recently fired their coach for poor performance. Evansville and NC A&T have suspended their coaches for suspect behavior.
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I have no doubt we could fire him for cause immediately and not pay him a dime.

I’d bet the number of coaches fired in season is small vs all that are fired. What uncw does is irrelevant to Wake. Iirc we technically fired bob staak over a minor recruiting violation not because he stunk.
 
I think we went through this in-season firing discussion last year.

https://watchstadium.com/an-examina...ing-changes-in-college-basketball-01-02-2019/

"While midseason coaching changes aren’t the norm, they might be more common than many fans realize. Alford’s firing marks the 18th midseason coaching change since the 2000 season in the ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC, which have finished as the top six conferences in the country in some order in each of the last five seasons, according to kenpom.com.

That’s an average of almost one per season and Alford’s firing marks the fifth straight season in which at least one power conference school has experienced a coaching change midseason."

I would say one in-season firing in the P6 per year makes it a pretty infrequent event.

And as the UCLA firing of Alford last year highlighted, if you have a vocal and powerful alumni base I'm betting the AD would be responsive just to appease the big donors. It's pretty clear our vocal donors are in the clear minority.
 
I've spoken with Oakes quite a few times and he's always been a really good guy. Huge supporter of the tennis & golf teams. He always went out of his way to personally thank fans that came to WF events away from Winston-Salem. Sad to see him go. He was obviously a pro-WF Athletic Department guy that was not going to explicitly ever publicly disagree with WF AD policy but he at least actually acted like he cared when we spoke about basketball being awful.
 
ChaosDeac said:
He was obviously a pro-WF Athletic Department guy that was not going to explicitly ever publicly disagree with WF AD policy but he at least actually acted like he cared when we spoke about basketball being awful.
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We seem to have a whole AD of folks who refuse to call a spade a spade.
 
RacerDeac said:
We seem to have a whole AD of folks who refuse to call a spade a spade.
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True. And it'd be nice to have some people willing to push back on dumb decisions but at the same time, his job description really didn't have anything to do with basketball so I wouldn't really expect him to be really raising issues & asking questions about bball in his professional role.
 
ChaosDeac said:
True. And it'd be nice to have some people willing to push back on dumb decisions but at the same time, his job description really didn't have anything to do with basketball so I wouldn't really expect him to be really raising issues & asking questions about bball in his professional role.
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Yeah, there was a lot of that "not my job" around Wells Fargo over the last few years, and look where it got them. It's a culture of not questioning authority in general. Hopefully Currie changes that.
 
RacerDeac said:
Yeah, there was a lot of that "not my job" around Wells Fargo over the last few years, and look where it got them. It's a culture of not questioning authority in general. Hopefully Currie changes that.
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It's a big problem in our culture. See that story about Trump berating the generals who just whimpered about it. We like to talk a big game about rugged individualism, but people are hesitant to speak up.
 
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Now or at the end of the season matters not just make it happen. Make sure he is not around at the beginning of next year
 
Like i have said dont be shocked if Manning is back next year.
 
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