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Manning Buyout Negotiations Have Begun

I think you would just keep the current staff, minus Manning, and elevate one of the assistants to interim head coach.
 
IMHO, everything relating to athletics went into survival mode when the ACC tournament was cancelled and the the NCAA tournament and all spring sports were shut down. My best guess is that until Covid-19 upended all plans, Danny was gone the week after the conclusion of the ACC Tournament.

Under the circumstances, Currie seems to be operating as if Manning isn't there. I'm guessing Currie is reluctant to pay two coaches to not coach if there is no 20-21 basketball season.

College basketball season covers both fall and spring semesters. Until there is clarity about in-person attendance of students for the 2020-2021 school year, I don't expect any announcement about Manning.

No in-person attendance at school = no athletics. No athletics means no coaching changes. No football in 2020 means a massive hit to the income side of Wake's athletic budget.

The basketball skills of the student athletes on the basketball team are probably about 21 on the list of top 10 things Currie is considering with respect to the basketball head coach change.

My bottom line is that Manning will coach a non-season and probably an abbreviated one. I don't expect him to coach the next complete season.
 
our buddy is on this meeting

 
IMR - Good analysis.

Clear that Currie wants Manning gone and might be hedging right now until he has more certainty whether there will be a 2020-21 season. If there's no season, that may drop about $3 million off the buyout tag, depending on the contract terms. If there is a season, Currie may be setting the stage for an interim HC (probably Walters), but Currie can't take that step until he knows whether WF will be open in August.

The key indicator is Chaundee's about-face and Sarr's continued wait. Lots of indications that Chaundee supported Manning and was set to play his senior year at WF, while Sarr did not. Then, suddenly Chaundee declares for the draft and enters the transfer portal while Sarr has yet to take that step. Seems weird, unless the thinking is that Manning is not coming back if WF has a 2020-21 season.
 
It has always puzzled me that Walters would come to Wake for one year. And almost everyone understood that apart from a miracle season, this would be Manning's last year. Walters is a sharp guy with kids in school and no natural connections to WS. So why would he risk moving his family for one year? I suppose we will never know, but I wonder if there was some private arrangement which virtually guaranteed that he would have a job beyond one year? BTW, I understand that his son is quite a player at Mt. Tabor.
 
Manning knows he’s not going anywhere and has Currie by the balls. Middle fingers up F U pay me.
 
mebanedeac said:
It has always puzzled me that Walters would come to Wake for one year. And almost everyone understood that apart from a miracle season, this would be Manning's last year. Walters is a sharp guy with kids in school and no natural connections to WS. So why would he risk moving his family for one year? I suppose we will never know, but I wonder if there was some private arrangement which virtually guaranteed that he would have a job beyond one year? BTW, I understand that his son is quite a player at Mt. Tabor.
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I’ve always wondered the same thing, but if you look at his recent resume, it looks somewhat unstable , since leaving USF in 2016 — I assume he was fired after a couple of bad years there but didn’t look that up. Appears he was unemployed after Musselman left Nevada for Arkansas. Maybe like in the corporate world , it’s not all bad to have an ACC /Power5 gig on your resume for a year.
 
Manning has been a dead man walking for 15 months, we just don't have the money to get rid of him. Currie knew he couldn't raise the money last year, this year thought he could pull it off and Covid 19 hit his big donors. If basketball season ended in February, Manning would have been gone, but it ended during a pandemic. We're stuck with Manning until he can find the money. I'm fully assuming that Manning is our coach in 2020-21 for whatever season actually happens because we don't have the cash available to fire him and hire someone else when we don't even know if there are going to be tickets sold for football or basketball next year. Wellman killed the program and now we're just left hoping someone can raise the money to pay Manning to go away.
 
Another possibility is that the lawyers are looking at any Force Majeure clauses in the contract.
 
Did Currie change the Zoom picture to one with Manning in it? What am I missing?
 
tigerswood said:
Did Currie change the Zoom picture to one with Manning in it? What am I missing?
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No. Yesterday he had an all staff meeting with 220+ people, and of the 75 people shown in screenshots, Manning wasn't one of them. People got their hopes up that Currie was playing 4D chess. Today he hosted another meeting for head coaches, and Manning is there, front and center, as he will be for at least two more years at this point.
 
RacerDeac said:
No. Yesterday he had an all staff meeting with 220+ people, and of the 75 people shown in screenshots, Manning wasn't one of them. People got their hopes up that Currie was playing 4D chess. Today he hosted another meeting for head coaches, and Manning is there, front and center, as he will be for at least two more years at this point.
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Yep im thinking 2 more years of Manning.
 
I get that Coronavirus has changed things, but people need to stop making the excuse that Currie all of a sudden couldn't raise the buyout money in February or March of this year once the season was over because we all of a sudden had a pandemic to deal with. Currie should have raised money and had a plan in place during the months leading up to that. If we hadn't hired a new coach to replace Manning yet, say in March/beginning of April, I would totally get it. However, the fact that we haven't dealt with Manning, despite the large buyout, is complete bullshit and a failure on Currie's part. That's why John is here. That's his top job at the moment. Things were really, really good in 2019 for the balance sheets of many big money donors. If Currie was capable and competent, he would have already raised the cash long before any of the events unfolded in 2020 so far...
 
RacerDeac said:
No. Yesterday he had an all staff meeting with 220+ people, and of the 75 people shown in screenshots, Manning wasn't one of them. People got their hopes up that Currie was playing 4D chess. Today he hosted another meeting for head coaches, and Manning is there, front and center, as he will be for at least two more years at this point.
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With a big ol' smile on his face.
 
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