Notice how buried the Manning story is in the sports world tonight. It's already old news. There is nothing going on in sports. And it's still a nonstory. All they know is Manning is out and the Wake Forest job is open. Next.
No one is thinking "gee, I wonder how that litigation will turn out." "Did they treat him fairly?" "How did they word his dismissal?" "Was he fired for cause? Is that ok?"
No one gives a flying shit nor does any future Coach give a crap about any of that.
It's the WF job and here is what they see:
It's the kid brother on tobacco road. A solid ACC job.
New practice facilities on par around the ACC.
Horrible home civic arena.
Fan base gone.
No other jobs out there and may not be any like it this year.
That's all they are thinking. Great job Currie having the balls to open this job now and so now we are the only one out there. Great job Mit and Sutton for helping with the buyout and the new facilities.
Everything we can control after Wellman's disasters, we now have. Great work.
Myths you heard on these boards which you can now see were false:
1) Firing Miller would be hard
2) If we screw Danny, it will hurt us
3) We are a big deal in college basketball in 2020 and everyone is watching all our words
4) Firing Danny will solve all, or even most, of our problems
5) Currie is a Wellman clone
6) We can't afford to take a risk this time--since we are such a big deal and we have a lot to lose.
Here we are, we just fired our Coach, there's like 50 of us reading these boards. We have a long way to go to get back to relevant by 2025. We must get the whole package correct to be perenially in the top 1/2 of the league. Perfect Coach, Perfect AD, Perfect Stadium. None of them can just be "servicable." Not in ACC basketball. Custodians and soccer coaches can be "servicable" or "not hurting us too bad." We need the whole package correct with our men's basketball team to succeed.
Since Ron was canned, John has begun that process nicely. It was a 5 year project given the contractual/stadium issues he was dealt. His hand already looks much improved. Years of work left but I am convinced Currie was the key piece to get us there. If you told me "you can have a stadium, coach or John Currie," I would take John Currie every time. He will get the others right and, if he doesn't, he will fix them--even fire them--until he does.