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Excitement and hope when thinking about Wake basketball is such a weird feeling after a decade of shit.

Matta and Forbes are by far my top two choices and I would be ecstatic with either of them. The other guys listed I could get behind but I feel like there are a lot of question marks with them.

It might be hope, optimism or something else, but getting Matta and keeping Sarr sets us up in a place where Matta can go and try to get a couple pieces immediately in the form of transfers. I feel like the argument can be made for Forbes as well but Matta just has the name and experience that I could see attracting kids looking to transfer and make an immediate impact somewhere.

It's also a bit mind-blowing to me that Matta is younger than Forbes. I've checked it 20 times and it still isn't clicking in my head.
 
Turd Ferguson said:
Who's new team? You're just making shit up. He wasn't coming. Chaundee wasn't going to be a deciding factor for anyone.
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I said " I think" which is an opinion. One that makes sense for a 67 yo guy taking his last job.

Talk about making shit up, there's no way you could definitively say "He wasn't coming." Especially since we had been talking to him.
 
Jon Beilein does not know who Chaundee Brown is, and he was as important in Beilein's rejection of WF as the decision of Michael Wynn. Brown may have been key for WF to have a chance to crack .500 next year, but that is not moving the needle for a guy looking to win a Natty.
 
Current betting odds:

Wes Miller +300
Pat Kelsey +450
Steve Forbes +500
Ryan Odom +800
Earl Grant +1000
Russell Turner +1200
Thad Matta +1500
Beilein +2000
 
We were basically a last place team (again) last season... There is nobody looking at the WFU job and thinking, "If I can just keep this roster together, this job is worth taking!"

It is a rebuild. You can argue about how long it will take, but it's longer than the one year Chaundee was going to be here for.

I guess there is a (remote) possibility that a new coach can bring in a lovable rag-tag group of transfers to take advantage of the probable one-time transfer waiver that's coming... But even then, we're not going to be "good".
 
Pilchard said:
Jon Beilein does not know who Chaundee Brown is, and he was as important in Beilein's rejection of WF as the decision of Michael Wynn. Brown may have been key for WF to have a chance to crack .500 next year, but that is not moving the needle for a guy looking to win a Natty.
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If he doesn't know who could be on his potential team, you must think he doesn't prepare for his last job.
 
you can rebuild a basketball team with 1 recruiting class and turn a program around with 2 recruiting classes
 
RJKarl said:
I said " I think" which is an opinion. One that makes sense for a 67 yo guy taking his last job.

Talk about making shit up, there's no way you could definitively say "He wasn't coming." Especially since we had been talking to him.
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This is why people think you are full of shit. I "think" Beilein wasn't interested in the Wake job for a number of reasons that have been discussed around the boards and make sense. You picked out Chaundee Brown to talk about and said you "think" that influenced Beilein's decision.

I "think" that is pretty dumb and you have nothing to support that thought with. Carry on.
 
Beilein knows WF. He knows WF has been awful for a decade. He doesn't need to take the only available job right now, when there will be better jobs open less than a year from now. WF was never "his potential team".
 
If you don't "think" the roster makes a difference for a short term job, then nothing you think can be taken seriously.

If he was 55, you might have a point. But he's not.
 
buckets said:
you can rebuild a basketball team with 1 recruiting class and turn a program around with 2 recruiting classes
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This. The whole "5 years to build a NC team" discussion is silly. Besides a tiny handful of teams with Top 10 talent already (that aren't firing their coaches anyway), Beilein wouldn't have it any harder at Wake than most anywhere else in the P6. 5 recruiting classes is an eternity when you are going after 1-3 year players anyway. He's to a place in his career where he's selling himself, not the school.
 
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Pilchard said:
Jon Beilein does not know who Chaundee Brown is, and he was as important in Beilein's rejection of WF as the decision of Michael Wynn. Brown may have been key for WF to have a chance to crack .500 next year, but that is not moving the needle for a guy looking to win a Natty.
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RJKarl said:
If he doesn't know who could be on his potential team, you must think he doesn't prepare for his last job.
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I can see Beilein sitting around his kitchen table discussing life with his wife.

Coach: You know, I'm interested in the Wake job. Currie is pretty cool and they are going to throw alot of money at me. I mean, it still smells a little like unwiped ass there, but we'll turn it around in a year or two.
[Phone rings]
Coach: Aw fuck, never mind. Chaundee is out.
 
Turd, you are about as accurate giving me shit about this as ATS was giving me shit saying that Buckets created the odds he posted.
 
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