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Same. I thought they got lapped or something. That's what a lifetime of being a Deacon fan does to your psyche.

This is NOT intended as a dig at Pilchard, who I respect as a poster, and remember fondly from our ancient battles under prior user names. Having said that, the day Pilchard says WFU basketball is fucked beyond hope is the day I start digging a bomb shelter and assembling canned goods.

What we are finding out is that this is no longer amateur sports. It's some sort of minor professional league, only without the guardrails in place to at least make the process seem orderly from afar. This is no longer college sports. It's capitalism on meth. I thought (and am not completely...

Almost every development around WFU basketball does not fall our way, and it's been that way for a while. Which means we have to hang our hats on an ever-increasing number of future counteracting good developments just to maintain status quo. That is not a good bet statistically. In our case...

Somehow I only just discovered Long Haul Paul. Damn, son, this is Townes-level writing.

Preach. So about the bird thing. There's a Phoebe nest in the eve beneath the ceiling on my back porch, with at least two baby birds in there. Yesterday afternoon maybe 4-5 Swallows (I assumed Barn Swallows, but I don't know for sure) started flying all through the porch, right over and...

Dude, I've been on this board for 13 years, and have just over a thousand posts. I will give you credit, though, for crafting a perfectly annoying message board persona. You really have perfected the art of annoyance. It somehow irritates the crap out of me, and makes me laugh at the same...

I mean, if we were rebuilding to be an actual good team, maybe (not really, but it would be possible). I'm just not interested in watching WFU scramble to cobble together a decent-looking, but under-achieving and questionably coached team every single year. I guess I'm just not a dedicated...

I realize that I post this exact same thing every time this comes up, but everyone has a hill and this is mine. No one should subscribe to ANY online business that makes it any harder than clicking a button to unsubscribe. It is unquestionably an admission that they don't believe in the worth...

This is the kind of post that blows my mind. Forbes has done good in the portal, and our high-point is losing in an early round of the NIT. I can't tell if I'm being brilliantly trolled (and if so bravo) or if there is just a level of support and optimism beyond my comprehension.

I wish I was as optimistic as some here are (or at least somewhere in the middle). But there's a "'tis but a scratch" vibe that just doesn't align with my experience with WFU sports in general or WFU basketball in particular. That experience tells me we live in the great mediocre, with brief...

Forbes clearly wins the press conferences (which after our last two awful coaches is an improvement). He can clearly work the portal, though as more programs get their NIL ducks aligned, it's an open question whether WFU can sustain it. But either he recruits soft, hard-to-teach players or he...

The utter destruction of the WFU basketball program is one of the most inexcusable things I've ever observed. I mean, we all make bad decisions. But to make the sort of decisions Wellman made, then to double down on them, and then to speak in the most condescending manner possible to WFU...

College sports as we grew up with it doesn't exist anymore. So, while I think rivalries matter, I think they matter very little compared to the economic influence of $$$ and the psychological influence of getting left out of the new order.

Maybe. While I am not pointing to Vanderbilt as an example of a proactive athletic department, I think the recent basketball coach move and NIL announcements were influenced in part by a desire to keep its spot at the party. Again, brand enhancement, even if it involves basketball. It's...

I mostly agree with this, but success matters to the brand. We're not trying to distinguish ourselves from the Georgias and Michigans. We're trying to distinguish ourselves from the schools in similar situations who are also hoping for a chair when the music stops. An intact bowl streak would...

I think we would have more options if our bowl streak was intact (optics matter; sorry Windy) and our basketball program had not fallen off the edge of the world. Would we get in the B10? Likely not. But would we be better off? Yep. This is a problem that started before this year, so I...

So it's all good then? Good to know. We just need to make sure everyone who isn't a WFU fan realizes how dumb and non-representative the academic and athletic rankings are.

I'll take a stab, in reverse order. Reveal nothing, but avoid making the sort of idiotic statements Wellman would make. I think they're doing that. I thought Currie's statement was fine, even good actually. He's walking the fence. I would do this, generally speaking: 1. Figure out as soon...

I hope Sallis comes back, but in a year filled with the most Wake-things ever, that would be the least Wake-thing ever.