Just had another horrifying thought. Most of these teams (save probably Richmond) keep their athletic department afloat by playing high majors for a price. Guarantee money is the name of the game, and it usually costs at least $35,000 and as much as $75-90,000 to get a team in the 300 RPI range to come and play on your home court. The big dogs don't mind paying for a few guaranteed wins, and the small schools don't mind getting raped a few times because it pays the bills and you get to expose your team to big time basketball.
Colgate
VMI
Presbyterian
Jacksonville
Citadel
Tulane
UNC-G
All required guarantee money to come play. They simply aren't going to play one of these games without getting paid. St. Bonaventure and Richmond also probably got some cash, but at a lower amount. If we low ball the estimates on these opponents I think we can safely say it will cost us $35,000 a piece averaged out over the 9 contests. A few of them probably cost as much as $60k, and like I said earlier I bet Richmond and St. B were much lower. So in addition to fielding the least competitive schedule in the history of Wake Forest Basketball, and paying our inept coach a million dollars to embarass us, we are now shelling out an additional $300k to bring in teams that nobody will come and watch.
It is almost like Wellman is trolling the entire Wake Forest community. Everytime I think we have hit bottom, he takes us further. I feel like we are stuck in Inception Hell. If there is a better visual of the collective state of our fanbase than this clip, then I would love to see it, but I feel like this is where I am atleast.