My kids, who love basketball, would rather take a bath and go to bed than stay up and watch Wake's 7 pm games.
"Hey boys would you like to make a sundae and stay up a little late tonight. I'll give you a pass, the Deacs are on!"
In unison... "Nah, we'll just go watch Jimmy Neutron for the 45th time and go to bed at the regular time. Thanks tho..."
Yep. "Hey honey, I'm going to skip out on family dinner so I can watch some crappy basketball." That logic doesn't fly not just for my wife, but to myself.
I talked to a buddy of mine who has two boys. He's a diehard, one of our best fans. I said he's only taken his boys to the Joel once in the last year. He can't justify it. There are so many more fun things to do with your kids than go to watch a Bz coached Wake basketball team. He grew up looking forward to sharing ACC basketball with his kids and now looks around and not only is Wake basketball bad, but ACC basketball as a whole is almost unwatchable.
You can easily walk to the Joel from the Quad. It might as well be on "on campus".
And nobody is going to build a coliseum on the WF campus for the next 50 years, so everyone might as well quit talking about that. In the first place, it would be a totally inefficient use of a huge amount of funds, with the Joel within walking distance of the campus (if you can't bring the coliseum to the campus, bring the campus to the coliseum, etc); and in the second place, there's no place to put it, even if you miraculously had someone to pay for it.
You can easily walk to the Joel from the Quad. It might as well be on "on campus".
And nobody is going to build a coliseum on the WF campus for the next 50 years, so everyone might as well quit talking about that. In the first place, it would be a totally inefficient use of a huge amount of funds, with the Joel within walking distance of the campus (if you can't bring the coliseum to the campus, bring the campus to the coliseum, etc); and in the second place, there's no place to put it, even if you miraculously had someone to pay for it.
You touched on the worst part of the situation. The ACC is absolutely awful and Wake is near the bottom. At least in the Staak years, 6 of the 8 teams in the conference were anywhere from good to great. Now, there are two top 10 teams, another that is barely in the top 25 and the rest suck. Take away Duke and Carolina and the conference is on par with VCU, Old Dominion, George Mason, etc.
Not only do I not watch Wake, I cannot even watch the ACC.
Well it's a relative thing. Going from living and dying with each possession to dreading watching your team play and not really being affected by it kinda sucks.
My kids, who love basketball, would rather take a bath and go to bed than stay up and watch Wake's 7 pm games.
"Hey boys would you like to make a sundae and stay up a little late tonight. I'll give you a pass, the Deacs are on!"
In unison... "Nah, we'll just go watch Jimmy Neutron for the 45th time and go to bed at the regular time. Thanks tho..."
This all started with the WVU loss, after which I didn't want to care anymore. Now, even when I try to care, I find it very difficult.
This all started with the WVU loss, after which I didn't want to care anymore. Now, even when I try to care, I find it very difficult.
It is within walking distance, but not within 'walking distance.'
So very true for me also. I have found it hard to pour the heart & soul into basketball since then. I was at that game and what I witnessed coaching wise was very disturbing and just haven't felt the same since.
It is the same for football, basketball tennis & baseball. So what difference does it make? We have great facilities, great parking and very convenient.
If you "walked" to a game at UNC-Ch or MD or UVa, you are walking as far or further. Clemson & VT have their football & basketball side by side just like us. BC is connected to the same building for football-basketball & hockey.
NC State is not convenient & neither is GT