Wellman had made an assessment and had a back-up. He's just arrogant and incompetent.
So, you might say that his assessment was incorrect. But, either way the decisions are linked. There is no way around it.
Wellman had made an assessment and had a back-up. He's just arrogant and incompetent.
Even if the probabilities are assessed correctly, I would posit that none of them was 100% one way or the other. When dealing with people, even the best assessment can end up with the result being the lower probability one. So decisions like hiring and firing are not cut and dried probability distributions.
This is silly. Of course, you separate them. They are 100% independent and individual acts. The previous coach could absolutely deserve to be fired and you could fail the hire.
The fact that no other P6 or any school hired him as a HC shows Dino was not respected in the industry.
Please provide a list of schools that declined to hire dino. Show me the interviews he took. You have no idea what job (s) he was interested in and did not get.
Dino lost his best friend and stepped away. He was making a good living at a slower pace. The only thing we do know is he took a job with a former co-worker who he probably considers a friend. Maybe no other job offered the list of intangibles he found at louisville.
Most agree he was not likely to be the long term guy to take wake from top 30 program to the next level. I just dont understand taking every chance to shit on a coach that won 60% of his games under difficult circumstances while learning and adapting a new defense successfully. He is a far better coach than the ones that came after.
F U ronnie
Any time you are attempting to predict the future outcome of actions of a single human being the uncertainties in the variables quickly become so large as to make the probability distributions unmanageable. Particularly when the future being predicted is influenced by the actions of 100's of other people, and a bunch of them are teenage boys.
The problem with a straight linear concept is that you have to do one of the actions before even trying the next one. We had to fire Dino before getting real answers from anyone else. Contacts made before that were generic and abstract. They often don't resemble the reality of what happens when an answer can be acted upon.
Add to this there are many other factors. You can reach out to a person in the Coach X camp before you fire your coach and hear, "Of course, we'd be very interested if your job opened up this year. It's a great job and we love your school."
That sounds like a great probability. After you fire coach, you get into the details that could kill the deal feeling that the deal is basically done, but it isn't close.
This is why you can't apply "science" to everything.
Dino has done well since his dismissal. He was well compensated by WFU as per his contract. He established himself as an analyst and color commentator in the lucrative sports entertainment industry, an occupation he can resume in the future. His firing is viewed sympathetically and as a mistake by most basketball fans, especially when the past eight years of WFU basketball is considered. He has resumed his coaching career with a successful and respected friend at upper echelon basketball program in need of an overhaul and return to respectability. Compared to the past eight years of Demon Deacon basketball, Dino won and Wellman lost. It isn't close.
If it was such a mistake, he would have gotten another P6 job during the past eight years. He didn't get a sniff of one. His "return" is as a third assistant not even an associate HC.
It was correct to fire him, but then Wellman fucked up big time afterwards.