It's like karma man. Ying and yang.
If Wellman is still here until 2018, much less 2021, I will find something else to do with my time than follow Wake sports.
If Wellman is still here until 2018, much less 2021, I will find something else to do with my time than follow Wake sports.
Change will happen, but it will happen at Wake Forest speed.
The scenario I see playing out: Hatch finishes Wake Will campaign (scheduled to end in 2018) and then announces retirement probably 6-12 months thereafter (sometime in 2019). New president search takes a year or so. Sometime not long after that, Wellman retirement will be announced.
Wellman is 68.He has been WF AD for 23 years. Gene Hooks was AD for 28. Wellman may want to hold on until he has the longest tenure of any Wake AD. That would occur in 2021, when he would be about 73 years old and, coincidentally, would be about a year after a new WF president is in place if my guessed at timeline holds.
Hatch has recently concluded two significant non-Wake Forest positions: Chair of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) and the NCAA Division I Board of Directors. He has one more big job to finish: Wake Will. Hatch serving as WFU president until 2021 would put his tenure length shorter than that of his four most recent predecessors, and 6 of the last 7.
The BoT are a bunch of self-serving, arrogant, demanding caricatures who know ZERO about running an institution of higher education.
They might know how to run a business or a political campaign, quite well, but they have no clue how to run a University or Athletic Department (disaster).
Don't agree? Just ask a BoT member the last time they had a conversation with a student or faculty member. Not a meeting or glass of wine at a fundraiser, but a conversation.
If Wellman's replacement comes from within the current department someone should be shot.
Just in time for CP4 to sign his LOI!
So, just long enough to make sure Wake is completely irrelevant in football and basketball
One policy that was instituted within the last 10 years or so is the almost complete banishment of JuCo students from Wake Forest.(and I'm not just talking athletes.). JuCo grads can be admitted, but very few credits transfer, thus, effectively, they are starting as freshmen, even after completing an AA. Wake used to accept high quality students from JuCo and they graduated from Wake and went on to successful careers. I have never heard a good explanation as to the change to not accepting JuCo credits.
Got to be trying to inflate the USN&WR ranking- to no avail so far as we've actually DROPPED from #23 to #27 IIRC.
If Wellman is still here until 2018, much less 2021, I will find something else to do with my time than follow Wake sports.
I think that's a broad generalization. I was at Wake the same time as Ben Sutton and Jay Helvey, and I can assure you that both of those guys are big hoops (and overall athletic fans). In the case of the former, that's pretty obvious.
To make sure as many graduates as possible pay as much as possible.