I’d boil it down to the following:
1. A coach deserves 100% of the credit/blame for his team’s performance.
2. The best way to measure a team’s (and thus a coach’s) true performance is using a method not overly reliant on randomness.
3. As long as there are no character or academic issues with his team, a college coach should be evaluated solely on his team’s performance relative to reasonable expectations set ahead of time, not some amorphous immeasurable standard of “coaching”.
4. That Manning’s performance through three seasons met or exceeded expectations except for his 2016 recruiting class. His fourth season did not meet those expectations and his 5th season and 2019 recruiting class do not look promising.
5. That Manning had a clear, obvious path for returning us to the upper half of the ACC and was on track to do so, even with the failure of the 2016 class, until JC left.
6. That on the whole, Talent is more important than in-game coaching in college basketball.
7. That Wellman sucks and has made two back to back shitty hires (the second at least in part due to the shitty position he put himself in) and that we should hope he doesn’t get a chance to make a third.
8. That Manning’s realistic ceiling probably wasn’t much higher than that outlined in #5, but that he was a couple of tough breaks from getting us back to a sustainable level we more or less sustained for 20 years pre-[Redacted].
9. That y’all are a bunch of overreactive cry babies that couldn’t even enjoy the only good thing that has happened to Wake basketball in a decade.