You are living in la la land. I really don’t understand how you think Manning is all of a sudden going to turn things around or how you rationalize defending him. He just played one of his best recruits for seven minutes in a conference road game. Good luck selling that and some new facilities to top flight players in the country who are looking to go to programs with a proven coach and a winning record. Manning is now, what, 51-63 as Wake’s HC?
You say you don’t always defend Manning. That might be true (a bit of a reach, though, since you almost always fall back on the bullshit mantra that players have to make plays, the coaches didn’t miss FTs and wide open layups, etc...) but you’re way too optimistic about what he’s shown so far. He was a huge gamble when we hired him and the gamble hasn’t paid off. Not sure what else there is to discuss, but please keep telling us all how great everything will be when we get some new recruits because of our sparkly new facilities. #Manningout