This is why I really don't care anything about what happens. It isn't college sports anymore. It's a minor league professional sports system masquerading as college sports.
I don't care who WF hires. They could not hire anyone and shut the program down and it would be fine with me....if the alternative was to try to emulate a school like Kentucky. I just think that people who have no problem with recruiting a team full of James Johnsons should not have their noses stuck up in the air about what a great academic institution we have. I see a moral conflict with trying to be a great academic institution and a basketball whore at the same time.
We probably shouldn't be in the ACC in today's money-driven sports situation, anyway. We're never going to consistently compete under the current monetary dynamics, anyway...no matter who we have as a coach, because if he is good enough to win championships he either wouldn't have come here in the first place, or would be quickly swallowed up by a bigger fish in the sports world food chain.... and this is only going to lead to the increasing frustrations that have been building for years. There have been 76 NCAA Final Fours. Wake Forest has played in one of them....and that was 52 years ago. The ACC has been around for 61 years. WF has won 4 basketball championships....only two in the last 52 years, and they were the result of accidentally stumbling upon the best player in the school's history. And with the economic requirements to compete at the top level of college sports today, it would be even harder for WF to win championships than it has been during those 61 & 76 years. Any prospective coach understands this, whether some people on this board choose to accept that reality or not. No coach whose goal is to win championships would ever take the coaching job at Wake Forest....only one who wants to make a lot more money than he could make at some other school with similarly limited championship possibilities.
People are entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts.
Rock bottom was 4 years ago, even if Manning turns us down.
The people predicting Danny Manning will be the next coach at Kansas someday are really stretching. Really, really.
In other words, about like it has done for the great majority of the last 50 years. We have had a winning record in the ACC only 16 times in the last 50 years. We have won as many as 10 games in the conference only 7 times in the last 50 years.
1964–65 Bones McKinney 12–15 6–8 5th
1965–66 Jack Murdock 8–18 4–10 T-6th
1966–67 Jack McCloskey 9–18 5–9 T-5th
1967–68 Jack McCloskey 5–21 3–11 T-7th
1968–69 Jack McCloskey 18–9 8–6 T-3rd
1969–70 Jack McCloskey 14–13 6–8 5th
1970–71 Jack McCloskey 16–10 7–7 4th
1971–72 Jack McCloskey 8–18 3–9 6th
1972–73 Carl Tacy 12–15 3–9 7th
1973–74 Carl Tacy 13–13 3–9 6th
1974–75 Carl Tacy 13–13 2–10 T-6th
1975–76 Carl Tacy 17–10 5–7 T-4th
1976–77 Carl Tacy 22–8 8–4 T-2nd NCAA Regional Finals
1977–78 Carl Tacy 19–10 6–6 T-4th
1978–79 Carl Tacy 12–15 3–9 T-6th
1979–80 Carl Tacy 13–14 4–10 7th
1980–81 Carl Tacy 22–7 9–5 3rd NCAA Second Round
1981–82 Carl Tacy 21–9 9–5 3rd NCAA Second Round
1982–83 Carl Tacy 20–12 7–7 5th NIT Semifinals
1983–84 Carl Tacy 23–9 7–7 T-3rd NCAA Regional Final
1984–85 Carl Tacy 15–14 5–9 T-6th NIT First Round
1985–86 Bob Staak 8–21 0–14 8th
1986–87 Bob Staak 14–15 2–12 7th
1987–88 Bob Staak 10–18 3–11 8th
1988–89 Bob Staak 13–15 3–11 7th
1989–90 Dave Odom 12–16 3–11 8th
1990–91 Dave Odom 19–11 8–6 T-3rd NCAA Second Round
1991–92 Dave Odom 17–12 7–9 6th NCAA First Round
1992–93 Dave Odom 21–9 10–6 T-3rd NCAA Regional Semifinals
1993–94 Dave Odom 21–12 9–7 3rd NCAA Second Round
1994–95 Dave Odom 26–6 12–4 1st NCAA Regional Semifinals
1995–96 Dave Odom 26–6 12–4 2nd NCAA Regional Final
1996–97 Dave Odom 24–7 11–5 T-2nd NCAA Second Round
1997–98 Dave Odom 16–14 7–9 T-4th NIT Second Round
1998–99 Dave Odom 17–14 7–9 4th NIT Second Round
1999–00 Dave Odom 22–14 7–9 5th NIT Champions
2000–01 Dave Odom 19–11 8–8 T-5th NCAA First Round
2001–02 Skip Prosser 21–13 9–7 T-3rd NCAA Second Round
2002–03 Skip Prosser 25–6 13–3 1st NCAA Second Round
2003–04 Skip Prosser 21–10 9–7 T-3rd NCAA Regional Semifinals
2004–05 Skip Prosser 27–6 13–3 2nd NCAA Second Round
2005–06 Skip Prosser 17–17 3–13 12th NIT First Round
2006–07 Skip Prosser 15–16 5–11 T-10th
2007–08 Dino Gaudio 17–13 7–9 T-7th
2008–09 Dino Gaudio 24–7 11–5 T-2nd NCAA First Round
2009–10 Dino Gaudio 20–11 9–7 T-5th NCAA Second Round
2010–11 Jeff [Redacted] 8–24 1–15 12th
2011–12 Jeff [Redacted] 13–18 4–12 T-12th
2012–13 Jeff [Redacted] 13–18 6–12 T-9th
2013–14 Jeff [Redacted] 17-16 6-12 T-11th
In other words, about like it has done for the great majority of the last 50 years. We have had a winning record in the ACC only 16 times in the last 50 years. We have won as many as 10 games in the conference only 7 times in the last 50 years.
I have a suggestion for you: Why don't you worry about your posts and let me worry about mine?
The vast majority of coaches' overall reputation waxes and wanes as their record goes one way or another. The problem for WFU right now is that we're trying to hire coaches who are waxing while we are waning. We need someone who can wax, would be a good fit here, and maybe has not waxed yet or is waning for the first time due to something that isn't damning.