Like déjà vu all over again. You keep making the same mistakes in the name of fandom. Just like Odom, Skip, Dino, and Bz. You missed hard on all of them and now you're going into this too optimistic.
Yep. I really missed hard on [Redacted] when I said he was a disaster the day he was hired.
If Manning can take us to 6 NCAA trips in the next 7 years, be named ACC coach of the year 3 times during that span, win a regular season league title for the first time in 30 plus years (guess he can't do that one) and two ACC tourney titles (after a 30 plus year drought - guess he can't do that one), get us to the Sweet 16 three times and take us to an Elite 8, I'd be pretty hard pressed to consider his record a failure given he is essentially starting from the same (if not a better) position than Odom.
Or perhaps he'll get us to the Sweet 16, win a regular season title, be named coach of the year, collect 100 wins faster than all but 2 other ACC coaches in history and get us to a No. 1 ranking for the first time in school history (guess he can't do that one) all within 4 years. Because that too is apparently failure.
It's really easy to be a miserable douchebag and take pot shots about how X or Y isn't good enough. It is even easier to predict failure. Because when it comes to major college sports most coaches don't ever win a national title or go to 9 straight Final Fours, much less even win a single conference title. Predicting failure is easy. It's also easy, as you are prone to do, to look at success that is achieved and proclaim that it wasn't enough. That it should have been more or done a different way - which is something you also love to do.
It's easy to pick out all the warts. That's your schtick. And those who don't play along with your little game are always settling. This is nothing more than a stupid game you play. You'll tell us all about how much you hope Manning succeeds, and I'm sure you want him to. But what you'll also do is wait around and then proclaim some time in the future that he isn't meeting expectations. And you'll move and mold those expectations as you go. Because that's what miserable douche bags like you do. If he wins you'll claim he could have won more. If he loses you'll claim he never was good enough. You will write things like he deserves more blame for his failures and whatever success he achieves will be for some other reason - that his role was minor. That's just you being your typical twatish self, feeding your inner troll. And it will go beyond Manning. No matter what he does - good or bad - you'll write about how other people here are settling.
His record will speak for itself. And that is what he should be judged upon. In the meantime, maybe you should apply some of the same standards to which you hold those that represent our university with any measure of success to your own lifetime accomplishments. Getting a doctorate is great and everything. No doubt that was a big time accomplishment. I think it was from Dook too - which is some really high cotton. But what the fuck, you're teaching and doing research at the 170th ranked national university in the country. Shouldn't someone as bright, capable and critical of others like you be holding your own career achievements to a much higher standard than teaching at a school that is roughly the academic equivalent of VCU or ECU. Or is that being too optimistic of what you are really capable of doing?
As for me being too optimistic, whatever. I'd rather believe our new coach can be a success. And I'd rather see us be loyal to the greatest warrior Wake hoops has ever known than to toss him aside and proclaim from on high he can't succeed simply because his last boss was a stiff. I want to see what he can do with a fresh start. Manning and Childress are both winners. Assuming Childress get's a spot at the table, I'm more than happy to let them take their best shot and I'm going to choose to believe they can succeed. If they have an arch of success at all like Odom and Prosser, I'll enjoy the ride. If they sustain it even longer than those guys, all the better. If they fail I'm sure you'll be here to tell us all how you were right. So you'll have that going for you.
