Maybe I'm alone here but I don't automatically give credence to all of the culture comments to begin with.
Dino graduated every player who stayed 4 years. When he fired Dino, Wellman said it was about postseason success - not culture.
The word culture never came out until the whole abortion of a hire had played out. The whole thing seems like it came out to justify canning a guy with a 61-31 record for a guy with no track record of success. If you can't point to objective criteria why you made a good hire, all that's left is to talk about perceived intangibles. Segue to the disaster of the season that we just finished, and the banner gets carried on. After all, there's no objective way to paint the state of the program in a positive light, so again we just fall back to the perceived intangibles.
Put it another way... Assume for a second that Wellman intended to go after Brad Stevens when he fired Dino. Stevens was certainly the next hot commodity. He represented a young, dynamic coach with the potential to build a national program and stay for his career. But how would Stevens have been a culture change? He recruits mostly 2 and 3 star players at Butler, but who knows what players he would recruit at Wake? I have a hard time believing he'd be saying things like "5-star heart over 5-star talent." I think he'd go after the best players he could get.
The whole culture thing never became an issue until Ron fucked the whole thing up in the first place. Given the credibility gap that's developed since Bz has been hired, is this really that far fetched?
And FWIW, since the season's ended I've found myself migrating back to more of a BzWait perspective. First and foremost, not having to watch the team play on a regular basis has done wonders for my point of view. I do realize that Bz isn't going anywhere (I realized it during the season, too). With the positive press that our recruits are getting, at this point i do want to see what Bz can do with his guys. The question is, will the product on the court pull me back next fall.