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Richard Joyce
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There have been some good articles on Demon Deacon Digest (old paid Scout site). Recent Manning interview initially seemed like all the rest where all responses were simply stating the obvious but this one got a little more out of him. http://www.scout.com/college/wake-forest/story/1722966-manning-on-moore-building-roster Below is one interesting selection.
Manning: “There are so many challenges that are out there that are just part of the job. When you take over a job, part of the reason is to coach the guys that are there, but when you get there, you have to re-recruit those guys. They look at you like, ‘you didn’t recruit me. You didn’t recruit me for this system.’ So you go through that, but then you’re also trying to actively recruit incoming kids. Then there’s the elephant in the room, with APR. A lot of times you get saddled with whatever number the school has. Wake Forest had a good number, but not good enough where you can walk in there and have a conversation with each individual that probably would have been a little different.
“I thought going into it that I wanted to give everybody on the roster a chance. I feel good about that, because that’s what we did. The process of the players we have now to where we started kind of weeded itself out so to speak.”
Nothing earth shattering but the bit about APR and fact that conversations would have been different with existing team members if APR had been higher seemed a little more honest than perhaps even he meant to be.
Manning: “There are so many challenges that are out there that are just part of the job. When you take over a job, part of the reason is to coach the guys that are there, but when you get there, you have to re-recruit those guys. They look at you like, ‘you didn’t recruit me. You didn’t recruit me for this system.’ So you go through that, but then you’re also trying to actively recruit incoming kids. Then there’s the elephant in the room, with APR. A lot of times you get saddled with whatever number the school has. Wake Forest had a good number, but not good enough where you can walk in there and have a conversation with each individual that probably would have been a little different.
“I thought going into it that I wanted to give everybody on the roster a chance. I feel good about that, because that’s what we did. The process of the players we have now to where we started kind of weeded itself out so to speak.”
Nothing earth shattering but the bit about APR and fact that conversations would have been different with existing team members if APR had been higher seemed a little more honest than perhaps even he meant to be.
Any ranking related to academics that puts Louisville and Clemson at the top is a little suspect. 
