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Any word on Sy? His left knee buckled coming down. Not sure if that's a problem knee from the past.
Out of all those ideas, expanding the school is supposedly the only one already in the works. Wake is adding new staff for the engineering programs that started three or four years ago and the rumor is they’ll build another dorm and some academic buildings for engineering on what is now Davis field. Obviously don’t know if that’s true or if covid has changed that but I head that from kids in student gov a couple years ago. I think adding a thousand or so students would be fine as long as we do it by adding programs and not by lowering academic standards.
That's too bad, if true. I completely agree with berneses. Successful schools, just like successful businesses, know their strengths, weaknesses, unique qualities, etc. Wake is the smallest P5 school, which is an incredibly unique selling point. Dr. Hatch expanded Wake (some would say trying to emulate Notre Dame), and it didn't improve out academic standing, gameday attendance, etc. We need to embrace and market what makes us unique. Our small size with P5 athletics is a great combo, which allows us to focus on specific areas of academic excellence and undergrad teaching.
We had full crowds at the Joel when Wake had fewer students, so attendance isn't about undergrad size at this point. Our poor bball attendance is secondary to 10 years of losing, the pandemic, and a weak out of conference set of games.
Counterpoint: successful businesses also understand how to adapt and pivot to meet the needs of the future.
Davis Field is pretty much the last bit of green space left on campus. What a bummer.
Definitely no room for an on-campus arena unless they build on that shitty strip between campus and the football stadium.
Any word on Sy? His left knee buckled coming down. Not sure if that's a problem knee from the past.
Any word on Sy? His left knee buckled coming down. Not sure if that's a problem knee from the past.
Out of all those ideas, expanding the school is supposedly the only one already in the works. Wake is adding new staff for the engineering programs that started three or four years ago and the rumor is they’ll build another dorm and some academic buildings for engineering on what is now Davis field. Obviously don’t know if that’s true or if covid has changed that but I head that from kids in student gov a couple years ago. I think adding a thousand or so students would be fine as long as we do it by adding programs and not by lowering academic standards.
To confirm, fairly quickly: --------There is also a plan to re-route Wake Forest Road directly up past Scales towards the Quad (so somewhat symmetrical to the other side of campus).
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To confirm, fairly quickly: there will be a building going in on the corner of Davis near Olin/ZSR/Benson; the current plan is to use it as academic swing space for overflow departments and to allow renovations to other buildings as needed. There is also a plan to re-route Wake Forest Road directly up past Scales towards the Quad (so somewhat symmetrical to the other side of campus).
Source: This has all been disclosed at planning meetings that have been open for anyone to attend, albeit these plans were put in place pre-COVID. No need for secrecy here.
Nothing yet. I think we're just going to have to take a wait and Sy approach.
Is Wake actually somewhat good again????
DA7, there is more talent top to bottom on this team except for the Collins team, they are playing cupcakes now but looking like a basketball team instead of five guys trying to do there own thing out there. We will see if this continues. My hope is we can steal some in conference wins and start to let the conference know that Wake is not a walkover anymore. Hoping to get to 50-50 in conference.