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Official Hoops Coaching Search Thread - Welcome Danny Manning!!!

The "burning bridges" thing is what has me puzzled. That could mean that the AD expects him to come back and will be pissed if he leaves. He could be getting his info from those people. Those people could be basing their feelings on wrong assumptions.

Obviously that is 100% speculation all the way around.
 
Biggus Deacus said:
Edited my post, how about asking what you want to know about more specifically?
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Appreciate you being willing to answer directly. As a Wake grad ('05), I've always been bemused at the lingering sensibility of what a proper "Wake Forest person" is. It seems to run the gamut from the way they dress to the way they vote to the way they deal with public scrutiny. In my estimation (and, if I may be so bold, many "younger" graduates, or at least new campus graduates) Wake Forest is a place of higher education where we gathered together during our formative years and were shaped into young adults. A powerful thing! An important thing! But a thing that transcends a specific worldview and approach to existence.

Broadly, my question is this: what and where is this disconnect? What is it that causes so much fear to stray from the never-defined but always judgmental "Wake Forest Way?" Was there such resistance to becoming a national university or opening a business school? Am I just a Yankee (note: I'm from the west, DAYS OF THUNDER taught me that people from the west aren't Yankees, exactly, we're "nothing") who will never get it? And is it true that Wake is only in Winston to keep the city from becoming a city of too many minorities, i.e. the tobacco kingpins' worst nightmare? Thank you in advance.
 
SkinsNDeacs said:
VT said that the dream is over and "Shy of an abrupt change of heart and a sudden/uncharacteristic willingness to torch bridges" we should focus elsewhere.

Who knows?
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Interesting. I feel like we've had our own from or close to the AD say the opposite.
 
SkinsNDeacs said:
VT said that the dream is over and "Shy of an abrupt change of heart and a sudden/uncharacteristic willingness to torch bridges" we should focus elsewhere.

Who knows?
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If the "torch bridges" part of this refers to his commitments the VCU AD or recruiting in VA, he's not leaving for 10 years at least.
 
Sometimes you gotta do you and not worry about others feelings. Shaka shouldn't care about burning VCU bridges. The bridges that will be created at wake will be much larger and better.
 
Guys, I know we're all a little bummed, but no need to get completely fucking dense tonight, OK?
 
I don't really put much stock into any of the stuff posted in the other thread.
 
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