In general, I agree with both of you. We are Wake Forestand we have the players to build on for a fairly quick turnaround for whoever decides to coach in [Redacted]'s disastrous wake. That said and I am posing this question to the both of you: what coach would want to operate in our AD's current culture?
Wellman fired a coach for not recruiting on his terms, and threw a much lived coach and program under the bus to justify a crony hire. Said crony hire waltzed to a miserable record, embarrassing effort and incidents, and awful recruiting, which were allegedly the bases upon which the past coach was fired. Furthermore, said AD has proven himself to be wildly inconsistent, less than likeable, and not amenable to compromise or collaborative decision making. Finally, said AD has a track record of hiring a particular type of basketball coach, which doesn't include the Alford or Smart type... He also isn't exactly what one would call a coach's AD. You cave to his demands or weather an embarrassing firing, where your competency, collegiality, and morality are all inappropriately called into question publically and long after your firing. Are these not legitimate questions that arise in the face of speculation that we can make a top shelf basketball hire?
Like I said, I want Shaka as much as anybody. I'm just worried that Wellman's conduct and the public state of our program will make this an impossibility.