Wellman Assesses Deacons' Future With Optimism (WSJ)

[Ayo]

http://www.journalnow.com/sports/wf...cle_ecb7f92b-5f0a-570b-8a8d-f5ee294714fb.html

“When you have a record like this it’s always disappointing. You have to dig a little deeper as to why the record is like this and fact is, when you lose two players that we lost, there aren’t many programs that can recover from that,” Wellman said, referring to John Collins and Dinos Mitoglou.

Deserved its own thread.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

opcorn:

 

[ImTheCaptain]

 

[liveanddiedeac]

The problem is not what he said, 95 percent of the AD's in the country would say something very similar even if they were getting ready to fire the current coach. The problem is I think he believes that crap. I also get tired of all the credit that's been given to last season. Last season wasn't all that good, only compared to the other 7 of the last 8 years makes it look good. We had the best player we've had since at least Aminu or maybe even CP3 and we went 19-14 and were one of the last teams in the expanded 68 team field. That's basically no different than in football over an 8 year period winning no more than 3-4 games in a season, except one where you go 6-6 and make a bad bowl game.

 

[tvcigar]

Where can I get the good drugs that will make me believe this?

 

[lawdeke]

"Oh Heavens yes!"

 

[one4theroad]

He was not overly complimentary of Manning or the coaching staff.

 

[06deacon]

He’s going to avoid honestly appraising our performance this season just like he did with [Redacted]. That super hedge about next year’s expectations is cringeworthy.

 

[sailordeac]

Wellman, the nightmare that never ends and the most predictably annoying interview on the planet. Someone make him please stop, just please stop. It's like having Lenox in charge of our basketball program.

 

[ImTheCaptain]

the only known image of the donors who support wellman:

 

[daaberry]

So the question becomes: Does Wellman have confidence the Deacons will be in the upper echelon of the ACC next year?

“If everybody is here, yes. I think that’s the potential of this team, or that will be the potential of the team,” Wellman said. “But we’ve got a long way to go to see what exactly is going to happen, too.”

The preceding paragraph didn't list Key as a planned departure so it already is set up to use him bolting as a reason why things didn't go according to plan.

 

[ImTheCaptain]

tagger is spot on

 

[PhDeac]

I just don't get the logic of keeping a coach who hasn't shown he can do the job to coach promising young players.

 

[TheIshThatSaved WakeForest]

I’m putting the o/u on additional roster losses (already assuming Key as gone) at 1.5.

 

[inspectah]

http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/all/director

 

[Ayo]

I’m putting the o/u on additional roster losses (already assuming Key as gone) at 1.5.

Not counting Rich Washington either?

 

[PhDeac]

I’m putting the o/u on additional roster losses (already assuming Key as gone) at 1.5.

1.5 players in addition to Woods or counting him as the 1?

 

[pinochadeac]

You know you are lying when you repeat things.

“But I am very confident about our future, with what we have coming back and what we have coming in, I feel very, very confident about our future.”

 

[TheIshThatSaved WakeForest]

In addition to Woods, Rich and SJM

 

[PhDeac]

In addition to Woods, Rich and SJM

Gotcha. I could see Crawford and Moore taking a shot at the pros. I could see Melo or Mitchell transferring. Maybe even Chaundee.