This is Shaka’s second worst season at Texas. He’s 14-11. On this date in Manning’s best season, he was 15–11.
So we are comparing our future coach to fucking Danny Manning? Raise the ceiling people. We shouldn’t have to compare a candidate to Danny!
He’s getting fired from Texas for a reason, failure to win. He’s had the top recruiting classes in the country, and failed. He’s not going to be getting them at Wake for at least a year or two. He’s going to have to build a foundation, and work his way up. He didn’t do that at VCU. He inherited a solid program with some recent success. Wake has historical success, but no success in the last decade. If he can’t get it done at a school like Texas with all of those resources, I don’t think we should want him here.
Not saying he’s a bad coach, just think there are some other guys out there who can coach just as well, and had to start from the bottom and work their way up. Wes Miller has done that. He brought UNCG out of nowhere and has them consistently winning 27-28 games a season. He’s gotten into multiple tournaments. That’s about as good as you can do at UNCG. Not saying he’s our guy, but he should be on the running. He has experience starting from the bottom and building a program up. Not only do we need a coach who can build us up again, but they need to be proven winners (Wes is). They need to have had some winning success. There’s multiple coaches that fit that build. Bob Richey, Wes Miller, Craig Smith, Matt McMahon, and Niko Medved are all guys that fit the build, and I think would be great coaches for Wake Forest. Niko Medved has turned programs around very quickly.
There are some big time coaches out there that don’t get the exposure they deserve, which is a good thing for Wake. This is a great year to find the coach we want, because it doesn’t look like there are going to be as many offseason firings as in years past. We could see Brownell, and Christian being fired from the ACC, but that’s still up in the air. Brownell has had some big time wins this year, and also a lot of bad losses. Across the country, there shouldn’t be as many firings. This is the year. Also, no Brownell should not even be considered a candidate if he’s fired. Soooo LOWF.