I am [finally] there.
I do think firing a head basketball coach is night and day different from firing a coordinator in football, but I see a handful of things that - if I were AD - would lead me to bring Danny in this morning and thank him for his service:
* An offense that runs general sets. Very loose. Yes, we post up Hoard, but there is so little precision that it is a crap shoot on whether the play develops
* A team that seems to love one another, but a staff that - outside Manning who would be a good poker player - looks miserable. I fear that will eventually rub off on the team
* A team that - I would guess that due to lack of intensity in practice - cannot maintain intensity for longer than a few minutes. They then regress to some version of their coach.
* I could probably go on
I think it is a huge risk to do this. I fear that the season implodes further even with something this drastic and Wellman gets his 5th choice hire in March 2019. But ...
I would fire Manning, elevate Chill with Nestor as his #2. Move Justin Gray to the bench. Hell, ask CJ Harris if he is interested. Go full on nostalgia on the bench and see if we can gin up some excitement on the staff. Again, I think the team, mostly due to their freshman-ness, is generally excited to put on the Wake uniform. They just need to be coached as to what that means.
Happy to take your anger and snarkiness. I was wrong. I do think this is the nucleur option and if Chill is not a coach, we will essentially ruin him on this level, but I am ready to push the button. If we don't, our ACC road games are going to be ugly and we will scare away 5star talent for years as the whole college basketball world will watch future NBA starter Hoard get a beat down once or twice a week from peers who seem to be having the time of their young lives. That doesn't wash off fast.[/B]