Wake fires their head basketball coach....

[topdawg.sixpack]

http://www.wxii12.com/sports/23080340/detail.html

 

[pDigital32Dawg]

61-31 is not a bad record and include the Tourney appearances. Wake Forest has potential to be a dominant school but you might raise some eyebrows for the wrong reasons firing coaches for success.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

The Wake board is all over Stevens. Some want Tubby. A few want Gregg Marshall.

 

[cps36]

I mean do they think they are going to land a coach K type? They better drop MANY millions ifg the want Butler's Coach.

Three seasons? Two ncaas.
Ranked number 1 at one point.
Won twice as many as he lost.
Players leaving for NBA.
What a bunch of pricks at Wake.

 

[topdawg.sixpack]

Three seasons? Two ncaas.
Ranked number 1 at one point.

Also, this guy took over right before the start of his fist season with the death of Skip Prosser....

 

[patdog]

Seriously, Wake has lost their 17ing mind. They're not going to find anyone who will win more there than he has.

 

[mstateglfr]

Is Wake's AD related to Coach? My gosh that is just absurd.

They have had a coulpe of NBA guys leave and now Aminu is leaving, who may be a top5 draft pick.
They made the NCAAT the last 2 seasons.
They were friggin 1 in the nation at one point.
They land elite players consistently.
They have won 2x more than lost.

What is the right direction, if all this adds up to the wrong direction?!?! The ONLY blemish is not making a deep run in the NCAAT...but he has only had 3 tries. Damn that AD hasa happy trigger finger.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

The prevailing feeling there (if that is a good barometer) is that Dino was a great guy but not a good coach. They cite a lack of fundamentals and improvement.

 

[patdog]

They had a 17-17 and 15-16 season the 2 years before he took over. He took them to their 1st NCAA tournament in 4 years last year and then won their 1st NCAA tournament game in 5 years this year.

 

[Hanmudog]

If maybe they were clearing the way for a big hire like Butler's coach or a big name. Tubby Smith would be a pretty bad hire. He did not exactly light it up at Minnesota or even UK his last couple of years there.

 

[fishwater99]

DawgatAuburn]The prevailing feeling there (if that is a good barometer) is that Dino was a great guy but not a good coach. They cite a lack of offensive coaching fundamentals and improvement.

And some sheep get mad when we want a better coach at MSU. This is freaking hilarious.

 

[mstateglfr]

DawgatAuburn[/b]]The prevailing feeling there (if that is a good barometer) is that Dino was a great guy but not a good coach. They cite a lack of offensive coaching fundamentals and improvement.

And some sheep get mad when we want a better coach at MSU. This is freaking hilarious.

Sure, id love a better coach. I would love a coach that can bring in elite talent, develop the scrubs, send players to the NBAfor recognition,compete for conference titles, and makegood to deep runs in theNCAAT.

But the odds of that are crazy slim. Theyjust are due to the nature of the beast. Hell there are about a dozen factors thatwould all have to come together for this to happen.
Terrible odds.

 

[patdog]

Time will tell, but I think they've 17ed up bigtime.</p>

 

[Emanonion]

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[captaindawg]

before this move. It didn't exactly work out too well for them.

 

[patdog]

when there is a change there's a probablity you're going to downgrade rather than upgrade. Only an idiot would fire a coach if he didn't have better than a 50% chance of hiring a better one.

 

[mstateglfr]

Well its not a zero chance. Stans and Co could suddenly fix their constant weaknesses and pull it all together.

Likely?...no. But it isnt a 0 chance.