LiveWolvesinUnitards wrote: They had the same complaints with Dino that we had with Sendek. Good, not good enough.

XxPack18xX wrote: The reason why Dino was let go due to him pissing off the higher ups and alumni. It has nothing to do with not winning..he had a real good winning percentage. However, due to them letting him go, they have fallen to the bottom of the tarpit (no pun intended). It sucks. I am from Winston and would like Wake to be competitive.

RowanWolf wrote:

XxPack18xX wrote: The reason why Dino was let go due to him pissing off the higher ups and alumni. It has nothing to do with not winning..he had a real good winning percentage. However, due to them letting him go, they have fallen to the bottom of the tarpit (no pun intended). It sucks. I am from Winston and would like Wake to be competitive.

The rumors at the time were that Dino was let go for off the court issues.

TruthBKnownReturns wrote: I never really hated Wake.  It's kind of like hating a 5 year old for hitting a basketball shot against you in your driveway.  Once in a while, it's going to happen.

Then they beat us far too many times in football over the last 10-12 meetings.  They got too big for their britches, so I'm glad to see them knocked back down where they belong.

We should almost never lose to Wake.  In anything.

I won't ever forget the time our students ran out onto the basketball court after we beat Wake.  I guess State athletics had been so bad for so long that the students just lost their mind.  All I could do was shed a tear like Iron Eyes Cody in that famous commercial from the 70's.  In my mind, I was screaming, "YOU DON'T RUN ON THE COURT AFTER BEATING WAKE!! EVER!!"

But I also saw fans doing "the wave" in Carter-Finley a few times this year against some really awful competition.  All I could do was shake my head.  Hard to believe.

OK, I'm down of my soapbox now. *sigh*

packinseneca wrote: I don't doubt your information...but why has no one hired him since?  He appears to be able to win..at least with someone else's players.  There must be more, something 'darker'...because he has not be hired by anyone else.

cmast wrote:

THEkungfoodude wrote: How do you not fire that AD?

lol. wellman was the 2nd coming around these parts not too long ago!

hunwolf wrote: Dino almost joined Gott's staff.

EastChapelHill04Class wrote:

TruthBKnownReturns wrote: I never really hated Wake.  It's kind of like hating a 5 year old for hitting a basketball shot against you in your driveway.  Once in a while, it's going to happen.

Then they beat us far too many times in football over the last 10-12 meetings.  They got too big for their britches, so I'm glad to see them knocked back down where they belong.

We should almost never lose to Wake.  In anything.

I won't ever forget the time our students ran out onto the basketball court after we beat Wake.  I guess State athletics had been so bad for so long that the students just lost their mind.  All I could do was shed a tear like Iron Eyes Cody in that famous commercial from the 70's.  In my mind, I was screaming, "YOU DON'T RUN ON THE COURT AFTER BEATING WAKE!! EVER!!"

But I also saw fans doing "the wave" in Carter-Finley a few times this year against some really awful competition.  All I could do was shake my head.  Hard to believe.

OK, I'm down of my soapbox now. *sigh*

Damn right

RowanWolf wrote:

XxPack18xX wrote: The reason why Dino was let go due to him pissing off the higher ups and alumni. It has nothing to do with not winning..he had a real good winning percentage. However, due to them letting him go, they have fallen to the bottom of the tarpit (no pun intended). It sucks. I am from Winston and would like Wake to be competitive.

The rumors at the time were that Dino was let go for off the court issues.

CalStabbinsGhost wrote:

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I like Wake, and I hate that Wake is so bad right now, but I love that those jackoffs that used to post on the WF Scout site are having to suffer through this.

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Me too. Pure joy to think of ChrisL's agony.

We are witnessing the fitful process of Wake Forest assuming their rightful position at the bottom of the ACC hierarchy.

redterrors04 wrote:

cmast wrote:

THEkungfoodude wrote: How do you not fire that AD?

lol. wellman was the 2nd coming around these parts not too long ago!

yep I remember many talking very highly of him

TruthBKnownReturns wrote:
We should never lose to Wake.  In anything.

packfan01 wrote:

reciprocity wrote: Can someone refresh my memory?  Why was Gaudio fired?

I'm not sure of the behind-the-scenes reason, but the reason Wellman gave was basically "Gaudio didn't have post-season success" (I think he got bounced in the 1st round of the NCAAs 2-3 times in a row).

Extremely ironic, this.

Steven1974 wrote:

packinseneca wrote: I don't doubt your information...but why has no one hired him since?  He appears to be able to win..at least with someone else's players.  There must be more, something 'darker'...because he has not be hired by anyone else.

Could be that he's happy working at ESPN.

This.

There's no love lost here for WFU, to be sure.

Recently I almost feel sorry for the b-ball team.

Bzdelik (?) is no good.

What they have had are some of the worst losses of the ACC era. I made an extremely painful, but edifying traipse down misery lane to count up more than a dozen games where the bottom fell out. 

These aren’t 15 point losses to Duke or North Carolina. Actually, none were losses to Duke or North Carolina, because Duke and North Carolina should have belted Wake. The Deacons, to date, have yet to really be in a game against a team that finished in the first division of the ACC. Bzdelik is 0-17 against said opponents, and the average margin of defeat has been 18.8 points a game.  And two of those debacles, the meltdown against Iona and the 16-point home no-show against Nebraska, have been inflicted this season.

But disappointing as those two were, they weren’t of the really, really wretched variety like the 74-39 flogging by a Georgia Tech that won all of 13 games all season, or the 76-40 stomping Mark Gottfried, in his first season at N.C. State, administered last season. (That was the game that the Wake players didn’t need to know the offensive plays. Assistant Bobby Lutz of N.C. State spent the whole game telling them, his team and everyone else within earshot where they were going before they got there).

Even with that, the lowest of the low moments, the absolute nadir, had to be 80-55 home shellacking by N.C. State the season before. The Wolfpack finished their season at 15-16 and Sidney Lowe finished his without a job.