Game Recap in Haiku: Tigers Trounce Deacs, 78-58
by SamuraiFoochs on Feb 11, 2012 6:37 PM EST
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Fire Bzdelik
I defended Jeff Bzdelik, even passionately, for a long time. This is absolutely inexcusable. We've gone from a storied program to a national joke in less than two years. I don't think it's worth firing Ron Wellman if he doesn't buy Bzdelik out, but that's the extent of my mercy. Wellman has earned my good graces enough to allow this contract to expire, but if he extends Coach Bzdelik's contract, it's time to blow up the athletic department. Mind you, I'm not saying I don't want Wellman to execute a buyout, but I also could see it as him taking his time in a coaching search so as to avoid another panicked hire.
My sympathies go out to the players, the fans, even the assistant coaches. My sympathies for Jeff Bzdelik extend insofar as I never wish failure on anyone, and Bzdelik seems like a good man who wants to help, but he is failing in every regard, and frequently throwing his young players under the bus in the process. And that's not okay. That's not okay at all.
In protest, I will not have any sort of sign off.
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I left the game early today for the first time in 10 years
Just completely unacceptable. Terrible coaching, terrible effort, terrible everything.
Its irreconcilable now…Coach Bzdelik has to go. There’s just no way to fix all of this and get the fans back in a timely fashion.
Wake Forest '12
Mother So Dear
by RAJohnston on Feb 11, 2012 6:44 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
I'll have a piece up tonight about Bzdelik compared to other new-ish coaches (Donahue, Brownell, Bennett)...
But yeah. Not good at all.
And you can’t count syllables either, so at least I’m in good company.
That's absolutely 5-7-5 good sir!
Well, if you really emphasize Fire.
Like FI-YAH!
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by SamuraiFoochs on Feb 11, 2012 7:17 PM EST up reply actions
lol i agree
Go Clippers, proxy until we kick the bum out
by Grand Tanyon Sturtze on Feb 11, 2012 8:18 PM EST up reply actions
Heck yeah.
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by SamuraiFoochs on Feb 11, 2012 8:23 PM EST up reply actions
I actually watched the Clippers play recently
And man, they are an absolute BLAST to watch!! It’s like Wake when CP3 and Skip were around and we’d pull off clutch win after clutch win. CP3 just takes/took over the game in the 4th quarter. I feel really lucky to have witnessed such a special thing. I don’t know any other way to describe it but it’s like he just wills it to happen.
It’s especially heartening to hear the pre-game announcer call out, “From Wake Forest University, Chriiisssss Paulllll!!!”
Go proxy Wake Forest team!
by Grand Tanyon Sturtze on Feb 11, 2012 8:55 PM EST up reply actions
Astonishing how he throws the players under the bus like clockwork
Two different media observers note:
“the Tigers went on a 40-15 run in a ten minute period of play that spanned the two halves”, and “The Demon Deacons made just six field goals in the second half.”
Bzdelik responds to such observations generally:
“Obviously, we have some limitations on this team … It takes an extremely mentally tough person to persevere through some tough, rough difficult times coupled with some limitations.”
It’s unbelievable that he takes no or as little personal responsibility as he can, despite his terrible career record and the fact that our team hasn’t been remotely competitive for almost every one of its losses during his 3-24 ACC record at WF.
I wish someone at a post-game press conference would just ask him to elaborate more on his accountability for being 3-24, or ask him to explain how his career record suggests that he can coach at Wake Forest, and what these things say about the quality of coaching our team is receiving.
by Grand Tanyon Sturtze on Feb 11, 2012 8:39 PM EST reply actions
Not to be redundant but
like SF said alluded to in the posting, does Bzdelik realize how he makes the players feel when they uncompetitively lose almost every one of their conference games by 10, 15, 20 points, and he says to the world “It’s the guards’ fault, they didn’t rebound”, “It’s the forwards/centers’ fault, they didn’t play defense with enough energy”, “It’s the whole team’s fault for not being as excited to come to play as I am”, “It’s this team’s fault, they’re limited and don’t have enough confidence/resilience”, etc.?
I myself don’t like the players we’ve been recruiting at all on a talent level (don’t think that they’re a step up from, or light-years close to, what we were nailing before), but to have the gall to deflect responsibility when you’re the coach, especially a coach with an ACC record, with a career record, like this, without any regard for such deflections’ implication on the team/players, is professionally unacceptable.
by Grand Tanyon Sturtze on Feb 11, 2012 8:49 PM EST reply actions
+a million.
Look, I’m not expecting anybody to think that our current players are incredible or anything, but they seem like genuinely good kids and I for one believe they’re trying, at least more often than not. I feel bad for them because they wanted to be Deacons. They’re spending their eligibility to be here with us, to play for us (“us” meaning the fanbase, alumni, etc. of which I am one of both) and they’re probably more miserable than any of us.
And yet there’s no accountability or efforts to change things for their benefit from the man who is supposed to be TEACHING them.
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by SamuraiFoochs on Feb 12, 2012 1:34 AM EST up reply actions
In my opinion...
… of all the complaints against Bzdelik, this is the most serious (and I agree with that it’s concerning).
The second most serious (although it pales in comparison) is that we have poor personnel to match the schemes that Bzdelik wants to play, yet he’s pretty stubbornly stuck to it.
If he gets fired this spring, these are the reasons why I would find it acceptable. If Wellman solely cites the win-loss record, then that’s an unacceptable reason (at least by itself).
Absolutely this.
The win/loss record isn’t what made me switch sides so to speak. It’s not even getting blown out. It’s the willingness to blame 18-21 year old kids while simultaneously taking no responsibility combined with the complete LACK of willingness to change in any way.
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by SamuraiFoochs on Feb 12, 2012 2:57 AM EST up reply actions
You and I are on the same page here.
Roy’s best aspect as a coach (even better than his recruiting) is his steadfast belief that players win games and coaches lose games. Even if it’s not 100% true, it’s an excellent way of diverting pressure (while still giving praise) off of his kids.
It’s also pretty much the opposite of what Bzdelik does.
Bzdelik apparently said that the team has limitations, lacked mental toughness, and lacked energy at LEAST *5* times
This post-game interview makes this even more infuriating. I thought about not linking because of everything, but then figured it’s better than reading quotes from after the game. Post-game Press Conference with Bzdelik
by Grand Tanyon Sturtze on Feb 12, 2012 11:12 AM EST up reply actions
BuzzWait no longer...
I have to say that after defending Bzdelik for the last season and a half, I have finally had that “come to jesus” moment during the game when Bzdelik is yelling at one of our players and the Tigers are up by 18 and I thought wow he has no clue what to do to stop the slaughter except continue playing horrible defense and an offensive set with no clear objective except outside shots…
BuzzOut and lets just fricken do it now… Put Battle as interim as he is most likely out of here at the end of the season, and get a real search going… dangle some serious money, buy a posh place on Kent Drive for the coach’s pad, promise to schedule overseas trips to resort islands for tournaments and lets stop the bleeding… GTS is right about our talent level, so what do we really have to lose if we lose a couple of the new recruits – it would be a good trade to get rid of Bzdelik.
Bah, lets see the University call about this year’s pledge of $…
Hey guys!
The ladies won at NC State today! First time in 7 years!
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Hopefully RAJ will give us a recap.
That’s a huge win.
Bah da da da da da da da, Go Deacs.
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