Nothing on the Wake Forest basketball website yet, but here it is from Wikipedia: The most recent Wake Forest University men’s basketball coach is Steve Forbes, who was hired on April 30, 2020. More on Steve Forbes:Steve Forbes (born March 22, 1965) was an American college basketball head coach for the East Tennessee State men’s basketball team. His Division I experience includes five years at Tennessee, two seasons at Texas A&M, one year at Illinois State, three years at Louisiana Tech, and two years at Idaho…The only Division I head coaching experience for Steve Forbes has been at East Tennessee…
**********Seeing Twitter source tonight/Wednesday, that Wake Forest has offered the basketball job to Steve Forbes, from East Tennessee State University….We will see what comes out of this update….********** (Steve Forbes has been one of Wake’s top candidates.) More on Steve Forbes:Steve Forbes (born March 22, 1965) is an American college basketball head coach for the East Tennessee State men’s basketball team. His Division I experience includes five years at Tennessee, two seasons at Texas A&M, one year at Illinois State, three years at Louisiana Tech, and two years at Idaho…The only Division I head coaching experience for Steve Forbes has…
Will WFU get deaCON’d again? Special to GreensboroSports.com, from Jordan Stowe, Wake Forest Basketball Researcher and Reporter….. With an $18,000,000 buyout, the question is not who will be next at the helm for Wake Forest University Basketball, but who can Wake Forest afford? I will answer that in three separate segments. I will also offer some serious options I have heard around the Deacon forums, groups, and “those in the know”. To answer the first question, we must know WHO put up the $18,000,000. This is important to know because, if Wake Forest University had to foot the bill then…
We kept on getting the Word, that Danny Manning would be returning as the head basketball coach at Wake Forest University…Then this afternoon we heard from Don Tilley, and he said Danny Manning was GONE, we heard from Jordan Stowe earlier this week and he said Wake Forest basketball fans were calling 911, and now we catch this report below from Lauren Walsh, with WXII TV 12 Sports, and this was sent to us in hurry(and not from John Currie), but by way of Twitter and you can read the news for yourself and when you look below….But, first let’s…
Looking at the Danny Manning Numbers at Wake Forest:Is it time to Dial 911???(Jordan Stowe in the Know) Special to GreensboroSports.com, from Jordan Stowe, Wake Forest Basketball Researcher….. When you look at the current affairs that is plaguing Wake Forest University Basketball it is easy to see why they are struggling, and where the blame should be placed. Let us look together at some quick facts about Danny Manning first, before we dive into this wormhole. Danny Manning was recruited by Hall Of Fame coach, Larry Brown. Larry Brown was in his second year at Kansas University. He played all…
from Wikipedia on coach Carl Tacy: Carl Tacy (born 1933 – died April 2, 2020) was a former college basketball coach at Wake Forest, a university in North Carolina, USA. He served as the head coach from 1972 to 1985 where he compiled a 222-149 record, the second winningest record at that time. from the Wake Forest Athletics Hall of Fame page on Carl Tacy: Carl Tacy was a basketball coach who further extended and added to the rich tradition of the Wake Forest program. “Gentleman Carl,” as Tacy had become known during his career, compiled a 222-149 record at…
When Wake CANS THE MANN by Jordan Stowe With all the cancellations and the sports world upside down, it leaves me pondering what’s next for a Wake Forest Basketball program that desperately needs to right the ship before it gets lost forever. I have compiled a list of who I think would be top candidates for when Wake decides to CAN THE MANN. First up: Shaka Smart, Texas Longhorns: Shaka Smart is a young promising prodigy head coach from Virginia Commonwealth University. Smart was fresh off of a miracle 2011 Final Four run when he joined the Texas staff in…
from www.espn.com: Wake Forest assistant men’s basketball coach Jamill Jones has been arrested and charged with third-degree assault in connection with the death of a 35-year-old Florida man who was in New York City for a wedding. Jones turned himself into police Thursday afternoon and was arraigned Thursday night at Queens County Criminal Court. Jones was released on his own recognizance and was ordered to return to court Oct. 2. Read much more from ESPN on this matter when you CLICK HERE…A must read for those who want to know… More from the WS Journal and Jenny Drabble:www.journalnow.com A Wake…
Danny Manning is the new head basketball coach for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons…. ‘The Manning’ has landed and he has landed back in area where he grew up…. Long before there was ‘Danny and Miracles’ at Kansas, where he led the Jayhawks to the 1988 NCAA Championship, Danny lived in an apartment complex over off of Lawndale Drive, just about 3 miles from where I am sitting right now…. Danny led the Page Pirates to the 1983 NCHSAA 4-A title in his junior year on Alma Pinnix Drive in Greensboro and then left out for Lawrence, Kansas…. His dad…
Heard this on the Dave Glenn Show today and this is a new name on the list of those that we have been hearing here….. Danny Manning(Page HS/Kansas), the current men’s basketball coach at Tulsa, is now being mentioned as candidate for Wake Forest basketball job….. Danny Manning headed back to the Triad and heading into the ACC coaching ranks? Steve Wojciechowski(Duke) took the Marquette job today…..
Jeff Bzdelik out/resigns at Wake Forest We have been saying all week long that a resignation was coming and here it is first up from Dave Glenn and his staff at www.accsports.com….Again, we had been saying and reporting this all week long and now Dave/David Glenn and his crew have confirmed it and Dave is saying that Ben Howland at UCLA would be a ‘Top Candidate’…. The news from Dave and his crews….. Jeff Bzdelik has resigned as Wake Forest’s head coach, multiple sources confirmed to David Glenn on Thursday afternoon. from Dan Collins at the Winston-Salem Journal: The announcement…
Heard just a small part of the Dave Glenn Show today and he was reporting that he was gettig the word that something was going to happen in Wiston-Salem today with Wake Forest and the Jeff Bzdelik situation….By listening to Dave Glenn, he lends the impression that Bzdelik should be gone…. It has been hard to get into Dave Glenn’s ACCSports.com site today…They have a post up there from Jay Bilas that has pushed a lot of buttons and it seems this one from Bilas is a HOT one… We will keep an ear to ground and if you read…
Wake Forest Basketball Update for Wednesday March 19, 2014: Dan Collins from the Winston-Salem Journal had an article today that said it was business as usual for coach Jeff Bzdelik, but that he was under a lot of pressure….Another tip coming in today saying there is a stir/movment that there will be a press conference on Thursday and the time they put out there was at 1pm….We will keep an eye out for this one and look and see if anything transpires and it has been a busy week with news that was to come out on Tuesday and John…
There has been a Wake Forest University Press Conference scheduled for tomorrow at Bridger Field House to discuss the future of the Demon Deacons’ basketball program. 11am is the start time that we have been told. There has been some speculation that current Wake Forest coach Jeff Bzdelik will offer up his resignation at this time…. WFU Atheltic Director Ron Wellman has been very busy directing the NCAA Basketball Tournament process, as he is the current NCAA Basketball chairman of the tourmanet selection committee, but all of this has not overwhelmed Wellman and he should be ready to establish and…
Finals from the opening game of the ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Wake Forest 81 Notre Dame 69 Miami 57 Virginia Tech 53 Brian and Ryan Stratton from Greensboro and from the Forest Valley outdoor basketball court are after a ripe target again, as they call out for the firing of Wake Forest Demon Deacons’ basketball coach Jeff Bzdelik….The Stratton Brothers will keep coming at you, I remember them from a wealth of Sundays at that outdoor court and they won’t quit until they have left their mark and they have: from the Winston-Salem Journal at www.journalnow.com: The group that funded…
Courtesy of Jamey Givens assistant coach, women’s basketball, Wake Forest University: The Wake Forest women’s basketball team will host a free Skills Clinic after its exhibition game on Saturday, Nov. 2 against Wingate . The game begins at 1 p.m at the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Admission to the game is FREE, and the clinic is open to any first through eighth grade girl/boy who attends the game. Participants will learn team and individual skills from the coaches and players themselves, and will also have the opportunity to take photos and receive autographs from the players. The clinic will…
Isaac Haas 7-2, 270 center from Piedmont, Alabama and Hokes Bluff High School, a member of the Class of 2014, committed to attend Wake Forest on Sunday September 1…. That is the word coming in from Jim Young at ACC Sports.com, ESPN recruiting and 24/7 Sports among others that are now reporting this landing of the ‘Big Man’ by Wake Forest….Have seen Haas listed on some charts at 7’0, some have him at 7’1 and the most recent listings show him at 7’2 and he may still be growing, who knows….Wake has made out good with other Haas athletes in…
Hall of Famer will now have a seat on the Demon Deacon bench and he will join another Wake Forest basketball great, Rusty LaRue, as Wake looks to the past to build, to build their future…… from www.wakeforestsports.com: WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Wake Forest has elevated Hall of Famer and former Demon Deacon All-American Randolph Childress to assistant coach, as announced by head coach Jeff Bzdelik on Tuesday. Childress spent the past season as the program’s Director of Player Development. He will now move into an on-court role as one of Bzdelik’s three assistant coaches. “I’m excited to have Randolph move…
Dear Ron Wellman, I was going to renew season football tickets and donate to the Deacon club this year but I am so disgusted with the current state of the basketball program that I decided against it. Jeff Bzdelik has absolutely no ability to win away from the Joel. His conference road record in three years at Wake is 1-25. That’s a 4% winning percentage!! I will say that again, 4%!!! How could we have predicted this? Oh wait, we could have. Before coming to Wake, Jeff Bzdelik won only 1 conference road game in his three years at Colorado.…