Wake Forest - taking hits

[tornado]

Head Coach Jeff Bzdelik at Wake - on top of a very BAD year in the ACC - is kinda losing everyone - yet another player bolted today...on top of multiple losses over the past year due to academics, arrests, and early departure....

Yesterday - Starting PG Tony Chenault has announced he's leaving - Wake was already bringing in six new players next season to replace previous losses...

Keep in mind - Wake is just FOUR years but TWO coaches - down the road from having the
ABSOLUTE #1 best recruiting class in the NATION! (2008 )
If you have the BEST recruits - had they kept them - they would have been a Final Four team -but are instead a bottom dweller...

http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-basketball/story/2007-11-14/wake-forest-keeps-intact-elite-recruiting-class?story-topic-NCAAB=NBA

[bradleybraves1]

Is this more an indictment of the "type" of recruits Gaudio brought in? As the ringmaster Gaudio was able to keep them under control (or at least keep their trouble under the radar). Maybe this is the real reason Wake Forest made their change in coaches. They're definitely suffering the fallout now.

[tornado]

Skip Prosser lined up all those super top recruits and Gaudio was hired to be sure they kept their pledge and came to Wake - and they did..
but then they couldn't get along, couldn't win and Gaudio was canned...

Bzdelik now goes 8-24 then all his best players start bolting.....you think he's gonna have a winning program there any time soon?
And lots of people wonder why he was hired?? He had 3 consecutive losing seasons at Colorado and at Air Force - his schedule was so bad it hardly matters if he won.
He's 119-129 over his full career -- Wake will not be patient if he keeps losing...

[bradleybraves1]

Wake will not be patient if he keeps losing...

You are correct tornado. The AD has banked his job and reputation on this hire. They will both be fired within 3 years, IMO.

[tornado]

Yet more hits for Wake - two other players, Carson Derosiers
(7-ft soph center - started half the games was #5 center and #64 player overall in Class of 2010)
& Anthony Fields (6-ft freshman guard - played at the Washington, IL Tournament of Champions in 2010

http://sftofc.org/wherenow.aspx

[bradleybraves1]

Some interesting responses in this fan forum. This is the 8th player to leave under Bzdelik. Seems Gaudio really lost control of this program, as I suspected.

http://www.statefansnationforums.com/topic.php?id=7046