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Good evening, Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) sports fans. Just a quick post here – Wake Forest absolutely nailed their men’s basketball coaching hire.
Wake Forest moved very fast on this hire. Just this week, SB Nation Wake Forest Athletics Blog (not associated with the university), Blogger So Dear, dropped a wish list of candidates. Here’s what Blogger So Dear had to say about Steve Forbes:
Steve Forbes is the most realistic option from a monetary standpoint with in my opinion the highest ceiling of the coaches that won’t cost a fortune (i.e. everyone after Beilein and Matta).
And that’s who Wake Forest hired today – and I think Forbes is a good hire.
It’s official!
Welcome to Wake Forest, Steve Forbes! 🎩🏀
MORE: https://t.co/Uue5knypzO#GoDeacs | #ForbesInTheForest pic.twitter.com/m3XAj5OqkG
— Wake Basketball (@WakeMBB) April 30, 2020
Let’s take a look and see what some of others think:
His teams were 130-43 in five seasons at East Tennessee State. https://t.co/4XS6tfkwz2
— David Teel (@ByDavidTeel) April 30, 2020
Couldn’t be happier for @ForbesETSUhoops, named today as the new basketball coach at Wake Forest. He’s one of my favorite guys and this is, in my opinion, a great fit.
— Bob Lutz (@boblutz) April 30, 2020
Wake Forest’s most distinguished basketball alumni — Chris Paul and Tim Duncan — were involved in the school’s head coaching search and participated in Zoom interview calls with potential candidates, multiple sources tell @247Sports. https://t.co/MlAW165cmd
— Evan Daniels (@EvanDaniels) April 30, 2020
So for all those John Currie haters…he just:
1. Fired Manning
2. Said “screw the buyout”
3. Brought in CP3 and Timmy to advise
4. Hired the top mid-major option out thereIN THE MIDDLE OF A GLOBAL PANDEMIC!!!!
— Riley Johnston (@MSD_RaJohnston) April 30, 2020
Steve Forbes is a terrific fit for Wake Forest as an Xs-and-Os coach and as a personality. There’s one wild card to this hire: He’s going to have to change a few things about how he builds a program. https://t.co/N74tx8COOq
— Luke DeCock (@LukeDeCock) April 30, 2020
A big thing in reading all the tweets today is how this hire is perceived by writers/fans of other schools. Pretty much glowing reviews across the board from ACC rivals/fans alike. I am damn excited.
— Riley Johnston (@MSD_RaJohnston) April 30, 2020
All those that were worried that John Currie would just be Ron Wellman 2.0 should rest easy now. It took a year but it looks like he’s going to have essentially aced his first huge test at Wake.
— Through the Forbest (@ForestDeacs) April 30, 2020
Our friend, Riley Johnston, is right. Wake Forest now has Dave Clawson as its football coach – and Steve Forbes as it’s men’s basketball coach. It’s going take a while for Wake Forest men’s basketball to get better again, but the program will improve with Forbes at the helm. That’s quite a tandem in Clawson and Forbes.
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