Danny Manning is in his fifth season at Wake Forest, and this Demon Deacons team looks like his worst yet. That is not the sort of program trajectory that anyone in Winston-Salem had been looking for, I’m guessing.
The Deacs were hoping for a rebound season in 2019 that would be fueled by a promising freshman class, but the trouble with youth is that they’re young. Hey, it’s not their fault, they can’t help it.
The bigger problem is Manning, who is simply not capable of delivering improvement in the areas Wake Forest needs to truly turn things around—namely, on the defensive side.