Pack Insider · Jan 29
Disaster Averted: How Will Wade has navigated complex roster issues to put NC State in ACC Contention
I can’t tell you how many early conversations I had with people about the ‘Red Reckoning’ hype.
Obviously, those preseason conversations were all about agreement. Finally, a coach who would talk the talk! Finally, a coach who embodies the persona State fans have always said they wanted.
But as the season started and NC State was dropping these Top-50 games, those conversations took a different tone.
Some fans wondered, “Was Wade who we thought he was?”
The bravado that once gave them pride suddenly frustrated them. “What happened to the Reckoning?” they asked.
But Will Wade has never been a magician. He wasn’t going to walk into that office and change 42 years of history.