Wake Forest Hires Danny Manning As Head Coach

It's all over Twitter and OSG sources have confirmed that Danny Manning will be announced as the
new head coach at Wake Forest.

WF has hired Danny Manning. Announcement from WF later this morning.
— David Glenn Show (@DavidGlennShow) April 4, 2014

Wake Forest has hired Tulsa coach Danny Manning, sources told ESPN. Story coming.
— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanESPN) April 4, 2014

Report: Wake Forest hires Danny Manning http://t.co/e6jHhP3XWJ
— WRALSportsFan (@WRALSportsFan) April 4, 2014

Danny Manning

Manning returns to his North Carolina roots.  He was raised in Greensboro, North Carolina and played high school basketball at Page High School before moving to Lawrence, Kansas for his senior year after his father joined Larry Brown's staff at Kansas.

Their seems to be mixed reactions among the Wake Forest fan base.  Around college basketball circles Manning has earned a reputation as one of it not the best with coaching bigs.

Manning has been mentored by Bill Self and when he had a opportunity to become a head coach enjoyed some success at Tulsa.

There's no doubt that name recognition alone makes this hire front page news however the Wake Forest fan base has had to endured some really tough times and Manning will have some healing to do.

This is a great hire for Wake Forest.  Manning was around ACC basketball as a youth and has an idea what it takes to win in that league.

Manning played for Larry Brown, a Carolina alum.  He won a national championship as a player in 1988and was on Bill Self's KU staff when the Jayhawks won the NCAA title in 2008.

Report: Danny Manning to coach Tulsa a "Done Deal"

((ht: cbssports.com))

Intrepid CBSSports.com college hoops reporter Gary Parrish reports former NBA star, former Kansas grad and current Kansas assistant Danny Manning is going to be the new head coach at Tulsa. Manning will replace Doug Wojick who was fired.

Believe it or not, Manning has been an assistant at his alma mater since 2007 and his stature in the field has grown incrementally.

The original report from Mr. Parrish is RIGHT HERE

Manning still has a little piece of business to take care of as his Jayhawks arrive in New Orleans for this weekends Final Four. Based on Mr. Parrish's report and the weekends activity, we are guessing the "Official" presser won't be held until early next week.

And yes, he's going to be one of the tallest head coaches in the NCAA (just wanted to throw that in there).

 Here's some video of Manning in his heyday, leading Kansas to the 1988 NCAA Championship. (**--note--** look how young Larry Brown looks here)