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You evidently missed the tweet by Cohen last night that said "if Vic Schaefer ever leaves MSU it won't be because of money"
Exactly. Plus we need room for predicted upward mobility. If Moorhead goes 10-2 and wins the Sugar Bowl he will get a raise- and if we're already paying him what we offered Dan which I'm guessing would have been in the 5-6 million range we would be getting close into Nick Saban range before too long salary wise. That's not in the best interests of MSU unless we actually have an elite Chip Kelly/Urban Meyer type as our coach.
Here's a crazy thought- what happens if we hire Schlossnagle who I believe coached at Tulane when Gautreau was there? I think there would be a VERY good chance that he would keep Gautreau on as hitting coach while bringing in Saarloos as the pitching coach.
If I'm Cohen I open up the wallet and make it happen.
I am rooting for Henderson to win 50 games this year just to watch Todd go all in on him. I love underdogs.
Even with McD, why not keep the bright young coach and Henderson that maintain continuity with a solid program?
It?s not like MSU is a losing program, recruiting poorly, or un-ranked nationally
Hell, until recently we thought Cannizzaro would take us to National Championship glory. Brent Rooker talked glowingly of Cann, that?s significant as he is a gold-plated true Bulldog Why endorse a coach so heavily as you walk out the door, already drafted, loved by your fans if you did not really mean it.
Here's the difference between us and Texas: While Texas has a great baseball history that is better than ours no question about it baseball is not THE sport there and never will be. They're also in the same conference as TCU and I'm not sure how much that would affect things between us and Schlossnagle but we don't play TCU very often. We also are building a better facility which would be ready in year one for Schlossnagle and we are going to likely be in better shape than Texas was when Garrido left.
I would be fine with Tadlock. And a number of other coaches.
It's going to take Henderson winning the National Championship this year for me to think that we should bring him back as head coach. I'm being serious. I'm fine with him as a pitching coach. Fine with him as an interim coach. Bringing him back as THE head coach I feel very strongly that it would be a mistake almost as bad as bringing Polk back.
Maybe McD would keep Gautreau and Henderson but more than likely he'd want to bring in his own guys. It'd be great, if whoever we hire would keep them both. That is if both want to stay.
As far as Rooker talking glowingly of Cann, he meant it but that was when Cann gave a shit. I'm thinking things went down hill after the season ended. Cann had more time on his hands, was settled in and comfortable with his surroundings and started taking what he had for granted.
Because if you can bring in an elite head coach he probably also has an elite staff that he has worked with that know him.
Like hypothetically- if we hired Tim Corbin you absolutely let him bring Scott Brown and Mike Baxter with him and let them do their thing. Corbin may just be a CEO- but if that's the case you let him bring his top bosses with him that make his system work.
If we are relegated to hiring either a current assistant or some young up and comer then we can't hire any better in baseball than we do football. I mean if we are really a Top 10 job in college baseball then we should certainly be able to hire a Top 30 sitting HC with a track record. I realize that Cohen did not do that last time but I think that was just because he was enamored with AC along with the bad timing of hiring after fall practice.
Well, if there is one thing Cohen knows how to do it's hire a good baseball coach. His coaching tree is pretty much a who's who of SEC coaches.
I do think if the timing were different we may not have hired Cann. I have heard that Cohen wanted and reached out to Corbin first and he turned down our job so I'm not sure how enamored he was versus it just being a situation where Cann was the best he could get given the timing of everything.
We don’t want Henderson as the head guy beyond this year. Recruiting would plummet, as would wins. Henderson’s former players don’t give glowing reviews as a majority. Let’s just enjoy the fact that we have a solid interim coach, be glad our season nor program is ruined, and look forward to the big time hire Cohen will make after the year. It will not be Henderson barring a miraculous season, nor should it be.
Four years would be way too long. To me, it would be sad because we have come so far since the Ron Polk II era and we are finally back at the point where we were at worst and finally at the point where we are about to springboard to the next level. It would be a step back. Not as big as Polk II but probably a four year step back because Henderson doesn't have the following that Polk had.
At this point I'm not really worried about it happening to be honest with you. Butch, Mingione, and Bohannon would have to turn the job down before it got to Henderson. Maybe even Lane Burroughs too.
It's going to be interesting to me- this upcoming weekend we play in a tournament where Vanderbilt and Kentucky just so happen to be playing as well. And then Vanderbilt comes to Starkville for the first SEC weekend a couple of weeks after that. If I'm Cohen I might go after Corbin pretty hard in that span of three weeks. (Look at the team we have and look at the facilities and fans we have that you don't at Vandy. We'll help take care of the scholarships. You leave the whistler in Nashville and we'll keep Gene and his radar gun under control. Oh, here's two million dollars.) Hopefully some of our major cigar boys are going to have an alumni meeting in Hoston the next couple of weekend.