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I'm leaning Bohanon or Deggs. AL just polished that turd of a stadium but it's still AL and they don't care about baseball. Deggs would be all over it and he was on the list the last time. Johnson would be the wildcard. The trump card is McDonnell though. Nobody knows how the issues at UL affect him. I still think it's a major long shot though.
I think many of you are too volatile with your feelings about certain coaches depending on recent seasons. Particularly those that haven’t been at their school for 5-7+ years.
With college baseball recruiting getting earlier and earlier with kids committing in the 8th-9th grade, it’s almost impossible to truly get a great feel for a coaches ability to evaluate and recruit, until 5-7 years after he’s hired and actually has a roster full of his own recruits.
Because of the early recruiting, it takes time for a baseball coach to turn around a program.
It’s isnt like football or basketball where you can have a roster full of your own guy by year 2 or 3.
All this McD and Schossnagle talk has the feel of a mind-game against us MSU fans to really whack us hard with the announcement of Lane Boroughs
I think Kendall Rodgers has heard we will be offering major dollars but that’s doesn’t mean the coaches will take the deal. Or their present employers won’t match.
Four months away from the end of a nightmare season, we sound like Tennessee fans claiming Jon Gruden interest
Anybody who thinks lane would get the job ahead of Butch or mingione just simply doesn't have a clue.
Sounds to me like you are making the case for paying above market value for a proven winner like McDonnell or Schlossnagle. We went for the up-and-comer with Cann, and while on the field he appeared to have the goods, he couldn’t keep his dick in his pants. We are at a point now where can’t gamble on the future of the program, or else we throw away whatever is left of the momentum from the new dude in the wake of the cann aftermath and a lost season. We need someone who is as close to a sure thing as possible. It’s gonna be embarrassing if we spend the $$ to build the best facilities in the country and can’t even make a regional for 3 or 4 years.
Louisville was dumb to hire that guy as the permanent AD. McDonnell doesn’t like him but he did just hire Chris Mack in the sport they really only care about so if they sacrificed McDonnell to get Chris Mack most to all Louisville fans will see that as a win. He’s not a good AD and has never had any experience at any level of being in sports administration. You or I could have hired Chris Mack away from Xavier to Louisville. I still think the timing is right for us to grab McDonnell.
Jon Gruden was making millions working Monday night football, we are tossing around names that actually are coaching baseball. Coaching college baseball at that. Far from Tennessee fans delusion for like the 4th time in the last decade over Gruden.
Remember when South Carolina thought they were getting Kevin O?Sullivan from Florida? We have matched their delusion, and we cannot match their baseball history.
Gruden would have to have taken a pay cut to work twice as much if he took the UT job. That is a little more delusional than MSU fans thinking we might pay someone 10-15% more for the same work load. I doubt we throw enough money at someone like McDonnell that Louisville just doesn't come close to matching it. We might can for someone like O'Connor though because UVA has like 500 fans. UVA's attendance record is a little over 4k so not sure if they would be willing to match $$$ if we wanted him or maybe they do, who knows.