Yeah, I don't even consider him a candidate.
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I've heard from a former player that Tim Corbin has expressed interest in the job. I'm not saying this is who we are after or who it will be. I was told this personally a few weeks ago.
Cohen said that fans would be "happy" and that our very experienced coach has been to Omaha on multiple occasions
To me that's McDonnell, 4 times in Omaha
Tadlock would make me happy but has only been to Omaha twice. "Twice" is a "multiple" of once but usually people say "twice" when the answer is "2 times"
If ANYBODY would not be ecstatic with a Tim Tadlock hire, then they are not reasonable. That would be like LSU football team missing on saban but getting Meyer or Patterson... it is an amazing hire.
Here's how I've started to look at it-
Is the coach the right fit for our job? Vic Schaefer was 80-110 before he came here, but he has excelled because he was the right man for the job. So whoever we hire, I hope he is the right guy for this job, no matter his previous record. And I'm going to put my trust in John Cohen on making the right hire for this program!
I been hopping he would be the guy since I read the coaching list per Genes page. FINGERS CROSSED!!!!
I did not know that Vic had a losing record when we hired him.
The one thing about Cohen that I like and feel comfortable about is he has a good idea of what it takes to get to Omaha and what the current trends are to build a program to that level. That's why he went after a guy with Cannizaro's background in the first place when the easy thing to do would have been to hire Henderson, Butch, or Mingione.
If I had to bet I would guess that we are hiring Tadlock. If it's not him I would guess it would be McDonnell.
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Between these three-four choices, you can’t go wrong: Jim Schlossnagle, Dan McDonnell, Tim Tadlock, or Tim Corbin. All four of those coaches IMO are ones who can win a national championship at MSU and are all four in the top ten coaches in college baseball today. I’d be ecstatic for any of those four.
I'd say Texas Tech's history is pretty close to Louisville as far as what the programs were when both took over. They had a good run for them in the mid 90's under Larry Hays but they didn't make it any further than a regional under him and they had an eight year postseason drought before Tadlock took over- and while that run makes their history better than Louisville's it's still not that impressive. And then only two years after they hired Tadlock they made it to Omaha. Tech was a losing team when Tadlock took over.