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Originally Posted by HoopsDawg

No shot at Pollard. He turned down A&M and Miami. He loves it a Duke and they are putting money into their facilities.

I've got a surprise name for you that would be interested, Brian O'Conner from UVA.

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We're a better job than those two. If he wants to move up in the baseball world we're the move.

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Originally Posted by Homedawg

We might be willing to pay more, maybe, but selmon isn't going to break the bank on a baseball hire. And yes our job is better than bamas, I'll go w that. But it's not a slam dunk. Hes in the sec.

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He makes 900K at Bama. I think we can make a competitive offer that is significantly more and Bama isn't going to break the bank on him either.

By significant I mean we could easily go 1.5 million.

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

If we can't afford a 1.25 million buyout it's more than our baseball program that is 17ed.

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It's not just 1.25. There's Parker and Cheese also.

If we miss a Regional- you have to fire him. The money will probably show up if I had to guess

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

He makes 900K at Bama. I think we can make a competitive offer that is significantly more and Bama isn't going to break the bank on him either.

By significant I mean we could easily go 1.5 million.

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What would he gain by coming to Starkville? He can do the same things at Bama

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Originally Posted by Coach34

It's not just 1.25. There's Parker and Cheese also.

If we miss a Regional- you have to fire him. The money will probably show up if I had to guess

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Right. And Gautreau. Would be fine keeping Parker. I think the actual total would be like 3 million or something like that depending on who stays and goes.

Money won't be an issue.

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Originally Posted by Coach34

It's not just 1.25. There's Parker and Cheese also.

If we miss a Regional- you have to fire him. The money will probably show up if I had to guess

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The money was there in 22 but Lemonis bought himself another year by getting rid of Foxhall. I don't think he has someone that can fall on the sword this time. He can't blame Jake because we're batting .311 as a team with an OBP of .417. You can't really blame Parker with a team ERA of 3.56. I mean is he going to blame Cheese and fire his bestfriend?

Realistic the guy at Troy. He has them in the top 25, and he might have a winning record against SEC Opponents this year. Unrealistic John Cohen. Just keep the AD doors locked.

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

Right. And Gautreau. Would be fine keeping Parker. I think the actual total would be like 3 million or something like that depending on who stays and goes.

Money won't be an issue.

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Just stop with this keeping Parker stuff, if Lemon is let go they are all gone. The next guy will want his people on his staff, he sinks or swims with them, so the buy out will be for all hands if this staff is relived.

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

I would add Pollard from Duke to your list. That's the guy we should want. I absolutely 100% think he would come here too.

Some of our fans seem to have fallen in love with Elander. It's too risky. Good chance he fails here. I think he is ready for a head coaching job but not ours.

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He's added. Probably a safe option. I mean 3 supers in 12 years is not really anything to write home about at a P5 program. I mean I don't think he's never even hosted a regional

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Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve

He's added. Probably a safe option. I mean 3 supers in 12 years is not really anything to write home about at a P5 program. I mean I don't think he's never even hosted a regional

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No offense intended, but you are pretty clueless about baseball if you don't realize that Pollard would be a homerun hire.

But money is an issue in today?s time. Let me break it down real simple for y?all. We can only compete in football and either basketball or baseball. We don?t have the funds needed with the state of college athletes to build all three. We just don?t.

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Originally Posted by HoopsDawg

No offense intended, but you are pretty clueless about baseball if you don't realize that Pollard would be a homerun hire.

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Why would he be a HR hire? Genuinely curious because nothing on his record screams HR hire. Without winning the conference tournament he would've made the NCAA tournament 1 time in the last 4 years and he's a .500 coach in the NCAAT. Like what screams HR hire about that? I'm being serious. I'm not trying to say you're wrong just genuinely curious what y'all see in the guy. That's why I didn't add him to the initial list.

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Originally Posted by Coach34

People use Bo to put out info. People from campus as well as Boosters

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Bo loved Zach, Barbay, and also loves him some Ross Highfill.

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Originally Posted by BankerDog

Bo loved Zach, Barbay, and also loves him some Ross Highfill.

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Interesting that the other people who loved Arnett, Barbay, and love Highfill also reside in Madison Co. I'm sure that's just a coincidence though

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Originally Posted by Coach34

What would he gain by coming to Starkville? He can do the same things at Bama

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One of reasons Lemonis is struggling is we no longer have recruiting advantages in AL, GA, etc. the day those programs started to take baseball seriously-it became a lot harder for us.

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Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve

Interesting that the other people who loved Arnett, Barbay, and love Highfill also reside in Madison Co. I'm sure that's just a coincidence though

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Start thinking about some of our highest paid athletes and what they have in common. I?ll break it down for you: Hines, Highfill, Jordan, Blanton, Hubbard.

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Originally Posted by WinningIsRelentless

But money is an issue in today?s time. Let me break it down real simple for y?all. We can only compete in football and either basketball or baseball. We don?t have the funds needed with the state of college athletes to build all three. We just don?t.

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This. We pour in $5MM per year (that was what was budgeted this year for baseball at least) and only generate $2.0MM gross revenues. So losing $3.5MM per year in baseball. But hey we got attendance records and a nice ball field!

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Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve

He's added. Probably a safe option. I mean 3 supers in 12 years is not really anything to write home about at a P5 program. I mean I don't think he's never even hosted a regional

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Duke hadn't even been to regional since 1961 before he got there.

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Originally Posted by Coach34

What would he gain by coming to Starkville? He can do the same things at Bama

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There is more prestige as far as baseball is concerned at MSU. He won't have to compete with football as much as far as booster support goes at MSU. And we can pay more if we really want him.

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Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve

Why would he be a HR hire? Genuinely curious because nothing on his record screams HR hire. Without winning the conference tournament he would've made the NCAA tournament 1 time in the last 4 years and he's a .500 coach in the NCAAT. Like what screams HR hire about that? I'm being serious. I'm not trying to say you're wrong just genuinely curious what y'all see in the guy. That's why I didn't add him to the initial list.

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You should look him up. He has won at App State and Duke- two essentially impossible places to win at. He has produced MLB players like Marcus Stroman. His staff is really good and has a ton of recruiting connections with scouts and PG.

If you give a guy like that our resources he is going to win big here.