We also have 10 of our final 23 against top 15 rpi teams. 7 of those are against top 10 rpi.Quote:
Originally Posted by sandjunky
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We also have 10 of our final 23 against top 15 rpi teams. 7 of those are against top 10 rpi.Quote:
Originally Posted by sandjunky
Also, for those that keep saying he won a National Title, blah blah blah. The dude didn't win with his players. He's an average coach and a borderline bad recruiter. I was worried when we hired him because I just looked at his record. It was medium. It was not great. I still feel that McDonnell pushed him on us because he is his best friend. We deserve better.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
We took Lemon because he was our 7th or 8th choice. We got turned down plenty before we got to Lemon
Yep. I mean just off the top of my head I remember Schloss, Tadlock, McDonnell, Corbin, and O'Sullivan. I know there were more but I'm pretty confident all of them got offered the job.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
Well there's some insight into where we find ourselves now. *****Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
And that is going to happen again when we start with big names if we are doing this again in June. If we fire Lemon our next coach is going to be a Top Asst or a HC from a lower P4 or G5Quote:
Originally Posted by EdwardDrayton
It also has nothing to do with our program, Starkville as a town, or anything else other than the fact that college baseball coaches do not have the tendency to job hop like coaches in other sports do. College baseball coaches tend to stay where they are building something. Jim Schlossnagle is the exception, and he was going to take our job in 2018 until he pushed for Cohen to go ahead and announce it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
It has to do with all of that actually.Quote:
Originally Posted by KB21
Schloss used us in contract talks. If he had wanted to be our coach- he would have been. He removed himself from the equation
It literally has nothing to do with any of that except that college baseball coaches are different. Teams have tried to get Dan McDonnell away from Louisville and Brian O'Connor away from Virginia for years, and they haven't left. McDonnell didn't turn us down because of Mississippi State or Starkville. He turned us down because he has zero desire to ever leave Louisville.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
I wouldn?t want to leave there either - Jeff Ruby?s SteakhouseQuote:
Originally Posted by KB21
I'm well aware of how baseball coaches dont move often. But all of those things play a part- especially in this new NIL EraQuote:
Originally Posted by KB21
Cohen completely mishandled that coaching search. We may have gotten Schlossnagle if Cohen didn't run his mouth about who we were going to hire to everyone in baseball.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
In fact I'll go so far as to say we're actually lucky we ended with Lemonis as bad as Cohen botched that situation.
McDonnell also doesn't want to go up against Bianco. Similar to O'Conner not wanting to go up against Manieri. Baseball coaches are different like that. Back in the day Paul Gregory didn't want to play Delta State because he had Boo Ferriss were friends.Quote:
Originally Posted by KB21
Baseball coaches are different in that many of them are OK being somewhere that they are comfortable even if it's somewhere that they can't win a championship.
Agree, and Cohen ran his mouth so much , it was funny reading our media try to say Lemonis fit Cohen's original description of "Multiple CWS appearances" when describing Lemonis being there as an assistant. Yeah, ok.Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
For right now, just getting a winning record against Quad 1 through 3 rated teams would be plus.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34