O?Connor NOT Bringing UVA Pitching Coach? Muscara??

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Originally Posted by Hot Rock

You have your doubts over the best possible hires we could make? Of course you do. This is the biggest blockbuster hire that anyone at Mississippi State has ever made in any sport. Nothing compares and you hating, typical.

Sure, it can fail but so could any other hire and I trust O'Connor to not only pick the best Pitching coach available today, I expect he will do whatever it takes to make sure we have the best we can get for the duration he is our HC.

Bottom Line: This is the best group of coaches I have ever seen headed to Starkville in any sport and of that I have no doubt. Sure, others have come here and done well but this group are the most accomplished and that is not close. Let's support them please.

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Everyone hopes they do well. He was simply showing Parker's numbers were basically the same as Muscara the last couple of years, geez.

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Originally Posted by Hot Rock

You have your doubts over the best possible hires we could make? Of course you do. This is the biggest blockbuster hire that anyone at Mississippi State has ever made in any sport. Nothing compares and you hating, typical.

Sure, it can fail but so could any other hire and I trust O'Connor to not only pick the best Pitching coach available today, I expect he will do whatever it takes to make sure we have the best we can get for the duration he is our HC.

Bottom Line: This is the best group of coaches I have ever seen headed to Starkville in any sport and of that I have no doubt. Sure, others have come here and done well but this group are the most accomplished and that is not close. Let's support them please.

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Yes I have concerns and yes I will support them fully. You can have reservations and still support. I had reservations about every candidate mentioned because there is no failsafe candidate. Because no matter how long you have done it, this conference is a different animal. There is only one Tony Vitello and he is in this conference. There is only one Jay Johnson and he is in this conference. There is only one Tim Corbin and he is in this conference. There are 8 current coaches that have a national championship on their resume. 6 of them reside in this conference, John Savage and Lemonis are the only two to not.

Do I think O'Connor will succeed here? Yes. History tells me he will. But am I confident he will have the same or greater success than he had at Virginia? No. Because this conference is hard as hell to win in and if you've never been in it 24-7-365 you don't know that.

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

I think Muscara will do well with the portal. The thing about Virginia when you watch them is they really don't ever seem to have a lot of holes in their lineup. So some of it might be from recruiting and developing really well.

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Do you know how jealous I was of Florida State for having all 3 OFers capable of playing CF while also being an offensive threat at the plate? And nothing against Lucas and Gatlin, but the ACC POY was found in FSU's SS (oh to have offensive pop and defensive wizardry in the middle infield). Not to mention a backstop capable of keeping the baserunner honest while also being adept with the bat.

I'm looking forward to seeing how BOC's recruiting can once again make us complete both defensively and offensively.