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When you pay a baseball coach almost as much as your football coach, you deserve the misery you're going to get
Lebby and BOC combined are making less than 10 of the 16 SEC football coachesQuote:
Originally Posted by Cooterpoot
Goat is that you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Cooterpoot
Have you not found another team to cheer for yet? Dude. Get over it. If you graduated from State you are smart enough to know the school is not paying the majority of that salary. Baseball Boosters are. The ones paying most of that salary are literally focusing their funding on baseball. Most are more than likely former players.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cooterpoot
Use you contact and influence with the Former State players in the NFL to get them to pony up to fund State football since you and others like to tell State Boosters how to spend their money.
Take your meds and go to bed, grandmaQuote:
Originally Posted by Cooterpoot
$2.9m means we have some money people who are sick of what they've been seeing. And I can't imagine ponying up that much to get an elite HC just to say "increase my NIL? No thanks". Parker is good at his job and likes it here, we might be better off with him than a 1 and done Muscara pit stop on his way to HC. We back in this boys. State baseball is BACK
Just got home from being at the event. It was incredible.
I know this is really hard for a lot of our fans to believe but we might have a really good AD.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
I'm a believer now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
I think he has grown into the job for sure. But in this case, his fund raising expertise seems to be what kick this into high gear! I'm sure a lot of baseball guys reached out to him about the hire but I bet he asked them if they were ready to up the ante to win the hand!Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
It would be interesting to know how that played out.Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptainObvious
I know when hired Cohen as baseball coach some players didn't support him while others did. My guess is that is where the disconnect with players and MSU started with the Polk vs Cohen and Byrne saga.
Cohen had to happen as baseball coach to get our program right in the SEC but there was definitely some damage done and some pain for all involved.
Now that Cohen is completely gone and his old hire is gone this feels like a similar turning point like when Cohen was first hired but the difference is things have come full circle now and it feels like everyone is on board and pulling in the same direction.
And I completely believe understand why people had doubts. We're not used to competence.Quote:
Originally Posted by DownwardDawg
You?re the only one who seems miserable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cooterpoot
No, they just pretty much hated that SOB from the day he walked on campus. It was easy for them to stay away.Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
I never liked him as an ex player, but he was a good player.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coursesuper
Huge shoutout to Zac and the whole AD for last nights event. Cool to see former players, current players, and even UVA alumni all get in on the action. We?re talking a fireworks show for a baseball coach. Well done!
(Please limit Keenum to 60 seconds talking time moving forward. Hearing him ramble on about governors cups was cringey at best)
I have always believed in Zac, hell I was the only one defending him his first 15 months here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
Sometimes MSU alums and fans as a group have a spectacular lack of vison, the whole forest for the trees thing, they look to lash out at the easy target without understanding the entirety of the issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
Amen. Within the first 30 seconds he?s talking beating the ?Ole Miss Rebelssssss?. He should have been yanked immediately. Then he goes on the brag about governors cup, cowbells, and ringing responsibly. Literally no one wants to hear from the President of the university in that moment. He was embarrassing.Quote:
Originally Posted by DawgFromOxford
Well a lot of them wanted him to fire Lemonis 3 months into the job, then they got mad at him for hiring his "friend"(who by the way he had only known for a year) in Lebby, then got mad at him because he didn't fire Lemonis after we were eliminated from a Regional, and finally got mad at him because HE didn't fire Hutzler(although no AD has fired a DC. EVER).Quote:
Originally Posted by Coursesuper
All the while he was raising nearly 20 million in donations, securing the funds for a IPF, getting our boosters organized into what sports they were going to support, bringing us up to date from an NIL perspective, and working to undo all of Cohen's 5 years of F ups, of which there were more than anyone will ever know. Oh and not for nothing, he literally had to hire basically a brand new brain trust for his inner circle because Cohen surrounded himself with a bunch of Poor Oles that thought like he and Templeton. Like I've said before, we had MULTIPLE people making 6 figure salaries that didn't have a basic understanding of the job they were being paid to do.
Damn Keenum was bad last night. For being a politician, he looked completely unprepared and it felt like he was just talking to get applause(such as mentioning OM every 15 seconds and mentioning Parker staying)Quote:
Originally Posted by HaggardDawg
If Sid isn't writing it look out.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
Yeah, it was very cringy.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
Yep, he has OM on the brain. Embarrassing.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
Talked with BOC and Keenum last night mighty impressed WITH BOC Me thinks K has Dementia!Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
I was there. And you're right it was incredible. I will say that when the news of his salary broke that was all people were talking about, however. No wonder we got him.Quote:
Originally Posted by KB21
I couldn't have said it better myself!Quote:
Originally Posted by Coursesuper
At least he didn't mention AJ Brown.Quote:
Originally Posted by HaggardDawg
The thing is if you're going to fire Lemonis you have to make sure you hire someone better. Which we did. It wouldn't have made sense to fire Lemonis and then hire someone risky like an up and comer or assistant that may have had many of the same issues as Lemonis. And to do that we were going to have to pay.Quote:
Originally Posted by Turfdawg67
Sometimes I really don't get MSU fans. I mean do State people think we were going to steal a sitting proven, stud coach from another power conference school and not have him at the top of the baseball pay scale? I agree 2.9 mil is even higher than I thought we would go but you do what you got to do if you want to win bad enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
which fans do you speaketh of?
Cooterpoot and the like. The other board probably has more naysayers on the salary being paid than this one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pancho
Yeah. I thought it was kind of funny when we fired Lemonis and many of them were like "hire Elander now!" I was like what?Quote:
Originally Posted by maroonmania
No way we fire Lemonis and hire someone who basically has more question marks than Lemonis.