Not to be Captain Obvious but Cann was a disaster hire....let’s hope Cohen gets it right
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+1 and LMBO!
I will say I really liked Pat, but RP was a major problem for Pat. Looked over his shoulder and just wouldn't let the program go and getting in the way. Never could blame Pat for leaving, I think he was good Coach and left alone would have done really good things at Msu.
Does that mean I'm Elite now? Where the hell is my rep points, I mean am I not worthy? LOL!
In the future hopefully I will be able to say more about recruiting and future Dawgs! Maybe in the future I might not be able to read ED, I'm getting to old to really kick someone's ass like I use too!
Unfortunately- baseball recruiting is the hardest of the Big 3. Recruits in baseball these days are committing earlier and getting locked in with coaches. Then you add in that by the end of the season- nearly all of the decent recruits are signed with programs. So anybody we hire- gets nothing to add recruiting-wise for the 2019 season. Our new coach coaches his 1st season with a completely inherited roster. So now he starts recruiting- and so many recruits are already committed to other programs- he has to get the best of the rest. So its going to be until 2020 until our new coach starts getting his recruits into the program and on the field. Cann was really awesome on the recruiting trial- and you see the minimal impact his guys have had this year paired with Cohen's leftovers.
No matter who we hire- its going to be a rebuild
Are you saying that these 3 recruiting classes are basically going to disappear, almost regardless of coach we hire?
In that case. We better sell the new stadium for scrap metal and crushed aggregate material.
This seems like the baseball program got an NCAA death penalty
If Canny doesn't become a dumbass chasing the poon then he is a great hire. Setting up top 5 recruiting classes and in his first year getting to a Super isn't a bad hire. I would guess there isn't anyone that expected Canny to do what he did.
Was Richard Williams a bad hire also since he "retired" for something worse? What would be the time limit on deciding that?
So, the Grisham story that I have understood is that John’s son Ty Grisham wanted to play for MSU in around the 2000-2001 season. The kid was not a great prospect and McMahon did not want to entertain Ty even as a walk-on candidate. Maybe it was more, maybe Grisham wanted Ty on the 35 man-roster.
This made John Grisham very sour with MSU. At the same time, the moribund baseball program at UVA is willing to have Ty on the team. UVA in 2000 almost did not have any program, so why not have Ty on the team.
They accepted Ty as both a walk-on and into the 35-man-roster. In his 4 years at UVA, Ty got 12 at-bats in mop-up duty. Ty is very proud of being a pity case player and has “ball player” status listed in his on-line bio. In fairness to MSU it should read, “my dad paid for me to be a make-believe baseball player in college.”
In gratitude for Ty being on the team. John Grisham gave $3M dollars for a UVA stadium project and injected new life into the UVA program. Ty left UVA baseball in 2003 and Brian O’Conner came to town in 2004. The rest is history.
The punch-line is that Pat McMahan and MSU should have given “Fredo” Grisham a break, it would have kept a very influential alumnus happy.