Tonight Will Wrap Up The Chris Lemonis Era

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Originally Posted by StateDawg44

I've never really understood this. Why would Schloss need us to announce it? I get that TCU may have been pressing him but why couldn't he just tell them behind closed doors until we finished?

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Because they wanted an official announcement that he was leaving and he wanted it announced. He overplayed his hand and then Cohen bailed him out and overplayed our hand by trying to play hardball and we ended up with Chris Lemonis.

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

It absolutely took away our leverage to hire Schlossnagle. No reason to put it out there publicly at all. Schlossnagle may have been our coach if it wasn't the worst kept secret in baseball.

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That had nothing to do with Schloss not getting the job.

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Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve

Because they wanted an official announcement that he was leaving and he wanted it announced. He overplayed his hand and then Cohen bailed him out and overplayed our hand by trying to play hardball and we ended up with Chris Lemonis.

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I remember hearing from some people that Schloss was in Omaha and wanting to talk with Cohen, and the Cohen was being an arrogant prick.

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Originally Posted by StateDawg44

I've never really understood this. Why would Schloss need us to announce it? I get that TCU may have been pressing him but why couldn't he just tell them behind closed doors until we finished?

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Exactly. If Schloss wanted to be our HC- he would have been. All this Cohen blame is BS

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Originally Posted by Santiago

I remember hearing from some people that Schloss was in Omaha and wanting to talk with Cohen, and the Cohen was being an arrogant prick.

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Schloss was in Omaha. I saw him. He was in our team hotel on Sunday and Monday of those first two days. Again, I saw him. Now, could he have just been there for the World Series? Yea. But Cohen being an arrogant prick and refusing to meet with him again is a lot more believable and I have heard it from a lot more people. There are probably only 10-12 people that truly know and they will never tell.

We now have an AD, thanks to Keenum's decision of hires, that does not actually have AD experience in making hires, other than football.
Nothing against Selmon. We are an SEC program and our president hired someone without experience.

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Originally Posted by Santiago

I remember hearing from some people that Schloss was in Omaha and wanting to talk with Cohen, and the Cohen was being an arrogant prick.

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So he was just being himself?***

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Originally Posted by Cooterpoot

That had nothing to do with Schloss not getting the job.

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It didn't help anything.

At the very least it's unprofessional at best to do that before you hire someone.

The other thing is if you don't deliver the guy you promised on the radio you look like a clown and incompetent. Which is exactly what happened.

You're also telling other candidates that they aren't our first choice. Whether they know it or not you don't come out and say it.

I still say this is a primary reason for why Cohen left. Cann was a risky hire, but quickly looked like a great hire. That 2017 team is one of my all-time favorties.

Then, it all blew up. Cohen looked like a fool and had to settle for Lemonis, despite having the entire 2018 season to work on a great hire.

After the NC, I bet Cohen could see that the baseball program was about to go south and knew that he wouldn't survive two botched baseball hires.

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Originally Posted by bulldogcountry1

I still say this is a primary reason for why Cohen left. Cann was a risky hire, but quickly looked like a great hire. That 2017 team is one of my all-time favorties.

Then, it all blew up. Cohen looked like a fool and had to settle for Lemonis, despite having the entire 2018 season to work on a great hire.

After the NC, I bet Cohen could see that the baseball program was about to go south and knew that he wouldn't survive two botched baseball hires.

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No. Cohen realized that Charlie Winfield exposed him and his crony Lee Van Horn for trying to rig NIL to only help baseball when they first started. He would have been fired within a year.