The more names that are mentioned ..

..for baseball coach the more excited I get! There is literally an exciting aspect to every single one of them. Elander is gonna be an absolute star. You can?t pass on OConner if he wants it. Butch has super low buyout. No way I pay a big buyout for mingione. He?d be one of the last on my list personally. But even he has his positives. Vaughn would be low but he has some positives as well. But man everyone else mentioned is at minimum a homerun. There are a couple mentioned that are going to be grand slams if we can get em.

I don't know that we will go hard after Butch and I have a feeling if we did Cohen would do whatever it took to keep him.

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

I don't know that we will go hard after Butch and I have a feeling if we did Cohen would do whatever it took to keep him.

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Then we should 100% force him to pay up to keep Butch. Same as we should force Georgia to increase what they are paying Wes Johnson a year after they gave him a new contract.

I just don’t get the love for Mingione and Butch. I would rather have Elander or Coggin before either.

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I just don’t get the love for Mingione and Butch. I would rather have Elander or Coggin before either.

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I?m agree.

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I just don’t get the love for Mingione and Butch. I would rather have Elander or Coggin before either.

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I get it. Their records do not stand out in the SEC. Mingione has won 47.8% of his SEC games to this point. That's actually better than Cohen's record at Kentucky, which was 45.4% of his games. Gary Henderson was at 43.8%.

However, Butch has gotten Auburn to Omaha twice during his tenure, and it had been years since Auburn made the Omaha field prior to Butch. Nick is also the coach that took Kentucky to its first CWS. The general feeling by some is that they would do even better at Mississippi State because of how we fund baseball vs those two programs.

I'll add this. Those of you/us who want the high energy coach with an edge, you will have a hard time finding one who has more energy and coaches with more of an edge than Nick Mingione. Now, I do have some questions about him though, and I do wonder how much of his recent success at Kentucky is actually due to Will Coggin's ability to evaluate talent.

coggin and Amaratti sure did aid Minge

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Then we should 100% force him to pay up to keep Butch. Same as we should force Georgia to increase what they are paying Wes Johnson a year after they gave him a new contract.

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Yeah, let's do that. All that does is drive up what's it's going to cost us to pay a coach.........

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I get it. Their records do not stand out in the SEC. Mingione has won 47.8% of his SEC games to this point. That's actually better than Cohen's record at Kentucky, which was 45.4% of his games. Gary Henderson was at 43.8%.

However, Butch has gotten Auburn to Omaha twice during his tenure, and it had been years since Auburn made the Omaha field prior to Butch. Nick is also the coach that took Kentucky to its first CWS. The general feeling by some is that they would do even better at Mississippi State because of how we fund baseball vs those two programs.

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Both Auburn and Kentucky have some really good looking true Freshmen playing everyday. Is it because of Butch and Nick great recruiting or were they destined to play at Auburn and Lexington? I like to look at where the young guys that are very talented come from to see if they are choosing based on best offer or they have their pick and choose. Example: Duke and Wake not previously known for baseball all of a sudden recruits at same level as NC and Virginia. Louisville wasn't all that until McDonnell. Some of the directional Carolina teams have been fairly successful at baseball over the years based on such a hotbed in that triad of NC/SC/East GA.

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I just don’t get the love for Mingione and Butch. I would rather have Elander or Coggin before either.

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Me either. If you have ever watched UK play in person, you see all the bush league things he does to try to get some advantage. On top of that, they bunt. A lot. It?s no accident they have 50 fans at a home game.

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Me either. If you have ever watched UK play in person, you see all the bush league things he does to try to get some advantage. On top of that, they bunt. A lot. It?s no accident they have 50 fans at a home game.

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Bush League is the perfect description of that guy.

Well, truth be known, they?ve always had 50 fans at games.
Last year UK won like 22 sec games and went to Omaha

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Bush League is the perfect description of that guy.

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hiring a Clown would be dumb

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Well, truth be known, they?ve always had 50 fans at games.
Last year UK won like 22 sec games and went to Omaha

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They also have fewer wins than us this year and we fired our HC

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coggin and Amaratti sure did aid Minge

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Yea I wouldn’t touch Minge. His record with and without those 2 is alarmingly different.

Clown Show 0-2 in StarkVegas so far

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I'll add this. Those of you/us who want the high energy coach with an edge, you will have a hard time finding one who has more energy and coaches with more of an edge than Nick Mingione. Now, I do have some questions about him though, and I do wonder how much of his recent success at Kentucky is actually due to Will Coggin's ability to evaluate talent.

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Guess you loved bunting the dh in the 4 hole w runner on second. Then did it w two strikes. Dumb net dumber

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Clown Show 0-2 in StarkVegas so far

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This

Hiring Clown as baseball coach to kill the baseball program would be like hiring Leach to kill the football program