He is coming back for 2024
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He is coming back for 2024
Because apparently after 2 years of some of the worst baseball in MSU history no decent coach will consider us because of Lemonis winning the '21 NC. But if we get a 3rd year of horrendous baseball then they will all line up to interview. I am sort of torn about what we should do but this one point I don't get. Heck, we forced out Moorhead after 2 straight bowl years but we are worried about changing coaches here after missing Hoover 2 straight years? Lemonis did get his first two teams to Omaha but those teams were pretty much built before he got here. He just managed them. And letting a coach go at the end of the season will almost always mean waiting for some other coach to finish their season. That will be true now or if we are in this same boat next year.
We are just in a terrible, terrible position because there has never been a college baseball coach so successful his first 2 years followed up by being anywhere close to this unsuccessful his next 2 years. If the last 2 seasons had been just mediocre then Lemonis would be back no question asked, but are we willing to risk a 3rd straight embarrassing season if we let him stay? Of course we could get another really bad year next year regardless of what we do given the current state of things.
I doubt doubt that we as a program can be in the hosting discussion in 2024. But I do doubt that we will be if Lemonis is our head coach. Any good coach should be able to win with our talent, resources, and fanbase. Lemonis has demonstrated that he can't anymore.
The idea that "well we can't make a change because who knows if we can get a guy the fanbase will be happy with!" is a bad argument, because we already have a coach that most of the fanbase isn't happy with. And even if the fanbase is underwhelmed by the hire, everyone will be happy once he gets here and starts winning (ironic case in point, just like Chris Lemonis, an underwhelming hire who turned out to be better than many of us expected).
Let's just be bad forever because we might be bad if we tried to get better.
We've been losing for 2 years because of pitching. Decimated by injuries in 2022. Hurt by them in 2023 along with some bad decisions on transfers. Losing Cade for a month. Losing Kohn. Keeping PFS. Having to pitch freshmen too often is why we arent in Hoover. We have decided to switch PC's. We have a solid group returning and need to find 2-3 contributors on the hill and should have a good staff in 2024.
Look at LSU. They are Skenes and that's it now due to injuries. I dont think they make it out of a Super and could lose their regional if a team with some decent pitching depth is in it. They burn Skenes in Game 1 of their Regional and I like the 2 seed chances against them