He has stated on multiple occasions that he will not leave DBU. We tried to interview him in 19. He would be in that Tier B as well. Below Butch and Avent though.
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Lots of pressure with MSU and Ole Miss winning Titles in baseball. And even Delta State has one in D2.
The issue is they're not a SEC team meaning it's hard for them to recruit the talent they need to win a title. And then you have SEC teams poaching their players. A lot of USM fans were fired up about what they had coming back- and then Florida took their ace. They weren't even really competitive against Ole Miss in their SR. At home.
Gautreau at some point here.
Foxhall goes or Lemonis goes. Wouldnt mind both.
Meanwhile, Ostrander's D3 transfer pitcher, Billy Oldham, throws 5 scoreless tonight with no hits, no walks, and 9ks.
Yeah that's the thing, we're in a Portal era with a immediate eligibility transfer rule.
Have Luke Hancock as your first baseman for a year? Sucks, but we understand holes in lineups happen. The problem is not getting a better 1B in the portal for the next year. Then, imagine having Luke Hancock on your team for 2 years but having zero clue he's got a noodle arm and can't play catcher, I mean WTF?? How did we not know we needed a Portal catcher before 11 bases got stolen in 1 game?
And then we keep bad pitchers, and target Portal guys who suck and miss the gems like that D3 transfer.
What are we doing? We can't develop the guys we have (Forsythe), we can't evaluate the skills of the guys we have (Hancock), we can't evaluate Portal talent, and we can't get the Portal talent we do target (Skenes). I mean we get some good players in the Portal and HS don't get me wrong I'm not saying Jordan or Larry aren't great gets for Lemo... but I am saying he's missing at way too high a rate to build a solid team. He's supposed to be an elite recruiter, but he's failing to build a roster at every level
no million dollar result with a 75 cent effort from the top down
Tom will tell us everything we need to know. We got plum embarrassed tonight and Lemonis even said so. If someone (and I’m not sure we even have one, even the guy with the C. I saw Highfill talk more to the pitchers than Hancock did) step up and lead us and fire us up, we are doomed.
I understand more than most that baseball is a long long season and can change quickly. Hell my junior year we started 5-7 and then went 31-3 and won a Natty, it took the coach literally sitting every one, including me, and playing true freshman to wake everyone up. We had leaders tho. I’m not sure State does.
Now if we can’t turn it around, we’re gonna learn a lot about Selmon. I still don’t think Lemonis would be fired, but if he was, I would literally throw the bank at Vitello. I want the swag. I want the cockiness. I want the teams that are gritty and act like they give a shit.
We have too many right now who look like they are just going through the motions and don’t give a shit. Hell, our catcher has let everyone including my grandmother steal 2nd and what does he do, he is doing the damn splits with a runner on 1st. Get your ass up and get ready for the ball!!
I have worked nights and then been waking up early to watch us play, tom I think I’ll sleep…
Yea he may say no to a lot. But at this point, if I'm Lemonis and my ass is on the line, I ask him what it would take to get him and find a way to make it happen.
He wasn't offered. He was on their list. His daughter is in school at State. Berry is going die in that USM uniform. I heard it straight from Berry last year. He's nowhere near retirement. Said he's coaching as long as he can. Hell, Foxhall makes as much as Berry.
Even so, just hire a competent pitching coach. We don't have one.
And I'm starting to question the other coaches too. Defense is trash.
We messed up with the portal last year. We were too nice to guys who were on the team already even though we had holes last year like literally no established LHP.
Biggest concern to me right now is defense believe it or not. I can't figure that one out other than we are just trying to do too much or we aren't working on it enough one of the two.
Mershon is hurt. But I could see us going with Hujsak or Will Hoyle. I know Hoyle can't hit but if he makes plays it would help in the short term until Mershon is back. Hujsak is a better hitter but not sure that he makes us better defensively.
I've suggested Chance in RF. Sure he can't throw but hard to take him out right now.
No we messed up in 2021 and we're reaping the benefits now. We should have taken a MINIMUM of 4 position players (SS, 2B, CF, RF) and 6 pitchers from the portal and I think we took 2 or 3 total players. This all leads back to what I saw in July of 2021. I said it then and I have said it every day since, celebrating that team like we did was dumb as hell. It gave everyone from the coaches to the players to the damn managers and bullpen catchers this entitlement that their s*** didn't stink. We thought we were fine and we didn't need to improve. Cohen should've had Lemonis in his office July 1 asking what's the plan for the portal and for next year.