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    Lemonis was never prepared for this

    Personally, I think Cohen took too much of Lemon's best friend advice. McDonnell wanted to get his good ol friend a big gig job. We gave that to him. He wasn't at the level that STATE needs. Take a look at his record prior to joining:

    2015 Indiana 35-24 12-10 6th NCAA Regional
    2016 Indiana 32-24 15-9 T-3rd
    2017 Indiana 34-24-2 14-9-1 6th NCAA Regional
    2018 Indiana 40-19 14-9 5th NCAA Regional

    Honestly? I don't think he deserved it. It's showing. He's average at best and

    WE DESERVE THE BEST of the BEST.

    Thoughts...

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    I think your theory is being proven by results.

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    I'm not going to call a coach who won a national title for us (and one where we were a national seed and great all season, not one with a few fluky good weeks at the end) a bad hire. Clearly something has changed and he's lost whatever he had in his first 3 years here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quaoarsking View Post
    I'm not going to call a coach who won a national title for us (and one where we were a national seed and great all season, not one with a few fluky good weeks at the end) a bad hire. Clearly something has changed and he's lost whatever he had in his first 3 years here.
    There's something to be said for that. SloMo inherited a loaded team and shite the bed the first season.

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    Lemonis is a supervisor, not an architect.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quaoarsking View Post
    I'm not going to call a coach who won a national title for us (and one where we were a national seed and great all season, not one with a few fluky good weeks at the end) a bad hire. Clearly something has changed and he's lost whatever he had in his first 3 years here.
    Cannazario had a lot to do with our NC.

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    Maybe Cohen was hands on during NC season - gave the keys to Lemonis and he ran car off road last year

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quaoarsking View Post
    I'm not going to call a coach who won a national title for us (and one where we were a national seed and great all season, not one with a few fluky good weeks at the end) a bad hire. Clearly something has changed and he's lost whatever he had in his first 3 years here.
    Quote Originally Posted by viverlibre View Post
    There's something to be said for that. SloMo inherited a loaded team and shite the bed the first season.
    Yes and yes.

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    Lemonis first year here he left pitchers in way to long. I remember peeps here saying such. Foxhall couldn?t screw up all the alpha male pitchers we had. And we had other alpha males that absolutely refused to give up or lose games. Then we won a championship Lemonis and crew got all the pat on the backs, got all the national media coverage. The next year 2022 we roll out a gutted team. No Alfa males. Just bit players. 2023 Lemonis recruits hard and pulls players off the portal. But for whatever he didn?t prepare the team thoroughly for the season. Didn?t teach what it takes to play in the SEC. And god awful Foxhall just don?t know what the 7 he did to our pitchers. Anyway both need to be fired and sent far away!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quaoarsking View Post
    I'm not going to call a coach who won a national title for us (and one where we were a national seed and great all season, not one with a few fluky good weeks at the end) a bad hire. Clearly something has changed and he's lost whatever he had in his first 3 years here.
    A blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while. The fact that Lemonis won MSU baseball?s first Natty is more on the incompetence of his predecessors. Besides a handful of schools, no one took baseball seriously for 50 years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Leeshouldveflanked View Post
    A blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while. The fact that Lemonis won MSU baseball?s first Natty is more on the incompetence of his predecessors. Besides a handful of schools, no one took baseball seriously for 50 years.
    Still, tho....when finding that "nut" is winning our first NC, it's obviously an accomplishment.

    That being said, just as Q said before, something has clearly been lost and the train is well off the tracks.

    I've been consistent on my Lem position this season. Unless there is some miraculous turn around (which I see zero hope for), we absolutely should clean house.

    That being said, I think a lot of our fans over-estimate our ability to pull a no-doubt/elite/established head coach. All those guys turned us down last time, too. Which is why we ended up with Lemonis (who looked like a goldmine his first 3 seasons).

    I'd love Butch, bc he's done way more with less at a historically basement program and bc of his ties here, but I could see a bunch of our fans even being disappointed with him.
    Last edited by BeardoMSU; 03-26-2023 at 04:24 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BeardoMSU View Post
    Still, tho....when finding that "nut" is winning our first NC, it's obvious an accomplishment.

    That being said, just as Q said before, something has cleared be lost and the train is well off the tracks.

    I've been consistent on my Lem position this season. Unless there is some miraculous turn around (which I see zero hope for), we absolutely should clean house.

    That being said, I think a lot of our fans over-estimate our ability to pull a no-doubt/elite/established head coach. All those guys turned us down last time, too. Which is why we ended up with Lemonis (who looked like a goldmine his first 3 seasons).

    I'd love Butch, bc he's done way more with less at a historically basement program and bc of his ties here, but I could see a bunch of our fans even being disappointed with him.
    I'd be thrilled with Butch.

    You're right in that some fans will have too high of expectations. We're not going to pull a McDonnell, Corbin, Tadlock, or any other proven coach at a top 15 program. It's not gonna happen. We probably won't even pull Godwin.

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    Lemonis is not a bad coach. He is just regressing back to the mean. Without the elite talent that he inherited that had already been developed he is an average coach. He will put us in the tournament every 2-3 years with a chance to host every 3-4 years. At some schools that is ok, it is not here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BHildreth3 View Post
    Personally, I think Cohen took too much of Lemon's best friend advice. McDonnell wanted to get his good ol friend a big gig job. We gave that to him. He wasn't at the level that STATE needs. Take a look at his record prior to joining:

    2015 Indiana 35-24 12-10 6th NCAA Regional
    2016 Indiana 32-24 15-9 T-3rd
    2017 Indiana 34-24-2 14-9-1 6th NCAA Regional
    2018 Indiana 40-19 14-9 5th NCAA Regional

    Honestly? I don't think he deserved it. It's showing. He's average at best and

    WE DESERVE THE BEST of the BEST.

    Thoughts...
    Dan MacDonnell "recommended" his ace recruiter to JC.

    MSU did win 40 SEC games and a National Championship

    The project has run out of magic, that's the deal

    Lemons will always have a ring that McD does not have.

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    Still pisses me off how Cohen went around during that season of the coaching search saying the guy he was hiring had multiple CWS appearances. Then when his plan A, B, C fell through, he went to Lemonis.
    Then we had the MSU media saying "well he did go to the CWS as an assistant coach"... ok ,but no where near the same as how Cohen was bragging about.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KOdawg1 View Post
    We probably won't even pull Godwin.
    Every SEC school should be able to pull an AAC school in any sport. Missouri should be able to poach him if they were willing to commit to baseball, and if we can't, we are in serious trouble going forward.

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    Quote Originally Posted by msstate7 View Post
    Lemonis is a supervisor, not an architect.
    Good way to put it.

    He's not going to meddle with his assistants and a lot of times that is the way to go. And honestly not always a bad thing.

    But there are times where he needs to be the big dog and step in- and that is Lemonis's biggest fault right now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sandjunky View Post
    Maybe Cohen was hands on during NC season - gave the keys to Lemonis and he ran car off road last year
    When Lemonis took over he had two first round pick guys in the rotation- Small and Ginn and then two more on the way in the form of Bednar and Sims. Also inherited Cole Gordon and Colby White who may both be MLB players. Peyton Plumlee was a very good college pitcher who came from a baseball family as his Dad played at Delta State.

    Dustin Skelton was a solid catcher and we had LoTan coming in after him and Tanner will probably be a MLB catcher.

    On the infield we had two first round picks and Tanner Allen.

    Then we had Mangum and MacNamee in the outfield along with Rowdey.

    We may have had Hunter Stovall on the team too when Lemonis got here- so yeah.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Santiago View Post
    Still pisses me off how Cohen went around during that season of the coaching search saying the guy he was hiring had multiple CWS appearances. Then when his plan A, B, C fell through, he went to Lemonis.
    Then we had the MSU media saying "well he did go to the CWS as an assistant coach"... ok ,but no where near the same as how Cohen was bragging about.
    Yeah I thought that was pretty funny.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quaoarsking View Post
    I'm not going to call a coach who won a national title for us (and one where we were a national seed and great all season, not one with a few fluky good weeks at the end) a bad hire. Clearly something has changed and he's lost whatever he had in his first 3 years here.
    This and it's sad.

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