Quote Originally Posted by Maroon Glasses View Post
Spot on. Boosters hire and boosters fire. And baseball is hard and extremely unpredictable. You really never know. Look at A&M last year.
Well yeah, Texas A&M hired a 36-year-old with no head coaching experience and he underachieved. Maybe he'll figure it out and end up being good, or maybe he's just not a college head coach. We'll see.

On the other hand, we hired a guy with 22 years of head coaching, who's been to Omaha 7 times with a title, and has a record of having great regular seasons and still the #1 seeding overachiever in the NCAA Tournament over the last 2 decades, and generally considered at worst a top 4 coach in all of college baseball with a lot of good arguments for #1.

I agree that there are no sure things in college baseball, but O'Connor is as close to one as you're going to get. It would be shocking if we aren't consistently hosting and contenders for Omaha over the next decade.