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    Quote Originally Posted by Todd4State View Post
    LOL. NO!
    So I know I'm in the minority in that line of thinking, but what about Lemonis makes him a better coach or recruiter than Andy? It may not be possible, but try to take the off the field stuff out of your line of thinking. The guy cheated on his wife, it's bad no matter which way you slice it, but also wasn't the only coach on our campus cheating with her. Hell the other coaches wife knew about it and didn't care.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 99jc View Post
    lemonhead officially on the clock............
    I'm willing to keep him with a different pitching coach.

    Now if he won't fire Foxhall that's a different story.

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    Quote Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve View Post
    So I know I'm in the minority in that line of thinking, but what about Lemonis makes him a better coach or recruiter than Andy? It may not be possible, but try to take the off the field stuff out of your line of thinking. The guy cheated on his wife, it's bad no matter which way you slice it, but also wasn't the only coach on our campus cheating with her. Hell the other coaches wife knew about it and didn't care.
    We were already top 10 without Lemonis. Not much place to go for any coach. Lemonis's classes the next two years are very talented and better than we have had under Cohen and Cann.

    Cann has also had some issues at the high school he coached at- including basically getting into an altercation with a parent or fan which caused him to be fired. He has too many demons to be successful. Sadly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve View Post
    So does anyone else think we should've just rode out the storm with Cann and let him stay? I've had that thought for the better part of a year now. Because I believe he'd have won a Natty in 21. Hell he got a team pitching position players to a Super
    What? No. Goodness.

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    Quote Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve View Post
    So I know I'm in the minority in that line of thinking, but what about Lemonis makes him a better coach or recruiter than Andy? It may not be possible, but try to take the off the field stuff out of your line of thinking. The guy cheated on his wife, it's bad no matter which way you slice it, but also wasn't the only coach on our campus cheating with her. Hell the other coaches wife knew about it and didn't care.
    The problem wasn't primarily cheating on his wife (which a lot of college coaches do), the problem was that he was apparently obsessed with the affair to the point that he was totally distracted from doing the coaching job he was being paid to do.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Todd4State View Post
    I'm willing to keep him with a different pitching coach.

    Now if he won't fire Foxhall that's a different story.
    Then your loyalty is with Lemonis and not Mississippi State. HE recruited these guys. HE makes the final call on every decision. HE is the one making 1 million plus. This is a results business. What does winning a national championship mean if you can't do it again. You either produce or you need to hit the road. Foxhall should've been gone last year.

    We have a 60 million dollar stadium. We didn't build it to win attendance records and lose to VMI in February or get beat by 4 TDs by Tennessee in May. We built the damn thing to host Super Regionals.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HoopsDawg View Post
    What? No. Goodness.
    Yeah. The thing is it wasn't JUST the cheating with Cann. He lost the respect of the team. If we didn't fire him then it was going to just get worse.

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    Quote Originally Posted by maroonmania View Post
    The problem wasn't primarily cheating on his wife (which a lot of college coaches do), the problem was that he was apparently obsessed with the affair to the point that he was totally distracted from doing the coaching job he was being paid to do.

    And as I said, we should've suspended him and revisited the subject in June. I understand he lost the team, but he lost THAT team. Not THE program. Most of our players were still very close to Cannizarro. Hell he texted half the damn team the day we won it all. If we still felt uneasy then you move forward with the search after the season. I thought it was bad when we fired him and I knew he was cheating in December . Again that's my opinion. It has never changed and probably won't ever change. I saw a guy who could've been the best coach we ever had. I hated to see it end how it did. I thought we could've rehabilitated him.
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    Quote Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve View Post
    So does anyone else think we should've just rode out the storm with Cann and let him stay? I've had that thought for the better part of a year now. Because I believe he'd have won a Natty in 21. Hell he got a team pitching position players to a Super
    Do you remember the opening weekend that resulted in him getting fired? It was worse than what happened today....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cowbell View Post
    Do you remember the opening weekend that resulted in him getting fired? It was worse than what happened today....
    Oh I do. I was there. It was bad. It wasn't worse than the last two years though. Again, I'm well aware my opinion is unpopular. But I guarantee you we would have a hell of a lot more fight with him in the dugout than Lemons sitting on a bucket.

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    Quote Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve View Post
    Then your loyalty is with Lemonis and not Mississippi State. HE recruited these guys. HE makes the final call on every decision. HE is the one making 1 million plus. This is a results business. What does winning a national championship mean if you can't do it again. You either produce or you need to hit the road. Foxhall should've been gone last year.

    We have a 60 million dollar stadium. We didn't build it to win attendance records and lose to VMI in February or get beat by 4 TDs by Tennessee in May. We built the damn thing to host Super Regionals.
    This is why any coach wanting to achieve comes to MSU. Lemo did some good things but that seems like a decade ago now in light of the level of baseball we see now. He needs to adjust quickly with what he has.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Todd4State View Post
    I'm willing to keep him with a different pitching coach.

    Now if he won't fire Foxhall that's a different story.
    I was wondering today if Foxhall will be Lemonis' Woody McCorvey.

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    Quote Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve View Post
    So I know I'm in the minority in that line of thinking, but what about Lemonis makes him a better coach or recruiter than Andy? It may not be possible, but try to take the off the field stuff out of your line of thinking. The guy cheated on his wife, it's bad no matter which way you slice it, but also wasn't the only coach on our campus cheating with her. Hell the other coaches wife knew about it and didn't care.
    This we agree on.........I think they should've sat him down and had a face to face and given a stern warning before he was fired and from my knowledge, that didn't happen..........
    "The QB and the receiver weren't on the same page there, but hey its only week eleven". (Jack Cristil)

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    Quote Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve View Post
    Then your loyalty is with Lemonis and not Mississippi State. HE recruited these guys. HE makes the final call on every decision. HE is the one making 1 million plus. This is a results business. What does winning a national championship mean if you can't do it again. You either produce or you need to hit the road. Foxhall should've been gone last year.

    We have a 60 million dollar stadium. We didn't build it to win attendance records and lose to VMI in February or get beat by 4 TDs by Tennessee in May. We built the damn thing to host Super Regionals.
    No. I'm logical. We need a pitching coach. Not a head coach.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Todd4State View Post
    No. I'm logical. We need a pitching coach. Not a head coach.
    While we are on nobody is safe. Why is lem?? I like him. I think he's good. I do. But he is 100% responsible for how much scholarship everyone gets. Fox and lem are both good coaches. The same two guys that led us to the series two years in a row. They didn't get stupid. But I get our performance today is completely unacceptable. I'm not gonna go ole miss fan til I see it play out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Saltydog View Post
    This we agree on.........I think they should've sat him down and had a face to face and given a stern warning before he was fired and from my knowledge, that didn't happen..........
    So it did happen. It happened in January after he got back from the bowl game. That I know for certain. And look I understand my opinion is not popular especially since we told him to stop it before the season. However, I have always thought the play was suspend him and revisit the situation in June. Give him time to work on himself and his marriage outside of the stress of the season and if he was able to be contrite and willing to amend the contract where it was clearly stated that at the first whiff of this sort of thing happening he is gone no questions asked. Again, that is me and what I would have done. I am not paid to make that decision though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve View Post
    So it did happen. It happened in January after he got back from the bowl game. That I know for certain. And look I understand my opinion is not popular especially since we told him to stop it before the season. However, I have always thought the play was suspend him and revisit the situation in June. Give him time to work on himself and his marriage outside of the stress of the season and if he was able to be contrite and willing to amend the contract where it was clearly stated that at the first whiff of this sort of thing happening he is gone no questions asked. Again, that is me and what I would have done. I am not paid to make that decision though.
    He didn't get fired for banging a chick. He got fired from not doing his damn job. Keeping him would have set us back a half decade.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Homedawg View Post
    He didn't get fired for banging a chick. He got fired from not doing his damn job. Keeping him would have set us back a half decade.
    He made the supers with position players pitching. He did get caught up in social media and things of that nature. That prevented him from doing his job at the highest level. However, as I stated, I think if you could've suspended for the year and let him get refocused and you were comfortable with him again then you bring him back. Because when he was focused, he was one of the best coaches in the country.

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    Quote Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve View Post
    He made the supers with position players pitching. He did get caught up in social media and things of that nature. That prevented him from doing his job at the highest level. However, as I stated, I think if you could've suspended for the year and let him get refocused and you were comfortable with him again then you bring him back. Because when he was focused, he was one of the best coaches in the country.
    Nobody on that roster respected him. They were why he got fired. They ratted him out. No way he should have stayed. None.

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