Pitching Coach Candidates

[the_real_MSU_is_us]

Personally, I think it's insanity of the highest order. It would have been better to clean house than to financially hamstring ourselves to a second-tier (or lower) PC who under no circumstance is guaranteed to help us turn things around to the level we expect and demand of MSU baseball.

Agreed. It's like paying to replace the transmission of an old high mileage car with a blown head gasket. It's probably smarter to just scrap the car

[TheLostDawg]

Please stop using the excuse of keeping the recruiting class together. You bring in a top coach, he keeps it in place. However now we have two and possibly three years to make up now.

[TheLostDawg]

Really concerns me with Selmon. Can he make the smart/ tough decisions? I hope so. This won't make me lose faith just yet but things should start falling into place fairly soon if he's as good as yall say.

[BigDawg81]

Steve put up a new update about 2 hours.

[sandjunky]

Steve put up a new update about 2 hours.

What about 2hrs

[Cooterpoot]

Back to this again. Lemonising along, nothing to see here.

[KOdawg1]

Either we want someone who's still playing, or Lemonis is screwing this up like he has the entire program for the last 2 years.

[The Federalist Engineer]

When they present a dude from Eastern Illinois Tech College that Dan MacDonnell "recommended" ... then Buckets should be immediately dismissed, just let Goat coach for 2 years and hire Cannizarro to coach hitters.

[Really Clark?]

When they present a dude from Eastern Illinois Tech College that Dan MacDonnell "recommended" ... then Buckets should be immediately dismissed, just let Goat coach for 2 years and hire Cannizarro to coach hitters.

Cannizzaro can't keep a HS job, his name needs to be eliminated from being typed in consideration for any position at State Baseball

[StarkVegasSteve]

Cannizzaro can't keep a HS job, his name needs to be eliminated from being typed in consideration for any position at State Baseball

I would take that horny SOB back tomorrow. Yes I know it will never happen, but he would have us rolling in a month. And hey, Lee Begley is not here anymore so we have eliminated that distraction.

In all honesty we all know how this is going to end, Bunn will be hired and Lemonis will be fired next May.

[AlSwearengen]

We've given assurances to Walton. He's not coming here to look for a job next year. But let me guess, we just need to make post season to keep Lemonis. We don't have the pitching or the lineup right now to do more than just make post season. Sad our fans are ok with that. I'm amazed so many people are getting Lemonis back. Longest losing streak in history. Two consecutive missed SEC tournaments with no post season. Last place. People still slobbing him. We've already lost recruits and are about to lose more.

What recruits have we lost?

[Really Clark?]

We just have to wait a little bit for the landscape to clear. Walton is definitely in the mix, have to see how other jobs shake out. Hopefully we can get a formal interview with SC pitching coach soon and see if we can pry him away.

[Cooterpoot]

[sandjunky]

Lol
Just missing the bucket

[Todd4State]

We are a better job than those 3. We could have gotten Haire for example. I'm also not sure who we'd get next year that we couldn't this year, seems like that excuse to keep Lemonis will always exist

But I'm not sure Butch Thompson wouldn't come. That'd be my top target. What he's done at a non baseball school is impressive. But maybe he wouldn't come here. Partly depends on if he's happy to have Cohen as his boss again

We may have gotten Haire. He just turned down a job that is similar in resources to Florida and a place he could have won a title at if he kept the local talent. A lot less likely going to come here if we show that we'll fire you without giving a coach a chance to make changes. Not to mention we now have more money to work with now for next year. Butch? OK. You can't complain about Walton in the regionals this year and then be OK with Butch.

Like I said, amazing how our fans have accepted mediocrity in this program. The idea a team with our support, facilities, & NIL can't hire a great coach is 17ing laughable. Some people have been brainwashed. With P5 seeing more consolidation than ever, our job is a big ass job.

And who said we can't hire a great coach? Being able to hire a great coach doesn't give us a hall pass to mismanage our program.

[Todd4State]

Please stop using the excuse of keeping the recruiting class together. You bring in a top coach, he keeps it in place. However now we have two and possibly three years to make up now.

So quit discussing facts? OK.

[Todd4State]

We just have to wait a little bit for the landscape to clear. Walton is definitely in the mix, have to see how other jobs shake out. Hopefully we can get a formal interview with SC pitching coach soon and see if we can pry him away.

Exactly. And Jackson at Alabama probably didn't help himself today as far as getting the head coaching job there.

[Really Clark?]

Exactly. And Jackson at Alabama probably didn't help himself today as far as getting the head coaching job there.

True. And have to see if Yeski is staying, LSU bound or serious about us. What happens with Memphis HC job could have an impact within our candidate pool as well.

[the_real_MSU_is_us]

Walton has a mediocre resume and they shat the bed in the postseason. Butch has made Omaha several times, got his teak a host spot this year, and they shat the bed this postseason.

One is mediocre full stop. The other has achieved excellent results and faltered this one postseason. They are not the same.

[the_real_MSU_is_us]

And who said we can't hire a great coach? Being able to hire a great coach doesn't give us a hall pass to mismanage our program.

LOL Todd YOU are the one saying we can't hire a great coach! You've been saying over and over and over again if we fired Lemo we couldn't get anyone, but if we let him F up the program another year we will and that's why we should keep him.

You know youve been saying this, and you just keep contradicting yourself and backtracking.

And how dare you say we "haven't given Lemonis a chance to make changes"? He's in his 5TH YEAR, this is his team and his coaches. And he's missed Hoover twice now; this season WAS his chance to make changes and he failed to do so. No HC goes "I will not coach at a place that expects me to field a solid team in year 4 and 5, I need more time!" Every HC believes in themselves to have us rolling by then. They want assurances of 3-4 years to get going, not 6.