Tonight Will Wrap Up The Chris Lemonis Era

[bulldogcountry1]

I?ve gotten to the point where I think having a familiarity with State or SEC baseball culture as an assistant carries as much weight as being a HC anywhere else where there is no fan support or pressure.

[Pancho]

And you'd be incorrect again

then put up or zip it. He's better in a competitive sense than what we currently have. I bet you'd say the same to his relatives and hey, even say it to coggin himself. you must be a big ole boy. i like the panties in a wad comment. we need a dam HC with a spine. we dam sure ain't got one now. We will be relegated to finishing 12-16 in the league if we don't have an AD who sees this. big boy know it all boosters be damned.

[Coach34]

Every coach we have hired in baseball had a worse job that was lower than State when they accepted our job. We have never hired a Top guy.

Polk from Georgia Southern
Patty Mac- promoted from within and he left us for Fla
Polk 2 as he really never wanted to leave in the 1st place
John Cohen from Kentucky. 20 years ago our job was alot better. That gap has closed but we are still a better job
Cann- went the top Asst route because other top guys turned us down
Lemon- HC from a lower school after numerous top guys turned us down

We have never hired a top coach and we never will. We will hire a HC from a lesser program or a Top Asst ready to be a HC. This summer we'll see that play out again

[Cooterpoot]

Every coach we have hired in baseball had a worse job that was lower than State when they accepted our job. We have never hired a Top guy.

Polk from Georgia Southern
Patty Mac- promoted from within and he left us for Fla
Polk 2 as he really never wanted to leave in the 1st place
John Cohen from Kentucky. 20 years ago our job was alot better. That gap has closed but we are still a better job
Cann- went the top Asst route because other top guys turned us down
Lemon- HC from a lower school after numerous top guys turned us down

We have never hired a top coach and we never will. We will hire a HC from a lesser program or a Top Asst ready to be a HC. This summer we'll see that play out again

Every job outside the SEC is a lesser job really

[Coursesuper]

Every coach we have hired in baseball had a worse job that was lower than State when they accepted our job. We have never hired a Top guy.

Polk from Georgia Southern
Patty Mac- promoted from within and he left us for Fla
Polk 2 as he really never wanted to leave in the 1st place
John Cohen from Kentucky. 20 years ago our job was alot better. That gap has closed but we are still a better job
Cann- went the top Asst route because other top guys turned us down
Lemon- HC from a lower school after numerous top guys turned us down

We have never hired a top coach and we never will. We will hire a HC from a lesser program or a Top Asst ready to be a HC. This summer we'll see that play out again

Mac was HC at ODU and came back to be HC.

[Coach34]

Mac was HC at ODU and came back to be HC.

Mac was an asst at State- left to be a HC- and then came back for a couple of years with the promise he would be the HC after Polk. He came back for 2 years before he was made HC. We promoted from within as I said.

[Todd4State]

I don't mind kicking the tires on Bakich. We don't need to bother with Vitello. Tennessee has 500 Richard Adkerson's and about 250 of them are far wealthier. Jimmy Haslam could pay off the debt on Dudy Noble with one check and not know the money was missing.

It becomes supply and demand at a certain point.

They clearly don't care about paying 4 million for a QB but they're going to break the bank for Vitello?

We care more about baseball than Tennessee does. More or less comes down to whether Vitello wants to come here. Which is why it's worth asking and trying. If Alabama didn't try to get Nick Saban they wouldn't have gotten him either and I guarantee you the Dolphins owner would have won a bidding war against Alabama.

I don't think Vitello is out of our pride range or theirs. Really a matter of want and fit.

[Coach34]

It becomes supply and demand at a certain point.

They clearly don't care about paying 4 million for a QB but they're going to break the bank for Vitello?

We care more about baseball than Tennessee does. More or less comes down to whether Vitello wants to come here. Which is why it's worth asking and trying. If Alabama didn't try to get Nick Saban they wouldn't have gotten him either and I guarantee you the Dolphins owner would have won a bidding war against Alabama.

I don't think Vitello is out of our pride range or theirs. Really a matter of want and fit.

lol- they already pay him more than twice what we pay. In no world of reality are we going to pay a baseball coach $4MM or even 5MM that it would take to just get the HC- then the other salaries for the rest of the staff. It's lunacy to even think it's possible. Our next HC is gonna be making about $800K as a first time HC most likely

[Cooterpoot]

Vitello isn't leaving TN and we aren't paying what it would take for his buyout either

[Todd4State]

Every coach we have hired in baseball had a worse job that was lower than State when they accepted our job. We have never hired a Top guy.

Polk from Georgia Southern
Patty Mac- promoted from within and he left us for Fla
Polk 2 as he really never wanted to leave in the 1st place
John Cohen from Kentucky. 20 years ago our job was alot better. That gap has closed but we are still a better job
Cann- went the top Asst route because other top guys turned us down
Lemon- HC from a lower school after numerous top guys turned us down

We have never hired a top coach and we never will. We will hire a HC from a lesser program or a Top Asst ready to be a HC. This summer we'll see that play out again

Polk was hired at a time when we had one CWS appearance and had never won a game in Omaha. Was actually a pretty crazy situation between D'Armi, Bragan, and Polk and involved people like Alex Grammas who was the Brewers manager at the time and a MSU alum and former player. Polk left Georgia Southern because of lack of commitment and we got him after a pit stop at Miami where he left GSU to be an assistant.

Pat McMahon- already been said. Essentially run off because he wasn't Polk.

Polk 2- could have had Manieri and LT chose to make some alumni happy instead of doing what was best for MSU. Also could have had Augie Garrido around 1991 but Polk decided to come back after some boosters talked him into coming back which led to the eventual Pat McMahon assistant head coach situation.

Cohen- Greg Byrne told people 17 you were hiring Cohen from Kentucky. Could have hired a number of people like Steve Smith, Brian Shoop, and of course Tommy Raffo. There were rumors about Polk calling up Pat Casey who Byrne was interested in and talked him out of taking the job. Same with Tim Corbin.

Cann- in a sign of things to come Cohen 17ed this up. By far the least qualified candidate MSU has ever hired. We hired Cann in October which would be like hiring a football coach in July. No way we could do a proper search at that point. Should have made Henderson the interim for 2017....

Henderson- and it happened anyway in 2018. Mike Brown doesn't get near the credit he deserves for his work with that team. So our interim had SEC head coaching experience and was more qualified than Cann.

Lemonis- Cohen 17ed this up by running his mouth and basically told everyone we were hiring Schlossnagle. When that fell through he begged Dan McDonnell for the job and we ended up with Louisville's sloppy seconds. And we begged Tim Corbin to take the job AGAIN. At least twice.

[Todd4State]

lol- they already pay him more than twice what we pay. In no world of reality are we going to pay a baseball coach $4MM or even 5MM that it would take to just get the HC- then the other salaries for the rest of the staff. It's lunacy to even think it's possible. Our next HC is gonna be making about $800K as a first time HC most likely

Vitello isn't leaving TN and we aren't paying what it would take for his buyout either

Who is really paying for this? "We" or Richard Adkerson? If the athletic department gets a 16 million dollar donation in July I think that will answer that.

Buyouts are negotiable by the way.

[Coach34]

Who is really paying for this? "We" or Richard Adkerson? If the athletic department gets a 16 million dollar donation in July I think that will answer that.

Buyouts are negotiable by the way.

If he's giving the AD 16MM that means baseball will get about 3MM to buy out Lemon and the staff. Then we will hire a top asst

[Coursesuper]

Mac was an asst at State- left to be a HC- and then came back for a couple of years with the promise he would be the HC after Polk. He came back for 2 years before he was made HC. We promoted from within as I said.

I know, I him well. It shocked us that he hired Jim Case and not Timmy when he took got the head gig. His first game as HC he passed a sticky note to my dad from the dugout, It said " Help I need a line up, quickly".

[StarkVegasSteve]

If he's giving the AD 16MM that means baseball will get about 3MM to buy out Lemon and the staff. Then we will hire a top asst

Nope. Richard has say where his money goes. That's why football doesn't get a lot of it. He's just not a fan of football. Nothing against the staff or anything like that. He just would rather us be good in basketball. They've convinced him to care about baseball.

[gtowndawg]

Nope. Richard has say where his money goes. That's why football doesn't get a lot of it. He's just not a fan of football. Nothing against the staff or anything like that. He just would rather us be good in basketball. They've convinced him to care about baseball.

Richard, if you're reading this, for all that is holy, please give the money to football (and thank you for making basketball good again).

[Coach34]

Nope. Richard has say where his money goes. That's why football doesn't get a lot of it. He's just not a fan of football. Nothing against the staff or anything like that. He just would rather us be good in basketball. They've convinced him to care about baseball.

Hey I'm all for a big infusion into baseball. But basketball isnt getting any cheaper. We shall see when we start the process in about a month

[ZedFedder]

Still nothing on what Coggin did.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Hey I'm all for a big infusion into baseball. But basketball isnt getting any cheaper. We shall see when we start the process in about a month

It's not that he's giving that much to baseball but I think if Selmon asked him he'd cut a check for 4-5 million for a buyout.

[Coach34]

It's not that he's giving that much to baseball but I think if Selmon asked him he'd cut a check for 4-5 million for a buyout.

Well, I hope we are talking to some agents already and are smart enough to not be used as a pay raise by current SEC HC's

[StarkVegasSteve]

Well, I hope we are talking to some agents already and are smart enough to not be used as a pay raise by current SEC HC's

That's my worry. We already know Cliff Godwin will do exactly that. Wes Johnson will probably do that as well. I could also see O'Sullivan doing it. We don't need to waste our time with candidates like that. We just have to be very diligent with who we're after.