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22: The problem was injuries

23: Our hitting was great but the problem was Foxhall

24: Our pitching was great but the problem was our hitters are not clutch

25: Our hitting is good but the problem is our pitchers suck.


There is one common denominator in all of those years. Chris Lemonis. We can go around and around about our talent, assistants, portal misses, etc. All that falls at the feet of Chris Lemonis and it is why he will be fired.
22- We aren't firing a coach one year removed from a NC. You know that. Especially after Cohen got to come back after 2015. I thought we should've fired Foxhall then but he was the National Assistant of the year the year before. So not surprised we didn't fire him then.

23- firing him this year would have looked almost as bad as 2022 through the lens of a baseball coach. If we had fired him at this time we're probably talking about how we should have given Chris more time and how could we hire a risk like Will Coggin? If you are a head coaching candidate and you saw our team ERA that year you would wonder why they didn't just replace the pitching coach.

24- looked to be turning it around even if we underachieved. No reason to fire anyone.

25- you can't miss the postseason 3 out of 4 years at MSU and head coaching candidates understand that too. Now we're in a position to hire the best candidate possible and didn't get to watch baseball's version of Rick Ray happen.