Quote Originally Posted by Todd4State View Post
One thing a lot of people don't realize about BOC. He is the only ACC coach to win a NC since the 1950's. And he did it in the SEC dominated era beating Vanderbilt I believe.

It's easy to see why his teams succeed and get to Omaha so much.

And while Virginia is a good program and has a lot of resources for baseball relatively speaking - BOC now has more resources than he has ever had before.

To me, honestly it feels like we finally have settled our baseball coach situation for the first time since Cohen left. There were definitely times where Lemonis you felt like he was going to be fine and even times when I felt like that about Cann. But it's just that BOC feels like the real deal. You know he isn't going to do anything like Cann did and you also don't get the sense that if he wins a NC it might be because of what was left behind.
Actually - I'll go one better. This is the first time we've had our coaching situation settled, coach completely focused, program well resourced, and fanbase unified since Ron Polk first "retired" in 1992.
After he retired and then unretired in '92, Polk was going thru the motions. Maybe you can argue when Mac was coach we had it - but he was obviously thinking of "bigger and better" and being out of Polk's shadow. We won't talk about Polk II. Cohen split the fan base - and more importantly the funding base. Cann was Cann. Lemon pre-2022 was there - but even then we had people not all in like this, and then he lost it.

It's a testament to the program that we've been able to compete at a pretty strong level during all of that.