SEC Baseball Coaching hires

[Coach34]

If we get McDonell then Louisville truly is toxic and its a great hire for us. Thats obviously best case scenario I just cant get my hopes up on that based on previous SEC coaching hires

[preachermatt83]

What hour was it on... I will lost em to podcast. I think Cohen def goes for a big fish but I think it's about 50/50 on landing one. If not I would expect butch or jay johnson. I think rob Childress is s big fish that very few are talking about that I think Cohen would be going after. I still don't think Corbin is out of the running. If someone told me I had to bet 1000 bucks on one name it would be butch.

[Bully13]

I'm trying to figure out whether or not this thread makes me happy or sad. and I haven't even read it.

[preachermatt83]

After listening to Cohen today, I believe fully he's got his guy and it's gonna be a big fish. It's gonna be a Childress, Corbin, Schlosnagle, sully type of hire. I'm more convinced of that now. My money is no longer on butch after listening to that interview.

[Maridian Dawg]

Can I get a link to the podcast?

[AlSwearengen]

I agree with coach’s reasoning here. With that said, who knows what is going on with any particular coach’s private life. Schlossnagle might have a mother in law living in West Alabama. McDonnell might hate the new ad.

I Won’t be surprised if we end up with a former sec assistant that has done well at a non power 5 school for three or four years. I’m not talking about butch or Mingione.

[dawgoneyall]

After listening to Cohen today, I believe fully he's got his guy and it's gonna be a big fish. It's gonna be a Childress, Corbin, Schlosnagle, sully type of hire. I'm more convinced of that now. My money is no longer on butch after listening to that interview.

I got the impression McDonnell....?????

Outstanding at his specialty and great general knowledge of the game and multiple trips to the CWS............
But he said definitely the choice has not been made.

[Bothrops]

I'm feeling better about it now

[ScottH]

Can I get a link to the podcast?

Hour 2 about the 37 minute mark

[Todd4State]

It will be what it will be. Like I said the most important thing is the coaches background with MLB and the relationship with scouts and how they evaluate talent.

Cohen is very good at evaluating and hiring baseball coaches. It's pretty incredible that his first staff with us ended up having all three become head coaches at SEC schools or C-USA. And Lane could end up being a SEC coach one day as well. That doesn't include his staff at Kentucky which also had a staff that all became head coaches- Henderson, Bohannon, and Mingione.

The other thing that is comforting to me is Cohen knows what kind of coach it is going to take for us to get to a National Championship based on his hire of Cann. And the hiring of Cann to me makes it unlikely that it will be one of his old assistants because bringing back Butch or hiring Bohannon or even Mingione would have been the easy move at that point in time.

[Joe Schmedlap]

Cannizaro wasn’t really making that kind of money at State, was he? Now, he would have reached that level if he hadn’t been treating every day like Hump day. I seem to recall that he was started out at some point just under 500k

[ScoobaDawg]

Cannizaro wasn’t really making that kind of money at State, was he? Now, he would have reached that level if he hadn’t been treating every day like Hump day. I seem to recall that he was started out at some point just under 500k

Cann didn't deserve a top payment.. He was about to become a first year hc. He was getting paid 533k average for 4 years. This next hire will be a lot more expensive..

[Tbonewannabe]

Cannizaro wasn’t really making that kind of money at State, was he? Now, he would have reached that level if he hadn’t been treating every day like Hump day. I seem to recall that he was started out at some point just under 500k

This was from the CL when he was hired. I thought Canny was making more but I must have read in one of the articles where they listed Cohen's salary because it is $750k.

Cannizaro signed a four-year deal with an average salary of $533,333.

I wonder how high Cohen is willing to go for a coach.

[dawgs]

That's O'Conner. McDonnell is Louisville. He has no buyout clause, and he is an extremely possible candidate. Coach34 is trying to be helpful here, but he really doesn't have any inside info on this coaching search. I would put very much on the fact that we will hire a head coach from a major conference team.

I assumed C34 was referring to o?conner since his post followed up a post about o?connor?s salary.

[dawgs]

This was from the CL when he was hired. I thought Canny was making more but I must have read in one of the articles where they listed Cohen's salary because it is $750k.

Cannizaro signed a four-year deal with an average salary of $533,333.

I wonder how high Cohen is willing to go for a coach.

If we pony up for a McDonell or Schlossnagle type hire, salary will almost assuredly pay for itself. Or we can pinch pennies and hire an unknown quantity coming off the cann disaster and subsequent lost season and end up chasing away fans with poor results. Then we are on the hook for a fancy, expensive stadium that no one goes to.

[MarketingBully]

Lets look at all the SEC schools and where their coach came from:

Vanderbilt- hired Clemson asst Tim Corbin
South Carolina- hired Mark Kingston away from South Florida
Georgia- hired Scott Stricklin away from Kent State
Kentucky- hired assistant Nick Mingione away from State
Florida- hired Clemson asst Kevin O'Sullivan
Tennessee- hired UPig asst Tony Vitello
Missouri- hired Steve Bieser away from SE Missouri State

Mississippi State- hired asst coach Cann away from LSU
LSU- hired Paul Manieri away from Notre Dame
Ole Miss- hired Mike Bianco away from McNeese State
Auburn- hired asst Butch Thompson from State
UPig- hired Dave Van Horn away from Nebraska 16 years ago
Alabama- hired Auburn asst Brad Bohannon
Texas A&M- hired Nebraska asst Rob Childress


Not 1 coach in the SEC came from a major program. Not 1. Van Horn and Manieri are the only ones to come from a P5 program. South Carolina has won multiple championships and has a better program than us. They just hired South Florida's coach.

Please make sure you understand this as we hire our next coach

I think you will be wrong for the second time on this hire and this time it had everything to do with timing more then anything else. I understand your logic and reasoning though.

[ScoobaDawg]

Damn its gonna be a long next couple of months

[MarketingBully]

Damn its gonna be a long next couple of months

I want Louisville to go out in the regional so we can make the hire shortly after that.