We were stuck on how much it would cost to fire him. The real question was how much it would cost to keep him. Typical small minded Mississippi State thinking.
At the very least, we should have better pitching. Then we fire Lemonis if we still suck overall.
We gained a legit pitching coach. That can’t be overstated. I think the prospect of having our arms, many of which are very highly regarded, under the tutelage of somebody that doesn’t suck can only help.
A&M is a huge academic downgrade from Stanford
We should see who wants to play D1 from
calbears.com
wsucougars.com
Maybe in the private vs. public scenario. TAMU is an elite public university, just like Stanford is an elite private one. They’re both all but impossible to get into for anybody below elite to very excellent academically.
That was all a BS rumor. Buyout was less than people were claiming. We just had a new AD not ready to make that move because he didn't have time to get his feet under him.
The number was inflated for sure. AD doesn’t get a pass though. If he’s not ready to do his damn job on the day we hired him, we hired the wrong AD. I was excited when we hired him, but his performance so far has been Templetonesque.
It’s just that rankings are ordinal. I’ve been affiliated with multiple top 25 universities, and top 10 undergrand are truly a step above. Value of that depends on what you want to do, though.
He won with some else's players. He's run it in the ditch since. The guy isn't good. I get the AD issue and completely understand that. Just an unfortunate timing thing.
Imagine buying out a failing restaurant. The whole town's saying that the food's not what it used to be, the place is operating with half the staff that's needed because it can't keep workers, and the business hasn't turned a profit in 2 years. Meanwhile, joints all over town are doing great, and new spots are popping up a monthly basis.
If there’s one athletic program on campus we should have high expectations for, it’s baseball. But nobody cares anymore We've fired coaches in several sports recently for better results than we’ve had in baseball the last 2 years.
If he's not competent enough to look at Bucket Boys performance the last two years then we've got more than one issue.
I guess that we've done so well the last two years that it doesn't matter who the players are now. We did not need the better players, anyhow. We'll have the same coach, which will make all the difference. He just needs another year to show us how good of a coach he is.
Agree with your main point
I'll just say that most of us on here have been or will be hiring managers at some point. I've made good hires and I've made bad hires. It generally doesn't take 2 years to figure out which one you made.
