He should be gone if we don’t make Omaha this year. It’s been waaay too long, and he’s had ample time to do it and has failed. It’s ridiculous.
Blaming injuries for losses is for losers. I get that. But losing 3/4 of the infield along with Hall, Sanders and Jerzembeck has been abnormally brutal. Don't know of any team that could absorb those kind of losses and not be negatively impacted to a great degree....
He either can’t field a good team or he can’t field a healthy team. Same story every year. He needs to go if he can’t figure it out. We used to say win anyway. And Sanders had one good game all year…not a big loss.
They've got the book on Petry now, breaking balls on the outer half and fast balls chest level. He's not touching either one.
Kingston shouldn't be going anywhere after this year. Here's why:
I agree. What ever happened to "win anyway". It's turned into "well, we had injuries, OK!!".
Reason 3. It would be the AD job to get a coach that the majority of players would stay here and play. Some may leave, that's the breaks. Some may come in, that's good.
Those are all fine points. This program spent 4 decades as one of the top programs in the country. We should hold the HC accountable to those standards. I don't care what the reasons are....King can't overcome them. So what we're saying is, we have to wait until he has a roster loaded with MLB talent that stays 100% healthy the whole year to judge him. That's ludicrous. He should be judged on his results just as Holbrook was. Crazy thing is, Holbrook has something King doesn't...he was the AHC for a CWS winning team.
Someone who has knowledge of pitching and offense philosophy of moving runners over. I think we have an assistant who can handle the hitting philosophy, ML.
No idea. But lets stay away from guys that have had a flat career, stay away from guys that have hovered around .500. Give me Landon Powell before you hire another Kingston.
I could get on board with that. He clearly knows how to coach. He's getting good talent to go to Tigerville, SC, where you can't have alcohol on campus, can't have a girl in your room, have to go to chapel, etc...Just an all around good dude too.
Agree... USC has a great baseball past, but now more teams, especially in the SEC give a crap about baseball now and are building new stadiums etc. Shoot, look at the SEC in the last few years... Florida and Vandy won the CWS,,,, 2 years ago Miss. St. won the CWS... last year Ole Miss won the CWS and they won't even make the SEC Tournament this year!
Easier said than done in this day and age. Not likely. New coach generally means a rebuild and lot of kids would want to transfer where they can win right away.
congrats to N Greenville on their Regional win the other night....hit a 3 run HR in the bottom of the 9th to win 6-5....dude that hit it now has the All-Time Career Homerun Record in Div. 2 with 76...hats off to him....good job coach
I get that. The SEC has always been a powerhouse though. Are there one or two teams that have stepped up, sure. But we're usually not playing those teams in the NCAAT. I'm not saying we have win 50 regular season games. But we should be in Omaha at least once in 5 years. We should be in the NCAAT every year. We should host a regional 4 out of 5 years, and host a super 2 of 5. What's happened to our program is sickening.
Would love for that to happen but its a big ask based on our performance the past few weeks and the status of our pitching staff. Hitting could snap out of it starting today but pitching is not in the position to do the same, unless a Michael Roth type comes out of nowhere.
That won't change my opinion that he should be fired if we don't make it to Omaha. I don't care what the preseason expectations were. He's responsible for those lowered expectations.
I wouldn't even hold the coach to an "Omaha or else" standard. The postseason is too much of a crapshoot, anything can happen. But the standard needs to be regional hosts every year, competing for SEC championships every year. If you do that, the tournament will take care of itself.
I would agree for someone that's hosting every year and competing for Championships. Kingston is not doing that.
For sure. I wasn't trying to say Kingston should be retained, he's clearly not met the standard Carolina baseball should require. He's not even met the standard of his predecessor.
Yep. Makes you appreciate Tanner's 16 years even more. He took over a program coming off of 3 straight conf losing seasons. Won the East 6 times, 4 SEC Championships, 14 NCAAT appearances, hosted 9 regionals, hosted 6 supers, 6 CWS appearances, 2 runner ups, 2 championships. He had 5 50 win seasons. That's how far we've fallen.
