Correct, I thought all along the timing was terrible. Firing a coach with just a few weeks left looks cheesy.
I really don't think it made a hill of beans difference. He would have been fired 2 weeks later regardless. I'm much more concerned about who the replacement is going to be.
Came here fully expecting a politically correct take of some sort. Pitching coach might be a more painful conversation than that!
You've lost your ever loving mind. You are actually saying we should have kept the pitching coach responsible for this disaster of a team the last two seasons for another season? Hell to da naw naw, he should have been fired after last years disaster but you were satisfied with him this year and say he should have been kept another? You're just trolling now.......
Totally agree on the portal but we just don’t have a ton of arms so we need more for him to have a chance with. Outside of Cade last year the only guys with the most chance to get outs were our portal guys. But i realize thats probably bc they had been coached at some point.
Well, Adidas does use 50 shades of Maroon.
Yeah. And we're going to be fine next year. Cijntje, Loftin, Siary, Tapper, Gibbs, Forsythe all a year older. Dohm back, Nate Williams. Then Auger and Simmons back.
But those are just names. None of those guys accomplished anything this year except Dohm giving us maybe an inning or two a weekend. And someone is going to get hurt. And two are coming back from TJ. If my job were on the line I’d want to hammer the portal.
This idea that we always have a ton of returning 'SEC weekend starters' is bunk. That's a luxury like 10% of teams have. Kids grow up and develop. And if Foxhall was truly this big 'problem' as so many say, then pretty much anyone should be an improvement.
Fitting.. we're all masochists for being MSU fans anyway.
Uh, had we gotten Skeens, we'd been a solid tourney team and possibly hosting.
Goat's just being Goat. The real liability in hiring a pitching coach is a lame duck head coach.
While I won’t argue that with Skenes we would have a few more wins, he did average 6.1 IP. Which means our bullpen would have 2.2 to blow it.
It might a lure for elite pitching coaches if AD presents it as a "HC in waiting".
Problem with that is, the pitching coach has to do a good enough job to be sure he gets the head coaching job after all. But has to do a bad enough job to be sure the current coach actually gets fired. It's a very fine line. In the real world, "head coach in waiting" is a terrible idea unless you've got a long-time head coach & top assistant and the head coach is going to retire in the next year or two.
If the AD is willing to give that title he failed at his job in May
For most programs, it would give them 3 extra weeks to get the word out and find someone, make calls to agents, coaches you trust to find candidates. Trouble is, thats the trouble, they are working somewhere and aren't willing to take the chance to come here for 1 miserable year. Anybody available is either fired, old and washed up, still playing (why leave a tourney/CWS team for us?) or young and looking to move up from Millsaps or Belhaven. As for cheesy, the fired coach looked much cheasier with his and his staffs performance the last 2 seasons than the perception of him getting the heave 3 weeks early. Anybody that looks at facts and stats can see that
