What’s going on with our search for a pitching coach?
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We can get guys in the portal. Players have been moving this week.
And if you're a fan of OSU's pitching coach, you'll probably be happy in a couple days.
I don’t know enough about him to have an educated opinion. People’s opinion I value seem to think he’s a home run hire. He’s got an enormous task ahead though. Has to recruit way more talented kids than we currently have while developing what’s currently there to its absolute maximum potential. And developing the current talent to its full potential still may not be all that great. It’s a damn mess.
His recent results have been very mediocre. Last 3 years regionals, they’ve given up 14, 3, 13, 5, 20, 10, 15, 7, 6, & 18 runs.
I don’t care what he does. I just want him gone, and if this is what we can expect from our new AD he can go with him.
Good chart. And just FYI on “Dead period” from the NCAA site:
While the term “dead period” makes it seem like all recruiting stops during this time, that’s actually not the case. Athletes and coaches are still allowed to communicate via phone, email, social media and other digital communication channels.
Genespage believes we are getting Muscara? Do they also believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny?
They do not. For some reason Rose threw his name out as an example of a guy you would be willing to wait on.
For some reason I think many, including myself, are going to be severely disappointed in this hire.
I think it’s going to be the Okie St coach. We’ll strike out with the super regional coach & he’ll be the fallback. Not a bad hire, unless we’re dumb enough to give him a 2-year guaranteed contract, but nothing to get excited about.
Hard to do better than Walton with the position Lemonis is in.
Think I found our problem…there’s no evaluation period on the calendar.
If we can get him, he is well worth the wait. He would definitely be my Plan A.
Other than this year, which is outstanding, he's just been a little above average. In 4 years at Maryland, the best he did was 4th in conference ERA, and last year at Wake, he was 5th. Doesn't really matter though. He's not coming to Starkville unless we offer him head coach job.
Sounds like the search went exactly as we thought it would when we started this process
Do you really think he just left his cell phone in Starkville and is just going off the grid?
People worry about all the wrong things. A pitching coach search is not Lemonis jetsetting across the country and doing face to face interviews with dozens of candidates. In fact, no search of any kind in any industry works like that anymore.
An SEC head coaching job in every sport is 24/7. He’s still going to be doing texting / social media stuff with recruits / portal guys and touching base however is currently necessary with the coaching search (even though there is a good chance that’s a done deal already).
LOLOL at the lack of knowing anything that's going on, in this thread.
2 years guaranteed for a good pitching coach for like $500k - $600k per year is not going to be a problem for us at all, if that’s the route we go. Not sure why anyone would be worried about that.
If Lemonis is fired in 2024, new guy can decide to keep the pitching coach - which might happen if its a good hire. If not, costs us $500-$600k and that’s it. And if we make a good hire, there’s a pretty strong chance Lemonis doesn’t get fired anyway.
Its still unreal to me how bad our baseball program has been the last 2 seasons when you look at teams this year like Oral Roberts, Indiana State and so on that we are way worse than. You almost have to try to be as bad as we've been given the resources we spend on the sport.
I'll take a little above average and a fantastic, top rated year this year over Lemonhead's last 2 seasons which couldn't find above average with a long range telescope.
I'm not sure what his issues were at Maryland, but his pitchers were amazing this year pitching in that little league park against some very good ACC competition.
Same Indiana State that got swept by Kentucky, Michigan State and TCU (the only P5 weekend series they played)? Interesting. They had a cakewalk regional too.
Oral Roberts is just a pretty good team this year, which is why they came through against big boy competition. It happens in college baseball.
B1G competition. How can we take your opinion seriously when you can't even get that basics right?
Because the pitching coach is at Wake this year (Maryland previously) and they compete against the ACC. And I really don't give a 17 if you take my opinions seriously. Maybe you need to read a little better and work on your own basics.
https://godeacs.com/news/2021/7/2/b...e-addition-of-corey-muscara-to-coaching-staff
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Bottom line is we have been way worse the last 2 years than a lot of programs that really don't even try very hard to be good.
Selfishly I hope it goes all Summer so we get more of these.
Hiring Nichols HC to be the pitching coach is the equivalent to hiring Indiana’s HC to take over as HC
The positive is he turned us down! He was going to bring 4 arms. We were so close to being the next Nichols St. But oh well. Maybe next time
Now Walton may be out. June 12th and no PC.
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