Now turned down by Savage.. Who is there 8th choice?
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So, who all now have turned them down?
quote:I am not sure anyone they target would surprise me, unless it is a juco coach or Childress.
Some may be rather suprised at who they are making a run at.
Im sure it will surface soon one way or another.
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Who would be your honest to goodness top choices if the A&M job were to be open and which ones do you think A&M would be able to hire?
quote:Right, and that's sort of my point of asking the question. The only thing they're really doing differently is trying (at least per rumors) to get a well-paid coach and we're hearing about it. I can't laugh at them for that.quote:
Who would be your honest to goodness top choices if the A&M job were to be open and which ones do you think A&M would be able to hire?
It is very tough to get a well-paid baseball coach to move from a good gig these days. You would have to money whip him and even then that might not work.
quote:They've now fired longtime coaches in football, men's basketball, and baseball because they all stopped winning enough...so I'm not sure about their not caring about winning. Just previous to that they fired their women's basketball coach for not winning. That's the coaches of biggest 4 sports on campus all getting fired in the matter of about 4 or 5 years and they all one thing in common--they stopped winning.
Meh, I disagree.
Look at programs that actually win games and they are the programs that make intelligent hires and then give them the support and resources need to be successful. Not necessarily those that "shoot for the stars."
Longhorns always beat their chest about being the destination job and are more concerned about demonstrating that they are the premier program by making a splash hire than actually making the right hire. They are uniquely more concerned about their status and perception than they are about winning.
quote:Well a coach that you don't hire obviously doesn't count as an intelligent hire.quote:They've now fired longtime coaches in football, men's basketball, and baseball because they all stopped winning enough...so I'm not sure about their not caring about winning. Just previous to that they fired their women's basketball coach for not winning. That's the coaches of biggest 4 sports on campus all getting fired in the matter of about 4 or 5 years and they all one thing in common--they stopped winning.
Meh, I disagree.
Look at programs that actually win games and they are the programs that make intelligent hires and then give them the support and resources need to be successful. Not necessarily those that "shoot for the stars."
Longhorns always beat their chest about being the destination job and are more concerned about demonstrating that they are the premier program by making a splash hire than actually making the right hire. They are uniquely more concerned about their status and perception than they are about winning.
Obviously hires have to be intelligent to work out. But which of these guys would not be an intelligent hire?
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John Savage ucla
Pat Casey oregon st
Paul Mainieri lsu
Kevin O'sullivan florida
Jim Schlossnagle tcu
not sure about Tim Corbin vandy
Dan McDonnell louisville
quote:It's not that they're trying and failing..
Meh, I disagree.
Look at programs that actually win games and they are the programs that make intelligent hires and then give them the support and resources need to be successful. Not necessarily those that "shoot for the stars."
Longhorns always beat their chest about being the destination job and are more concerned about demonstrating that they are the premier program by making a splash hire than actually making the right hire. They are uniquely more concerned about their status and perception than they are about winning.
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Well a coach that you don't hire obviously doesn't count as an intelligent hire.
I would consider the top four coaches in college baseball right now to be
Kevin O'Sullivan
Brian O'Connor
Tim Corbin
Jim Schlossnagle
Based on success over the past couple of years.
Of those four guys, they had a COMBINED total of two years head coaching experience before their current jobs.
Those are intelligent hires. They found the right guy, a guy that nobody had heard of, and that guy won more games than any big name hire they could have possibly made.
Longhorns just took a list of the top 10 coaches in college baseball and checked them off one at a time as they got rejected. That is not an intelligent or strategic approach.
quote:There lies the issue haha They have been bad for what they consider a while now, so they want results now! Ha
then be patient.
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We are 0-6 in Omaha since Granger won there. His winning streak ended the very next day.