Slocum on a mobile said:
I don't agree that this is a good move. One bad season does not a bad coach make.
Slocum on a mobile said:
I don't agree that this is a good move. One bad season does not a bad coach make.
both Rice and UH should give him serious consideration. And he should be interested in those jobsSchizoAg said:
I will be sad to see Childress go. If he wants to keep coaching, there are plenty of places that would love to have him, either as a head coach or a pitching coach.
(It is not necessary for you to ridicule me for this opinion, I know I am in the minority.)
W said:both Rice and UH should give him serious consideration. And he should be interested in those jobsSchizoAg said:
I will be sad to see Childress go. If he wants to keep coaching, there are plenty of places that would love to have him, either as a head coach or a pitching coach.
(It is not necessary for you to ridicule me for this opinion, I know I am in the minority.)
these people have to be trolling.Captain Pablo said:Slocum on a mobile said:
I don't agree that this is a good move. One bad season does not a bad coach make.
"Not bad" shouldn't be our standard
LOYAL AG said:Slocum on a mobile said:
I don't agree that this is a good move. One bad season does not a bad coach make.
You can't be serious. His contract was allowed to expire. That's not one bad season. Had we not lucked into a 4-seed opponent in a home super regional in 2017 I'm guessing he'd have been let go after 2019. The talent level has fallen consistently since 2016.
Since 2016 we've gone
3-seed
3-seed
3-seed
Covid
No regional
This is an easy decision.
LOYAL AG said:W said:both Rice and UH should give him serious consideration. And he should be interested in those jobsSchizoAg said:
I will be sad to see Childress go. If he wants to keep coaching, there are plenty of places that would love to have him, either as a head coach or a pitching coach.
(It is not necessary for you to ridicule me for this opinion, I know I am in the minority.)
It would be ironic to see him land in a job where the recruiting budget would basically force him to recruit Houston.
W said:
more numbers...
Childress was 7-5 vs. Vanderbilt/Corbin in the regular season. Only 3-9 Florida/Sullivan.
6-9 vs. South Carolina.
10-5 vs. Georgia.
10-4-1 vs. Missouri.
6-5 vs. Kentucky.
9-6 vs. Tennessee.
12-12 vs. LSU/Mainieri. 11-13 vs. State.
13-10 vs. Alabama
13-11 vs. Auburn
9-15 vs. Arkansas/Van Horn
10-13 vs. Ole Miss/Bianco
Yes, that caught my eye and was part of my thought. I expected we would have won at least 2 out of every 3 games against those two teams.W said:
the records vs. Alabama and Auburn are somewhat disappointing too.
the Tide have only been a regional team in 2 of the 8 years since A&M joined the SEC.
Auburn has been a regional team in 4 of the 8 years.
1 or 2 additional wins vs. those teams in the right year could have improved A&M's postseason seed
duddleysdraw88 said:
He needs to be GONE after the last out today!
Over a month ago, an everyday starter replied to the question "How's it going?"...... first words out of his mouth.... "I'm done with baseball"
There's more but I'll stop there!
Texas A&M fifth-year senior Hunter Coleman on the impact ahead coach Rob Childress has made on him: pic.twitter.com/d6uJ5IXMyJ
— 𝕋𝕣𝕒𝕧𝕚𝕤 𝕃. 𝔹𝕣𝕠𝕨𝕟 (@Travis_L_Brown) May 22, 2021
Luke The Drifter said:duddleysdraw88 said:
He needs to be GONE after the last out today!
Over a month ago, an everyday starter replied to the question "How's it going?"...... first words out of his mouth.... "I'm done with baseball"
There's more but I'll stop there!
Hate to break it to you, but most of the TCU players cannot stand Schlossnagle. Same with DBU players not liking Heefner. Most of the Texas players don't care for Price. And yes, I have first-hand accounts to back up these statements.
I'm not defending Childress...just letting you know most college baseball players don't care for their head coach. Most college players have grown up being coddled by helicopter parents who forked over tons of money to get their kid on some "elite" travel baseball team. They've gone to the most expensive camps, been provided with top tier personal hitting/pitching coaches, and they've often been surrounded by high level talent. Then, when they get to college, have to work hard, don't get the playing time they think they deserve, can't pick and choose their teammates, don't win every game, and don't have momma and daddy there to fight their battles for them, a lot of them are suddenly "done" with baseball. It happens to hundreds of kids in every program every season.
My perspective on "done with baseball". I had a baseball coach in HS who played his football players, period. I stuck it out, never missed a practice, for 3 years til he left before my senior year. There's no way I was going to say "I'm done with baseball" although I never saw the field until I was a senior under that coach. We "somehow" managed to go to Regionals my senior year when only one school/district made the play-offs, go figure ex-coach. If I would have the option, I would have left for another program of course. So, I do not understand any such comment.Quote:
Over a month ago, an everyday starter replied to the question "How's it going?"...... first words out of his mouth.... "I'm done with baseball"
Lance Berkman is setting himself up to be the next Rice as an assistant at St. Thomas in Houston, imo.W said:both Rice and UH should give him serious consideration. And he should be interested in those jobsSchizoAg said:
I will be sad to see Childress go. If he wants to keep coaching, there are plenty of places that would love to have him, either as a head coach or a pitching coach.
(It is not necessary for you to ridicule me for this opinion, I know I am in the minority.)
titanten85 said:
Actually since his contract is up, he is technically not fired. Just chose not to renew his contract. This has been in the making for a couple of years. Contracts usually get extended because the old adage that a coach can't recruit if he doesn't have several years left on his contract so his recruits have some assurance that the coach will be with the program for the duration of their scholarship. I have always thought this was a bunch of crap and just causes you to have a large buyout if you do decide to fire the coach before the contract runs out.
_mpaul said:
Basically, to do something special, Childress had to have an outstanding starting 3 pitchers. If he didn't have that, or maybe 2 really strong starters and a strong closer, we were mediocre.
I disagree. CWS teams are usually good to great in all three, or at least two of the three, of pitching, hitting, and fielding. In the Childress years where the pitching hasn't been there, we've never had the hitting to make up for it. Generally, we have been no better than an average fielding team.LOYAL AG said:_mpaul said:
Basically, to do something special, Childress had to have an outstanding starting 3 pitchers. If he didn't have that, or maybe 2 really strong starters and a strong closer, we were mediocre.
You make it sound like that's unusual. The difference between CWS and regional host is depth of quality pitching. Pretty sure that's a universal truth in baseball.
Mark Fairchild said:
Hunter was a student of our youngest daughter. She said that in her teaching career in the G&T program in high school (Midland Lee) she had never had a finer, more intelligent young man as Hunter. She also said she never had more caring and committed parents than his. So proud that he and Ty are AGGIES.
im sure 2015 was worse. seems we had alot more hit batters from our pitchers this year thoughWall Streeter said:
I'm wondering if this squad set a regular season record for errors? We were less than good in every phase of the game with hitting and bull pen most obvious, but I haven't seen much discussion on how terrible our defense was this year.
