Shewmake, thanks for proving my point. One guy in the last several years and no one recently out of HS.
coloradoag69 said:
There's no doubt that baseball is the hardest to recruit for. As was stated you average less than 0.5 scholarships per roster player, I believe the NCAA requires that every play receives at least 0.25 scholarships, the MLB drafts can take away scholarship players before they arrive on campus and again after they are juniors or worse, after their sophomore year if they turn 21 by a certain date.
We also play in a brutal conference with few easy conference games. I hope I'm wrong, but I think a one-year turn around so we are SEC contenders next year will be very difficult.
EMY92 said:
Each of those schools have off years. A&M has been very consistent, that's why we have the 3rd longest NCAA playoff appearance streak.
This is, LSU is almost as bad as we are.
BeatHellOutOfTU said:
This is Tadlock or bust for imo
85AustinAg said:
The thing about Tadlock though (conference affiliation aside) - is his ability to get his teams to Omaha. I don't care what conference you are in it takes a special kind of coach to do this continually.
Not so fast my friend..Jebber said:
So Tadlock is a Tech alum. He's not leaving. Next
Spyderman said:Not so fast my friend..Jebber said:
So Tadlock is a Tech alum. He's not leaving. Next
I have a feeling the roster will turn over quite a bit especially with the new transfer rules.TxA&Mhunter said:
Can you honestly say that you would expect a coach to come in and take what's here now presently add some or quite a few transfers...
And immediately compete with Vanderbilt, Florida, Mississippi State, and Arkansas for the championship In year one?
I'm not gonna say it's impossible put the roster would pretty much have to turn completely over during the off-season with transfers to accomplish that...
Unfortunately the talent level has Severely eroded from a hitting stand point and the bullpen to the point where that would be required.
If we had the baseball pedigree of a Vanderbilt or the sips I'd agree. We don't. I don't think we can afford to take a chance on an Assistant. We need a proven HC - be that Vitello, Schlossnagle, Tadlock or a few others. We've tried the Assistant route and we risk falling even further behind unless we just so happen to pick a one in a million. We can't risk that.Quote:
the right hire, does not have to be a highly successful HC that has multiple conference championships and CWS appearances.
Wicked Good Ag said:
TAMU is a top flight job in the premier baseball conference. No question we will have some extremely good candidates interested. I don't know if you can get a top 10 coach to leave their current position
What I do think people overestimate is our facilities compared to many other programs especially in conference.
The analogy for facilities I make is like a poker game. You may have a top 15 facility but if the top 10 are all at your table then you are "sucker"
Schloss will come to A&M. Given his personal situation, he wants a fresh start. Expect Mosiello to follow, but not Saarloos.Alpha Texan said:I still think we could compensate enough, but I didn't know he's a Tech alum, so that's not gonna happen.Sq 17 said:Alpha Texan said:
I'd give it about 3 years of rebuild before I hope to have a good chance in year 3. College baseball gives freshmen a better chance to compete than football so it's not necessarily time to develop players so much as time to get the a foot in the state and gather talent.
That being said, for both his presence in state and what he has accomplished atIraqTexas Tech, I want to crack open the checkbook for Tim Tadlock.
Problem with hiring Tadlock , he is already well compensated. As a coach why would you take over a rebuild when you have been consistently getting to Omaha with your current team. He is also a tech Alum.
Possibly we could money whip the UVA guy or Schlossnagle
Apparently Schloss isn't going anywhere. I even feel like I heard A&M has talked to him before and there's no interest.
dermdoc said:
I think some of y'all are really underestimating how good the A&M job is.
85AustinAg said:If we had the baseball pedigree of a Vanderbilt or the sips I'd agree. We don't. I don't think we can afford to take a chance on an Assistant. We need a proven HC - be that Vitello, Schlossnagle, Tadlock or a few others. We've tried the Assistant route and we risk falling even further behind unless we just so happen to pick a one in a million. We can't risk that.Quote:
the right hire, does not have to be a highly successful HC that has multiple conference championships and CWS appearances.
Wicked Good Ag said:
TAMU is a top flight job in the premier baseball conference. No question we will have some extremely good candidates interested. I don't know if you can get a top 10 coach to leave their current position
What I do think people overestimate is our facilities compared to many other programs especially in conference.
The analogy for facilities I make is like a poker game. You may have a top 15 facility but if the top 10 are all at your table then you are "sucker"
dermdoc said:
I think some of y'all are really underestimating how good the A&M job is.