Skip and Tadlock for the dynasty run

Yes it is my friend.

histag10 said:

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TMF said:

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I think it's a great hire to hire a successful coach at a program that has poor facilities and little interest. It's like Saban recruiting the kids that could play but had not already had the best nutrition and training facilities before he knew he could raise their potential.

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So would you have considered Mark Stoops a great hire?

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Stoops wouldn't have been a terrible hire from a coaching perspective. The knock on him was could he recruit? Is that a concern with Skip? I genuinely don't know

Good question. No idea but NIL could smooth things over would be my guess as long as he is not an A-hole to play for.

Skip is a good coach and a great person. He's not a liar who lacks integrity. He is respected by his peers and umpires. He'd be a really good hire.

OU key stats:

2024 - 40-21; .311 ba; 73 HR; 93 SB; .968 Fld%; 5.04 ERA
2023 - 32-28; .284 ba; 47 HR; 114 SB; .970 Fld%; 5.95 ERA
2022 - 45-24; .293 ba; 73 HR; 145 SB; .972 Fld%; 5.38 ERA
2021 - 27-28; .287 ba; 63 HR; 46 SB; .969 Fld%; 5.84 ERA

These numbers will get crushed in the SEC. But hopefully the book is right that OU's support for baseball was garbage. He is liked and thought highly of in baseball circles and is a strong relationship/leader type that has actually done a lot more with less. And with A&M's resources, NIL and being in the SEC, etc will help him acquire elite/better talent and depth of talent.

Hopefully NIL will bring the big lumber.

JDay said:

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Character matters, but if it matters more than championships Rob Childress should still be here. No one cares how good of a dude you are when you don't win. That's a fact.

If Skip Johnson is the hire, where do you rank him the pecking order of SEC baseball coaches?

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It would be interesting if he was at a comparable program with our level of facilities, recruiting reach, and fan/admin support. I think that we're better at all of those than OU is in baseball. I know that he recruits well and competes nationally without all of the things that come with Aggieland.

If he was a good enough coach he would already be there.

He is 57. If he was an elite coach he wouldn't be at OU.

drthoop said:

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Also don't speak in absolutes. Someone said he hasn't been contacted yet. How do you know? Maybe he has.

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Trust me, as of that post. He had not. 100%. Feel free to check my posting history if you want to doubt me.

Status change on Skip.

I've heard he has interviewed already.

My brother played for Tim Tadlock and I hung out with Skip Johnson at the Juco World series back in 2003. Those 2 are good friends and had some of the best JUCO baseball teams in the nation. They created tons of MLB players. Skip's recruiting skills are top notch and he would be back in the central Texas region where he started it all. I don't see how Tim would ever leave his school he played at but Johnson ain't getting paid that much and with the kind of recruiting we can pull I believe he would keep us in the World Series year after year. I don't really follow sports anymore so I don't know any of the other potential coaches but from what I know of Skip and him working with one of the greatest of all time, Augie, that tells me all I need to know right there if Augie wanted him.

Would love to hear what Ryan Brauninger thinks of hiring Skip Johnson.

If he says it is the best the Aggies can do, I will accept that and manage my expectations from here forward.

Let's reverse this then...don't base the Kentucky guy on what he did this past season....

JDay said:

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No chance. His name has never come up for any major job ever. He would be a downgrade from Pierce.

This is more concerning to me. Guys like you who seem to have inside info justifying what would be a disastrous hire.

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So how has this disaster made it just as far as Schloss?

monarch said:

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Let's reverse this then...don't base the Kentucky guy on what he did this past season....

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The guy has won more at Kentucky than anyone in the last 40 years

It took 6-7 years to get where he was a few weeks ago. We need somebody to start out at mid 40's and higher.

There's more that just one on this thread.

cevans_40 said:

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Anybody remember this?

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I have been waiting

And this is why I listen when dermdoc speaks.

Don't listen to most of the people on the baseball forum that try and control the threads with their "vast" baseball knowledge.

…… well, well

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JDay said:

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Olin's article is very concerning. I sure hope this wasn't written to prepare the fanbase for an epically underwhelming hire. Skip Johnson is not the answer. His record against decent competition is terrible. Got swept at home by Lamar and skull drug twice by UConn in the regional they hosted.

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Weird that all the baseball contacts I receive texts from have urged us to go after Skip.

Includes coaches, players, and committed recruits.

Fascinating that when we hired Schloss they wanted Bakich who was at Michigan at the time.

Think I will trust them.

Sorry.

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That almost sounds prophetic. Happy Father's Day!