dermdoc said:

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LB12MEEN said:

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Hey Derm

What are your baseball peeps saying about getting Nolan back. Seems like a solid hire to me!

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All good.
I had a call from a former player right when it was announced. All he said was Doc, we got the best recruiter in college baseball.

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Any good dirt on the backstory?

tjack16 said:

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Skip Johnson had OU… a school who has never cared about baseball ever and don't even now to the same spot we just were in 2022 (CWS finals beating us twice), and a regional host this year.

He would be good here but I'd prefer an ACC or SEC guy

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Glad to see I didn't post something dumb about him. I wanted the Virginia coach badly

I never compared him to POS or said he would do the same thing. Read what I stated again.

I actually said I thought he would be focused on beating Texas if we had hired him.

I said the ones making the decisions might be skeptical bc of his ties to Texas.

Come Out Roll said:

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In reality, Skip was the head man for 10 years at OU.....10 years.....

How long would any of these knuckleheads posting put up with not winning it all for 10 years? Most if not all would've been saying "he's Childress 2.0" or some such.....

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Look at the difference in resources though. We invest much more in baseball than OU does that's for sure.

I agree though, this program is at a new level of expectations and anyone hired here will be expected to compete for championships well before ten years

JDay said:

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I'll eat crow. Skip Johnson is obviously an elite coach. I am not 100% sure A&M would have made the tourney with his regular season resume in '22 or '26, but he got to the final both years and won a natty. Nothing else matters.

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He won if with very little support. Someone who cares more about baseball is going to poach him from the Sooners. He is a great coach, and I was hoping we would have hired him back in '24.

Lets not discount that this was one of the best runs to finish out a season. They beat three major conference champions in Ga Tech, Kan, and UGA, not to mention disposing of top ten UNC to win it. Team was hot at the right time and they have a very good pitching coach/head coach.

LB12MEEN said:

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I never compared him to POS or said he would do the same thing. Read what I stated again.

I actually said I thought he would be focused on beating Texas if we had hired him.

I said the ones making the decisions might be skeptical bc of his ties to Texas.

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That is true he would be ready to destroy them every year. Good for him hes a good guy and due to win it all for once.

Come Out Roll said:

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In reality, Skip was the head man for 10 years at OU.....10 years.....

How long would any of these knuckleheads posting put up with not winning it all for 10 years? Most if not all would've been saying "he's Childress 2.0" or some such.....

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I don't everremember Childress making it to the final series. Skip did that in 2022 after 6 years at OU. Edit: See post below this one. He actually made it to the finals after just 4 actual played seasons.

That's what we are saying, His experience has him winning at a high level the last 4 years

We were looking for a coach in 2024 when he had the experience and won, not in 2016 when he had none. So your preface does not align with actual understanding of the reasons.

Skip just won it all with 17 Texas kids on his roster. With his time at Texas and OU it is no surprise he knows how to recruit Texas.

There were several solid reasons in 2024 that we should have focused more on him.

I went to the series in Norman this year, and got an email from the OU ticket office this morning, asking if I wanted to buy GA season tickets (I guess their few hundred reserved seats are sold out) for $163.16. They are supposed to be adding seating this offseason (was already in the works).

They called me, lol.

Imagine the backlash if we hired Skip Johnson and that unknown James Madison coach Curt Cignetti in 2024

twk said:

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I went to the series in Norman this year, and got an email from the OU ticket office this morning, asking if I wanted to buy GA season tickets (I guess their few hundred reserved seats are sold out) for $163.16. They are supposed to be adding seating this offseason (was already in the works).

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I lived in OKC for a decade and have many OU alumni as friends. Only one said anything about winning the World Series. He even admitted to me that there is no support for baseball, hence why Ags outnumber OU fans in their own ball park.

STILL, they have 3 titles under their belt and have won a Big 3 Championship im the SEC prior to us. Sour grapes? YES. I can't stand them. I ridiculed them for riding tu's coat tails to get in the SEC, but now I eat crow because they won in a sport that we care about and they don't. They did it with very little support from the alumni. We have an awesome game day atmosphere and massive student and alumni support. As for results, we are in the butt sniffing stage as quoted in Dazed and Confused, and OU has titles.

Ozamataz Buckshank 01 said:

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twk said:

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I went to the series in Norman this year, and got an email from the OU ticket office this morning, asking if I wanted to buy GA season tickets (I guess their few hundred reserved seats are sold out) for $163.16. They are supposed to be adding seating this offseason (was already in the works).

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I lived in OKC for a decade and have many OU alumni as friends. Only one said anything about winning the World Series. He even admitted to me that there is no support for baseball, hence why Ags outnumber OU fans in their own ball park.

STILL, they have 3 titles under their belt and have won a Big 3 Championship im the SEC prior to us. Sour grapes? YES. I can't stand them. I ridiculed them for riding tu's coat tails to get in the SEC, but now I eat crow because they won in a sport that we care about and they don't. They did it with very little support from the alumni. We have an awesome game day atmosphere and massive student and alumni support. As for results, we are in the butt sniffing stage as quoted in Dazed and Confused, and OU has titles.

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Did you notice how many empty seats there were? It was disappointing, to say the least.
Think back to 2024 and standing room only!

OrangeAlert said:

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Ozamataz Buckshank 01 said:

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twk said:

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I went to the series in Norman this year, and got an email from the OU ticket office this morning, asking if I wanted to buy GA season tickets (I guess their few hundred reserved seats are sold out) for $163.16. They are supposed to be adding seating this offseason (was already in the works).

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I lived in OKC for a decade and have many OU alumni as friends. Only one said anything about winning the World Series. He even admitted to me that there is no support for baseball, hence why Ags outnumber OU fans in their own ball park.

STILL, they have 3 titles under their belt and have won a Big 3 Championship im the SEC prior to us. Sour grapes? YES. I can't stand them. I ridiculed them for riding tu's coat tails to get in the SEC, but now I eat crow because they won in a sport that we care about and they don't. They did it with very little support from the alumni. We have an awesome game day atmosphere and massive student and alumni support. As for results, we are in the butt sniffing stage as quoted in Dazed and Confused, and OU has titles.

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Did you notice how many empty seats there were? It was disappointing, to say the least.
Think back to 2024 and standing room only!

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Are you talking about the College World Series? I didn't see it, but OU fans and alumni don't travel for baseball. They don't have to travel for softball because the World Series is in OKC.

Todd Butler should be getting more mention. He is the one that constructed most of that team. Skip Johnson's recruiting days are way behind him. But I'm happy for both of them as well as the 17 players from Texas.

ColoradoMooseHerd said:

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Come Out Roll said:

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In reality, Skip was the head man for 10 years at OU.....10 years.....

How long would any of these knuckleheads posting put up with not winning it all for 10 years? Most if not all would've been saying "he's Childress 2.0" or some such.....

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This, A&M fans would have fired Skip years ago.

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But how would Skip do in 10 years with the resources A&M puts into baseball and the recruiting base we have?

I'd venture to say it would be a really good tenure