Hiring Earley was a huge mistake

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Hubert J. Farnsworth
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In reply to dBoy99 • 12:43a, 3/1/25
dBoy99 said:
1. Why would anyone believe a thing that worthless, lying, sack of **** said?

2. The fact that you don't know when or if A&M said "sorry we are not building a stadium" proves you don't know what you're talking about.


The fact you believe in anything this school has to say is something else. Keep believing. One of these days you will get sick of losing. Schloss was promised a baseball palace and it never happened. Just because he went to Texas doesn't mean that isn't the truth. He was talking about it his first year here. A&M reneged.
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In reply to Hubert J. Farnsworth • 12:47a, 3/1/25
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I guess you missed the discussions last year about the plans. You can't plan and build overnight.

It was in the planning stages before he left.

A&M never reneged yet the texas coach was planning his exit as early as April 2024.

Words have meaning. But you obviously want to blame A&M instead of the texas coach. So I'm done arguing. You win.

Oh and what I believe in or get sick of has zero impact on the W-L record of Aggie teams.


I am part of the problem and you're the victim...
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In reply to Hubert J. Farnsworth • 12:50a, 3/1/25
Hubert J. Farnsworth said:
dBoy99 said:
Hubert J. Farnsworth said:
dBoy99 said:
Hubert J. Farnsworth said:
dBoy99 said:
Hubert J. Farnsworth said:
trouble said:
Hubert J. Farnsworth said:
Aggies will be lamenting not giving Schloss a stadium renovation, that he was promised, for years to come.


It was never about this.


Keep telling yourself that.


The texas coach was gonna leave the first chance he got.

Once he ran thru the wife swapping community in BCS he started looking for greener pastures.


A&M reneged on their promise of a baseball palace to Schloss. He would still be here had the dumbasses in charge kept their promise.


When exactly did we reneg?

Was it in April 2024?


Exactly what I said. He was promised a baseball palace.


So when did we tell the texas coach "sorry, we're not building you a new stadium?"


Where is it? Schloss was here for 3 years and nothing ever happened. I bet he gets a new stadium at sip before bluebell gets renovated. I bet bluebell only gets renovated in response to them getting renovated. Thats how A&M works. They only react to the sips.


Seems to me sippie had to react to our renovation of Kyle, not the other way around. Nice venues certainly help in recruiting but it is only part of the puzzle. If sippie is able to firmly set plans, get funding and actually start a renovation of the Disch in a three year period of time then you have a valid point. All you have now is speculation that we were somehow stringing him along believing he wouldn't leave. RC had to work tirelessly to get the funding for the Blue Bell renovations. I get times have changed with our move to the SEC but even that is not an ever producing money tree and baseball is hardly a high revenue producing sport.
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Hubert J. Farnsworth
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In reply to dBoy99 • 12:54a, 3/1/25
dBoy99 said:
I guess you missed the discussions last year about the plans. You can't plan and build overnight.

It was in the planning stages before he left.

A&M never reneged yet the texas coach was planning his exit as early as April 2024.

Words have meaning. But you obviously want to blame A&M instead of the texas coach. So I'm done arguing. You win.

Oh and what I believe in or get sick of has zero impact on the W-L record of Aggie teams.


Jesus Christ. Quit being a child and say "Schloss". He was the best coach this baseball program has ever had. I have zero faith in A&M to ever get it right. The people in charge are morons.
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12:54a, 3/1/25
Good Lord ... we're a few games into the season. Tonight's game was 3-2!

SHEESH.

It always tickles me when I see posters who have apparently never encountered a lick of adversity in their lives.
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In reply to Great2BeAnAGGIE • 12:56a, 3/1/25
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Yeah cuz all those veteran coaches we've brought in have earned us so much hardware
Give me the guy who shoots for excellence and fails over the guy who shoots for mediocrity and succeeds.
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In reply to Aggie Apotheosis • 1:05a, 3/1/25
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Aggie Apotheosis said:
Good Lord ... we're a few games into the season. Tonight's game was 3-2!

SHEESH.

It always tickles me when I see posters who have apparently never encountered a lick of adversity in their lives.


This is different and you know that. Our #1 baseball team lost to Cal Poly, Texas State, Arizona most recently. It ain't looking good
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In reply to W • 4:44a, 3/1/25
W said:
Trev needs to have a quick hook

for the millions A&M is spending on its baseball program

We need to have a quick hook on Trev. What has he ever done again?
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In reply to houstonaggie76 • 4:53a, 3/1/25
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houstonaggie76 said:
W said:
Trev needs to have a quick hook

for the millions A&M is spending on its baseball program

We need to have a quick hook on Trev. What has he ever done again?


You guys are nuts laying this on Trev. All of yall would have been screaming as the bulk of last year's team transfers out. Get real. Now, if Albert's doesn't act if this season completely craters, I'll get in line with you.
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5:52a, 3/1/25
Earley will get this figured out.

The hitting slump will end.

The pitching relief will be fine.

Don't give up on this coach or team.
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In reply to Hubert J. Farnsworth • 7:30a
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Hubert J. Farnsworth said:
Aggies will be lamenting not giving Schloss a stadium renovation, that he was promised, for years to come.
You kidding me? POS was leaving A&M even if we gave him the Taj Mahal.
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In reply to Hubert J. Farnsworth • 7:39a
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And A LOT of the fan base bought it, hook, line, and sinker. Now, I'm rooting for the guy when the base is selling like Randolph and Mortimer Duke.
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7:41a
How did track leap frog baseball as a priority They could win 39 straight natties and I wouldn't care and they got everything they wanted and quicker than baseball.
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7:44a
And I don't think Schloss would have stayed with a new stadium fast tracked. Texas was always higher in his mind. We could have built him three stadiums and he would have still gone to his bed buddy
The fact that it wasn't built or fast tracked gave him a get out of jail for free card.
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In reply to Sean98 • 7:44a
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Sean98 said:
I don't think you're right. But I have zero data to prove you wrong so far.


I avoid being a hate in life and being overly reactionary unlike 95% of America today.

But this is a valid statement. And this team looks BAD. Well, they certainly do not look ANYWHERE close to a Top 10 baseball team right now.

Half our hitters appears to have started the season in a slump. Jace honestly looks completely clueless at the plate. He is swinging at a ton of bad pitches and that goes for many others. Earley as the batting coach prided himself on plate pitch selection and ability to take a high percentage of walks and force pitchers into long pitch counts. Not happening this year.

Team has basically an improved hitting lineup and looks completely different from last year.

Whatever the hell is wrong, needs to change before SEC play. At the end of the day, it they go 500 in non-conference but then manage the right the ship within SEC play...I will take it. Hell, fall out of the Top 25 as this team is NOT playing anywhere near a top ranked D1 baseball team right now. Get that crap over with, take the media beating and start playing some damn big boy baseball!! Seems all the accolades have amounted to pressure that is overwhelming this entire team.

Roughly only 2 weeks till SEC opener and that is gonna come very quickly. Let's go Ags. Let's go Earley! We all so want your story as 1st year HC to be one made for the movies!
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In reply to W • 7:54a
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Trev needs to have a quick hook

for the millions A&M is spending on its baseball program
Well we fully guaranteed his 5 years at $2.2M per.

If we aren't buying out G or Joni, we aren't buying out an AD for over $5M.
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8:02a
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I agree that the entire reason Schloss left, wasn't because we slow played the stadium re-do. Schloss was put on this "ad-hoc/make believe" search committee for the new AD hire. Just like football, the search committee had zero input. He got butt hurt over this and seemed to plan his exit soon after the announcement of Alberts.
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8:02a
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An old Japanese proverb goes something like "if you get on the wrong train, get off at the next station. Otherwise your return trip will be much more expensive".
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8:04a
Earley needs to get past NIL paid, egos and being players 'friends'. He has to shake up the lineup or the season is lost. Bullpen and fielding errors a whole different issue. Hitting seems to be HR ball or nothing at times...we appear to lack confidence of making contact / putting the ball in play (1st inning last night decided the game IMO...3 strikeouts by middle of the lineup w bases loaded...really!!).

He has to manage the pitching staff better (esp middle relief and closers). Not seeing progress at all and appear to be playing tight and pressing (not loose). If you watch OU, LSU, and even tu...they are getting better as they are progressing.

Team is following paradigm to a Fisher highly recruited team that read too many headlines how good they are when they aren't at the moment.

Personally disliked being #1 pre-season ranked (regardless of names) with a new coach as have to have a different mentality of being hunted vs. hunting and proving oneself. Don't see it, but team is pressing way too hard.

Not a top 15-20 team as playing and will fall dramatically (as they should).
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In reply to Hubert J. Farnsworth • 8:06a
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Who?


I am part of the problem and you're the victim...
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8:12a
Woe i didn't realize it was already April.
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In reply to 90ags • 8:42a
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Being a head coach is a lot different than being a position/process coach.
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9:01a
I don't think Early is why we aren't hitting. He was the hitting coach. If all I knew right now was our opponents run total, I would think we are undefeated. Pitching is fine. Hitting is terrible
I hate tu. It's in my blood.
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In reply to Tadpole • 9:47a
Tadpole said:
Get real. Way too early to.make that call.


Every time we get beat, or play terribly, this is the reaction. Some of you will be saying this in mid-April. This is not an Omaha caliber team. Hell, the way we're playing, we're not a Hoover caliber team. We can't hit, we can't pitch (aside from weekend starters), fielding is bad, body language sucks, decision-making is poor. As it stands, there's not much of anything to be excited about.

Sad thing is, I'm an optimist and you can't tell. At some point you have to be a realist. I think we're just an average team, at best, this year.
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We have talent, it just has to come together, it will.

It's not like we're stuck with a bunch of nobodies or talentless scrubs.

We are 3 weeks into a 4 month long season. Be concerned, yes - but don't throw in the towel.


I am part of the problem and you're the victim...
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In reply to dBoy99 • 10:25a
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dBoy99 said:
Great2BeAnAGGIE said:
It was a mistake.
TAMU should never and I repeat never be your first head coaching job!
But hey… we kept some players.


Since you know the future, can you give me the winning lotto numbers for Saturday night's drawing?
No, give PM me those numbers first, please!
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In reply to dBoy99 • 10:26a
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dBoy99 said:
We have talent, it just has to come together, it will.

It's not like we're stuck with a bunch of nobodies talent scrubs.

We are 3 weeks into a 4 month long season. Be concerned, yes - but don't throw in the towel.
This
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In reply to houstonaggie76 • 10:27a
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houstonaggie76 said:
W said:
Trev needs to have a quick hook

for the millions A&M is spending on its baseball program

We need to have a quick hook on Trev. What has he ever done again?
good point
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In reply to Hubert J. Farnsworth • 10:35a
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Hubert J. Farnsworth said:
dBoy99 said:
I guess you missed the discussions last year about the plans. You can't plan and build overnight.

It was in the planning stages before he left.

A&M never reneged yet the texas coach was planning his exit as early as April 2024.

Words have meaning. But you obviously want to blame A&M instead of the texas coach. So I'm done arguing. You win.

Oh and what I believe in or get sick of has zero impact on the W-L record of Aggie teams.


Jesus Christ. Quit being a child and say "Schloss". He was the best coach this baseball program has ever had. I have zero faith in A&M to ever get it right. The people in charge are morons.
You have no idea what you are talking about saying that someone who left a school after a couple very good years (oh btw, the players were already here when he took over he didn't bring them in) is the greatest coach who has ever been here. I was a player back in the day and Tom Chandler told me himself personally that Mark Johnson's work at A&M with the resources he had would never be topped.

So stick that in your pipe and smoke it like I would have smoked. you if you ever stepped to the plate while I was pitching. Schlonginagle is supposed to be "shocked" that he was treated poorly for going to the one school that would guarantee it. That tells you without talking baseball who the best coach "ever at A&M" was not!
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In reply to swimmerbabe11 • 10:37a
swimmerbabe11 said:
Woe i didn't realize it was already April.

You know, I "woe" is a typo, but it feels appropriate.

There are definitely issues that need to be solved, but most of those can be solved in time to go on a run. We are still in "way too early to predict" season. Now, if that Alabama series looks super sidewise and Vandy tromps you, then lets start sounding alarms and looking at why things are the way they are. Your schedule is an absolute gauntlet, so it really needs to tighten up by the end of March otherwise its going to be a grim season.
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In reply to SBDavis87 • 10:38a
I really hope you weren't an English or Journalism major.
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In reply to Hubert J. Farnsworth • 10:45a
Hubert J. Farnsworth said:
dBoy99 said:
I guess you missed the discussions last year about the plans. You can't plan and build overnight.

It was in the planning stages before he left.

A&M never reneged yet the texas coach was planning his exit as early as April 2024.

Words have meaning. But you obviously want to blame A&M instead of the texas coach. So I'm done arguing. You win.

Oh and what I believe in or get sick of has zero impact on the W-L record of Aggie teams.


Jesus Christ. Quit being a child and say "Schloss". He was the best coach this baseball program has ever had. I have zero faith in A&M to ever get it right. The people in charge are morons.
Wait, he didn't legally change his name to POS?
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In reply to swimmerbabe11 • 10:51a
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It was quite the unhinged rant
Give me the guy who shoots for excellence and fails over the guy who shoots for mediocrity and succeeds.
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In reply to vwbug • 10:53a
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vwbug said:
How did track leap frog baseball as a priority They could win 39 straight natties and I wouldn't care and they got everything they wanted and quicker than baseball.


Track got a new indoor because football wanted the space.
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In reply to Capitol Ag • 10:54a
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Capitol Ag said:
Aggie Michael said:
Makes you wonder what the leaders at A&M are doing. We need a clean slate. Obviously these generals with no experience running a university are not working out and are not able to elevate A&M academically or athletically. They appear to make poor hires and decisions. A&M is not military branch nor a political branch. It's a results oriented group in which you need to achieve.

Need either business people or professional academic administrators to come on and then make the hires based on their backgrounds and ability to elevate A&M to secure our investments.

It's always the same story: spend a ton of money, get new facilities but most of the time they make poor hires / decisions (sometimes they nickel and dime people at the end for key roles) at the most critical aspects so you end up underachieving annually.

Need to take the Warren Buffet approach - fire all the bad leaders and hire goods and things will turn around. Got to start at the top.


Yet Albert's literally got us a massive media rights deal, the largest ever in college sports history. Yet, our leadership is the problem…


Yet, we have only won ONE major men's national championship in the entire history of this university and it was almost 80 years ago. So, yes… we have a leadership problem. Who cares about all the money we have if we can't win jack squat
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