Earley is fired if they can't win the SEC tournament.

DWren said:

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I think it's time some of yall accept this team is not as talented as you thought it was.

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and all of college baseball as well? Unanimous number one by coaches and writers - I guess they are all dumb asses? This fail is 100% at Earley's feet.

I'm sure Trev will do something stupid, like all Aggie coaching hiring/firing is.

Everyone is Fire Earley Fire Earley and i get it but the people who talk about this talented lineup coming back i just dont see it




2024

Grohovac
Chestnutt
Montgomery
LaViolette
Appel
Camarillo
Burton
Schott
Sorrell
* Kent for Montgomery after injury

2025
Only from that list

Grohovac (6 games)
Sorrell (half of season)
Kent
Schott (nursing injury all season in DH role)
LaViolette

none did better than last season all regressed and that is the main question you ask

Because the big three of our expectations none were met at all if you consider Sorrell for half a season only

I dont know what will happen and I dont know if fired or not but I do know we will overpay and be on the hook for 7 years plus worth of contracts in a non revenue sport so you better hit it out of the ball park

and dont forget to add in NIL money from donors as well

Wicked Good Ag said:

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Bad season of course but if you fire a coach after only one year who do you expect to take the job that you can likely get to come ?

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I think "we have never fired a coach after 1 season, but he went from preseason #1 to no post season and got swept at home by the worst team in conference history" would assuage the concerns of anybody we'd care to hire.

DWren said:

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I think it's time some of yall accept this team is not as talented as you thought it was.

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I get that there's talent on the roster but with the injuries to Sorrel and Grahovac and then Schott doing his best to play injured it's not close to the same lineup. Then with Stewart and Sdao missing the entire season the pitching took a huge hit. It's unfortunate how this season played out but that's not on Early. Bad luck at Olsen. It's a season derailed before it ever really started.

People forget that Trev is the guy who fired Scott Frost in Week 3, which cost $15M, when the buyout would drop to $7.5M 3 weeks later in week 6.

He'll do whatever he is told to.

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RED AG 98 said:

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And while we might not have best team in America talent, we are still one of the most talented teams A&M has ever fielded and certainly better than 4 sweeps, one by an all-time poor team.

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That Missouri series is one of the most unexplainable, straight-through-the-looking-glass sports weekends I've seen in a long while.

Missouri was so invigorated by sweeping us that they got outscored 50-11 this weekend by Mississippi State...they ended up 3-27 in conference play.

3 motherfarking wins and all three against us in our own park. Yuck.

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And not just freaky wins on weird plays. They flat outplayed us the last 19 innings.

Players get the credit, coaches get the blame. Absolutely hilarious to me some of you insinuating the players are even remotely on the same level of culpability as Earley. Just laughable.

Our friends in austin were absolute garbage for the previous several years, a new coach comes in and throws a makeshift roster together at the last minute and wins the conference in year 1 and will be in the mix for the cws and possibly nc. On the other hand, we have an absolutely loaded roster per just about every source out there and end up collapsing in historic fashion to end up one of the worst teams in the league. Yeah. Surely it's more the players sucking and not the fact that we have the worst coach in the conference.

It's so beyond laughable that anyone would even remotely put this embarrassment on anyone other than Mike Earley.

I understand everyone wanting an immediate change that provides some hope vs. our current feelings and as someone who went to Omaha the last 2 times and witnessed it in person, I GET YOUR FRUSTRATION. The only thing with an emotional knee jerk reaction of "fire him now and get an upgrade", then ok who are you for sure getting? Give me a name that guarantees you do better for the future. Honestly other than Schloss and now Vitello, I can't think of a slam dunk hire that guarantees success. And even out of those 2 names, Vitello had issues his first year. A lot of other names like Vaughn or O'Connor would be good but they are struggling too and if they came here and had a tough first year a lot of you would be saying the same stuff that you are now about Earley.

I've seen people say "I KNOW he won't succeed." No you don't. Hindsight is 20/20. And I think a 2 year span is way better to determine what he's really like than 1. This year was up and down vs all down so I think you can see next year if it's any better and like I said, with a short leash. People also say "Top names will come here, just get rid of him." Well that argument hasn't held with multiple Aggie sports HC positions so until that's proven, don't use it as an answer.

I'm not saying we have to enjoy or endure what has happened this year because I sure don't but I do think that unless we could get a slam dunk hire, let's see what Coach Earley can do next season and then make a determination. It just makes me crazy when so many of us have super emotional reactions that get in the way of rationale. Hopefully the AD will make the right decision based on all the facts of the situation, a lot of which none of us probably even know about. That's all just my opinion. I just want the best for Aggie baseball, whatever that is.

"Just be patient, just wait till next year!" - The eternal mantra of Texas A&M men's Big 3 sports

Honestly don't see how we can afford not to fire him - donations and NIL will dry up if we keep him to "save " money.

sixfoot said:

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What a waste of talent!

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write the check…all hat no cattle and no U

OA_02 said:

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Players get the credit, coaches get the blame. Absolutely hilarious to me some of you insinuating the players are even remotely on the same level of culpability as Earley. Just laughable.

Our friends in austin were absolute garbage for the previous several years, a new coach comes in and throws a makeshift roster together at the last minute and wins the conference in year 1 and will be in the mix for the cws and possibly nc. On the other hand, we have an absolutely loaded roster per just about every source out there and end up collapsing in historic fashion to end up one of the worst teams in the league. Yeah. Surely it's more the players sucking and not the fact that we have the worst coach in the conference.

It's so beyond laughable that anyone would even remotely put this embarrassment on anyone other than Mike Earley.

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It's insane how fast the script flipped between a&m and tu - year one.

sixfoot said:

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Nah, we'll lose most of the talent. If he can't win with this team, he'll be worse next year.

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I'm afraid your correct. And this realization has dictated my thinking going forward.

We need a competent Division 1 head baseball coach. Based upon this year's results, it's fair to say that Earley does not fit that description. Maybe he will be someday, but he's not right now. He should try again someday in a situation where he is not the players's buddy and indebted to them for his job, but it just isn't working in our situation.

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sixfoot said:

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What a waste of talent!

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write the check…all hat no cattle and no U

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This is a worthless response.

RED AG 98 said:

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Y'all keep saying Trev. He's doing exactly what his bosses are telling him to do -- stop spending money and cut the bleeding from the former AD.

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That includes a guaranteed 4 year, $4MM contract to a first year head coach. How is that saving money?

What is the going rate in the SEC? We got him at a major discount and tu is paying us the buyout….

I honestly cannot believe anyone would want to have him back next year.

Gidnik said:

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To quote someone somewhere
Most aggies can't even spell Earley correctly. Firing him now will cost aggies 3 million. Who is going to want to replace a guy that got fired after one season with a winning record.

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1. Who cares? Well, apparently you do, which is kinda funny. The gate keepers on this board and their constant "that's not how you spell his name" you all deserve a gold star sticker

2. Anyone looking for a 6 or 7 figure raise

twk said:

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We need a competent Division 1 head baseball coach. Based upon this year's results, it's fair to say that Earley does not fit that description. Maybe he will be someday, but he's not right now. He should try again someday in a situation where he is not the players's buddy and indebted to them for his job, but it just isn't working in our situation.

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I say retain him as a coach, just not Head Coach, and in so doing, we address the threats of an exodus of players, which seemed like the reason for his hire in the 1st place; also, we can claim he's "Head Coach in Waiting" (a la Muschump) so AT LEAST we're getting some return on our money. This way, he gets to learn & develop, & who knows, he might develop enough where we give him consideration in the future. Just my two cents...

Zero chance. Just doesn't happen and rightly so. You can't bring in a new guy and make him hire the old HC. No.

Ag in Tiger Country said:

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twk said:

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We need a competent Division 1 head baseball coach. Based upon this year's results, it's fair to say that Earley does not fit that description. Maybe he will be someday, but he's not right now. He should try again someday in a situation where he is not the players's buddy and indebted to them for his job, but it just isn't working in our situation.

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I say retain him as a coach, just not Head Coach, and in so doing, we address the threats of an exodus of players, which seemed like the reason for his hire in the 1st place; also, we can claim he's "Head Coach in Waiting" (a la Muschump) so AT LEAST we're getting some return on our money. This way, he gets to learn & develop, & who knows, he might develop enough where we give him consideration in the future. Just my two cents...

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He's really only qualified to be a Bat Boy at this point

RED AG 98 said:

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What is the going rate in the SEC? We got him at a major discount and tu is paying us the buyout….

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No one else in the SEC would have offered him a HC job. We outbid ourselves. He'd probably of taken a pay cut from being the hitting coach at tu for the opportunity to be HC at 37 years old. Not only that, we gave him guaranteed money.

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DWren said:

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I think it's time some of yall accept this team is not as talented as you thought it was.

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and all of college baseball as well? Unanimous number one by coaches and writers - I guess they are all dumb asses? This fail is 100% at Earley's feet.

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Exactly. The talent was there based on last year and the flashes of greatness this year against some top tier teams. But every single guy on this team regressed from last year. Prager and Laviolette lost a lot of money this year. The way things played out from last year to this year is 100% coaching.

Albers will just find someone who costs even less.

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DWren said:

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I think it's time some of yall accept this team is not as talented as you thought it was.

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I get that there's talent on the roster but with the injuries to Sorrel and Grahovac and then Schott doing his best to play injured it's not close to the same lineup. Then with Stewart and Sdao missing the entire season the pitching took a huge hit. It's unfortunate how this season played out but that's not on Early. Bad luck at Olsen. It's a season derailed before it ever really started.

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Seriously? Winning the Series vs Tennessee, Arky, & LSU proved they had plenty of talent to make the NCAAT. They had enough returning talent from an NCAA runner up team to be pre-season #1. Missing the NCAAT was inexcusable. Getting swept by an awful Missouri team at home was inexcusable. It is Indefensible to not be in the post-season. This may be very well be the first pre-season # 1 team to entirely miss the NCAAT. Perhaps someone could do research to see if that has ever happened before. If it has, it has to be extremely rare.

Any HC with a solid HC experience and resume is going to a definite upgrade. It doesn't have to be a 'whale'. Early has shown to be one of the worst coaches in college baseball. The bar to upgrade the A&M HC right now is a very low bar to have to jump. You fire him and then you go get the best coach you can. Whoever you get will be better than Early.

Earley was hired strictly to keep the roster together and make a run this year. Last year I thought it was worth the risk to bring all these guys back.

That experiment failed, time to move on.

According to ChatGPT

As of 2025, there has never been a preseason No. 1 team in NCAA Division I baseball that missed the NCAA Tournament until potentially Texas A&M in 2025.

Historical Context
Every other preseason No. 1 team going back at least 35 years has made the NCAA Tournament.

sixfoot said:

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According to ChatGPT

As of 2025, there has never been a preseason No. 1 team in NCAA Division I baseball that missed the NCAA Tournament until potentially Texas A&M in 2025.

Historical Context
Every other preseason No. 1 team going back at least 35 years has made the NCAA Tournament.

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That right there is exactly why you have to fire him. You hired a guy with no HC coaching experience and the result was arguably the worst failure in the history of college baseball with regards to actual vs expected performance given the roster talent.

99% of the time you give a coach more then 1 season but this situation falls in that special 1% category where you absolutely should do it and pull the ripcord quickly on what is obviously a hire failed experiment. Pull the rip cord quickly and move on.

I have empathy for Early but damn….they actually had despite a horrible start nearly recovered to save his job and then the baffling Mizzou weekend happened to pop that balloon.

clingers

They never change

I'm ok with either keeping him 1 more year OR getting a proven HC instead, I was just airing my thoughts on why we should try him 1 more year. I won't lose sleep either way lol.

Ag in Tiger Country said:

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twk said:

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We need a competent Division 1 head baseball coach. Based upon this year's results, it's fair to say that Earley does not fit that description. Maybe he will be someday, but he's not right now. He should try again someday in a situation where he is not the players's buddy and indebted to them for his job, but it just isn't working in our situation.

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I say retain him as a coach, just not Head Coach, and in so doing, we address the threats of an exodus of players, which seemed like the reason for his hire in the 1st place; also, we can claim he's "Head Coach in Waiting" (a la Muschump) so AT LEAST we're getting some return on our money. This way, he gets to learn & develop, & who knows, he might develop enough where we give him consideration in the future. Just my two cents...

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So, demote him?

He's guaranteed $3 million to be head coach of Texas A&M, but he's gonna give that up and take a demotion?