Lance Uppercut said:

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Show me a.1st year head coach.......in the SEC who had a better 1st year. You might find a couple out 9f the hundreds.

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Chris Lemonis went to the CWS with MIssissippi State in his first season.
Rob Vaughn went to a regional in his first season at Alabama.
Vitello won more games in the SEC in his first season at Tennessee.
Biano won 17 games and went to a regional in his first season at Ole Miss.
Corbin was 2nd in the East and won 14 SEC games in his first year at Vanderbilt.
Steve Bieser, the prior coach of Missouri, won more SEC games than we did in his first 2 seasons there
Mark Kingston, the prior coach at South Carolina went to a super regional in his first season
Chad Holbrook, the coach that preceded Kingston at South Carolina, also went to a super regional
O'Sullivan won 17 SEC games and went to a regional in his first season at Florida
Van Horn went to a regional in his first season at Arkansas
Jay Johnson won 17 games and went to a regional in his first season at LSU
Mainieri won one more game that we did in his first season at LSU
Wes Johnson went to a super regional in his first season at Georgia
Mingione went to a super regional in his first season at Kentucky

If the argument was only for guys who are in their first head coaching role, Johnson and Mingione both fit that description, although Johnson has been coaching since 1997 and Mingione since 2002.

Edit-- And Childress won 13 games and went to a regional in our first season in the SEC, a year after Wacha and Stripling went pro plus only having Jace Statum and Cole Lankford return to the 1-9 lineup as a player with significant prior year experience (and each of them had less that 50 at bats in 2012).

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Ok, now do all the 1st year head coaches with bad 1st years, you can start with Votello!!

If he's staying some form of announcement would seem appropriate given how the year played out. Mainieri got one.

trouble said:

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Or because there's no reason for an announcement that you aren't firing someone.

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It's possible. If so it's very short sighted to not state he's staying given the public hubbub about his potential firing. But of course that short sightedness is also very possible given our administration.

I've moved from 65% he stays (where I was earlier week) to 70% he's gone at this point.

You will know tomorrow.
If the Ags make a regional, he stays.
If not, he's gone.

REMARCH11 said:

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Ok, now do all the 1st year head coaches with bad 1st years, you can start with Votello!!

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You're not helping whatever illogical point you're trying to make.

Especially since we've had the exact "Votello" discussion he apparently desires several times already.

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Fat Bottom Squirrels said:

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I want to build a pool at my house.

All my neighbors say I HAVE to hire this contractor because he's the best. Even though he's never actually built a pool before.

I hire him anyway and give him the absolute best and top of the line materials and everything he needs to work with and be successful.

He screws it up so bad that the pool is non-useable.

I sure hope this same contractor is around when I'm ready to build another pool at my new house.

Texas A&M logic.

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Thought it was strange I hadn't seen you anywhere when before you couldn't look at a thread without you all over it so I checked. Two weeks almost to the hour from your last post. Guessing you were watching that clock for a two week ban to be up so you could come back and troll. Let's see how long they let you stick around now that we don't have a team playing anymore for you to laugh at.

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I mean attack the messenger all you want. But what do you think about the message?

She's 100% right.

To be honest with you I stopped reading most of that they say. Just thought it was weird he was all over every thread ****ting on the Ags which has a lot of followers right now. All of a sudden they were back.

So if the self-loathing posts are what you're looking for just put alerts on them because they're a horn troll and you'll love every post they make.

Don't think his comment was at her pool logic as much as it was her prior bleeding and the subsequent ban. And then on top of that the additional slap on the wrist yesterday for lying about the reason for the ban. ...but I could be wrong.

Only if Schloss comes back too

"Pool Logic"

I'm taking notes. Please elaborate

Go read fat squirrel's hypo. It was about pool construction . Nothing more.

trouble said:

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Or because there's no reason for an announcement that you aren't firing someone.

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Come on trouble. You don't even believe this one.

OrangeAlert said:

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You will know tomorrow.
If the Ags make a regional, he stays.
If not, he's gone.

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Hope you are right. I am very down on our AD. Dont expect him to have stones to spend this money to fire Earley. We shall see.

The only thing I ask is if we are going to fire Earley we better have the coach wrapped up now. I do not want to fire him and enter a search blind. tu showed us it's possible.

Cen-Tex said:

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The testimony from Jace during the LSU post game interview spoke volumes and sealed it for me. Every coach deserves more than 1 year to build their program. That is the boilerplate in sports. I believe Earley has the baseball rsum to improve on the 2025 A&M team and should have the chance to do it. I enjoy reading the responses by posters in this forum. Most are knowledgeable, good in articulating an argument, firm in their beliefs, plus I learn a few things. Unfortunately, if Trev Alberts, et al, utilized the posters on TexAgs in the decision-making process, we'd be hiring new head coaches every year. MHO

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What did you expect him to say?

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trouble said:

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Or because there's no reason for an announcement that you aren't firing someone.

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Come on trouble. You don't even believe this one.

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That we won't make an announcement or that we aren't firing Mike

The only question is... do you think that over the course of this season and this upcoming offseason that Earley has learned and will grow into a better, even great coach?

Most of the things that Earley struggled with, IMO, are signs of a young coach trying too hard/doing too much. Those are things that are learned over time. If you don't think Earley is willing to learn and grow as a coach and thinks he did a great job this year and isn't willing to do the work on himself, then yeah get rid of him.

But, when you hire a first year head coach, you should expect first year head coaching mistakes.

trouble said:

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LB12Diamond said:

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trouble said:

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Or because there's no reason for an announcement that you aren't firing someone.

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Come on trouble. You don't even believe this one.

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That we won't make an announcement or that we aren't firing Mike

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Imagine if every program announced the coaches and staff they don't let go.

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trouble said:

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Or because there's no reason for an announcement that you aren't firing someone.

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Come on trouble. You don't even believe this one.

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Remember when you were fired up about the idiots that were saying Schlong was leaving?

That would be kinda hilarious if it was SOP for every single school, like if last year, Danny White came out all serious in a press conference:

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"Hello press, I've gather you all here today to announce that after winning the national championships, we do indeed plan to retain Tony Vitello's services for next year. We considered firing him, but then we blinked and that thought was idiotic. Thank you for your time, I don't think you need to ask any questions"

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swimmerbabe11 said:

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The only question is... do you think that over the course of this season and this upcoming offseason that Earley has learned and will grow into a better, even great coach?

Most of the things that Earley struggled with, IMO, are signs of a young coach trying too hard/doing too much. Those are things that are learned over time. If you don't think Earley is willing to learn and grow as a coach and thinks he did a great job this year and isn't willing to do the work on himself, then yeah get rid of him.

But, when you hire a first year head coach, you should expect first year head coaching mistakes.

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Except nothing will be easier for him roster-wise and support-wise than it was this season. He'd have to show some incredible growth to support continuing with this experiment.

swimmerbabe11 said:

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The only question is... do you think that over the course of this season and this upcoming offseason that Earley has learned and will grow into a better, even great coach?

Most of the things that Earley struggled with, IMO, are signs of a young coach trying too hard/doing too much. Those are things that are learned over time. If you don't think Earley is willing to learn and grow as a coach and thinks he did a great job this year and isn't willing to do the work on himself, then yeah get rid of him.

But, when you hire a first year head coach, you should expect first year head coaching mistakes.

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when you hire a first year head coach you should expect first year IN GAME mistakes. You shouldn't expect a total lack of fielding ability and terrible plate approaches.

I'm not at all shocked that he left a pitcher in too long, then overreacted and had a quick hook.

I am shocked that they appear to have never fielded a bunt before. Or tried to bunt before. ...but maybe I should be because it seems he just hired his friends who, aside from JK, also have very little to no experience.

It's not just a question of if he learned from his mistakes, but did he learn how to fix them. He's so far behind where we need him to be I don't think he'll have it all figured out for several more years. Can't afford to wait that long.

TAMU1990 said:

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The only thing I ask is if we are going to fire Earley we better have the coach wrapped up now. I do not want to fire him and enter a search blind. tu showed us it's possible.

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Not likely to have one wrapped up as A&M has more class then Texas and would not undermine a team still in the hunt.

I didn't have the laugh/cry, but that one deserves it.

I think most reasonable fans would agree, but the sheer lack of fundamentals we saw weekly is why a lot are pushing for a change. If it was him simply mismanaging the bullpen or lineups that would be one thing, but we were the more undisciplined and least fundamental team almost every week. And what is unfortunate is that speaks to the assistants more than him, but ultimately he has to answer for it.

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That would be kinda hilarious if it was SOP for every single school, like if last year, Danny White came out all serious in a press conference:

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"Hello press, I've gather you all here today to announce that after winning the national championships, we do indeed plan to retain Tony Vitello's services for next year. We considered firing him, but then we blinked and that thought was idiotic. Thank you for your time, I don't think you need to ask any questions"

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That's a very small handful of schools where the general public assumes the Coach will be ****-canned. Those are the only ones that should make some kind of statement. ... Like USCe did.

It's pretty obvious that UT didn't need to announce Tony was returning. Or for texas to announce Schloss and Weinergobbler are returning this year.

But A&M, USCe, etc, it makes perfect sense to state that publicly.

Sean98 said:

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I didn't have the laugh/cry, but that one deserves it.

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I have dealt with both Horns and Aggies, and can categorically state, there is NO comparison in the level of arrogance, entitledness, and primadonna-ness. TU wins that one hands down or should I say, "Horns Down."

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Sean98 said:

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I didn't have the laugh/cry, but that one deserves it.

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I have dealt with both Horns and Aggies, and can categorically state, there is NO comparison in the level of arrogance, entitledness, and primadonna-ness. TU wins that one hands down or should I say, "Horns Down."

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I can almost guarantee you that we are actively talking to coaches at this very moment. So while I agree that much of what your say is true, it's not like we're exactly innocent. Nor should we be.

Sources to cite?

i was jus makin a joke mr seriouspants

It's that time of year.

Currently working on, and will have a pretty sizable Coaching Buzz piece later tomorrow or Tuesday morning.

— Kendall Rogers (@KendallRogers) May 25, 2025

Zero. But it's malpractice if you're thinking of changing coaches and you're not actively talking to coaches.

If Trev isn't he should be fired immediately. In which case I hope our President is actively talking to ADs about the job.

swimmerbabe11 said:

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i was jus makin a joke mr seriouspants

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I know Darlin'. But the idiots don't know that and the last few days it seems that they dominate the masses.