Wattson Stumjack said:
Aggies2009 said:
That works both ways though.
We fired Sumlin because people wanted blood and that left us with the worst buyout in the history of sports and like an orange bowl win to show for it.
We fired Kennedy after he doubled our programs history of Sweet 16 appearances because people wanted blood and that left us with hefty bill for a couple second round appearances.
We fired Childress and got schloss who WAS an improvement, but was a couple of Omaha appearances worth the damage it will have done to our program?
We got rid of Evan's cause people wanted blood and she is setting records at her new stop while we can't get out of a regional or super regional while paying a lot of money for Ford.
People keep clamoring to fire coaches and that leaves us with expensive replacements who never really do much either.
This is terrible logic. The only one worth a damn is the first one. We essentially traded Sumlin for really expensive version of him.
Kennedy had parkinsons and only made the tourney twice in eight years. He was really bad when he didn't make the tourney. You don't keep that kind of coach around. Buzz was fine by our standards but overhyped and paid for what he actually accomplished.
Childress missed the tourney in his last year, and ****nagle made the the semis of the CWS his first year and took us the finals last year. As long as we fix the earley mistake, well early on, then it was worth it.
Evans was done and falling farther and farther back in the conference every year. She hadn't made it past regional round in several years when she was fired. Ford may have choked this year but she made supers last year and was a no 1 national seed this year. Evans just made the postseason at her new school this year. She didn't make it out of regional this year. I don't think she is setting records.
I agree the answer isn't always to moneywhip coaches but the answer it is sure isn't keeping around middling or declining coaches.
I mean other than ****nagle we've never hired a sitting a college baseball HC before. We always promoted assistants or from lower ranks. I think chandler was HS coach.
Our biggest problem is we don't view coaches as the mercenaries they are. We get attached to them and then get angry when people recognize they are not very good. If they had better options, they'd leave A&M in an instant for bigger guaranteed contract somewhere else.
I think a big problem with earley is no one can point to a real bright spot that says he will be a good coach anytime soon. Its more like we cannot fire him after one year or its too much money to fire him. That is the most depressing thing. No one really buys him being capable anytime soon.
I guess I just don't get it. We traded Sunlin for a more expensive Sumlin. One with the most embarrassing deal and buyout in the history of college football.
We traded Kennedy who was more feast/famine who had more postseason success. I was told many times here that we needed to get rid of Childress because making the tournament every year didn't mean much and we'd rather have a guy who goes to Omaha then misses the tournament the next year. That's kinda what Kennedy was.
We paid Buzz top 10 money to never finish higher than the top 32. And he only made the tournament 3 of the 6 years he was here with humiliating losses in 2 of those years. Kennedy won the SEC at least.
Schloss was an upgrade for sure. But was hiring a **** human being worth it? Look at our program now.
As far as Ford goes, who cares what seed we got? We got a #1 seed and finished with the same result that Evans did. We just made history in doing something no team had ever done along the way when it comes to losing.
Point I'm making is that we spent a lot of money to buy out/fire coaches to hire new ones. Only one actually panned out with improvements, and he left our program after 3 years, leaving us with the mess we have now.
