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Post by brandon on Jun 19, 2022 9:15:02 GMT -6
Hahahha The fact that it was brought up that we might be waiting on a coach that is still playing in the World Series is comical. The reason all of those other schools has hired a coach already is because their AD had a short list of potential candidates unfortunately that is not the case with our current opening is being handled as interviews continued this past week. You do realize that he was talking about assistant coaches right? I don't know who all are candidates, all I've heard this whole time is Matt. If we are interviewing coaches, what's wrong with that? We are not to the level where we can make a list, call them and pick the best off the list, there are only a hand full of baseball programs in the country that have that luxury.
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Post by unabalch on Jun 19, 2022 10:22:08 GMT -6
There are no assistants still playing that would take a 100k pay cut just to be a head coach… let’s be real!
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Post by unabalch on Jun 19, 2022 10:29:28 GMT -6
I’m just being a realist, it’s taken forever which tells me it’s a weak pool of candidates, meanwhile our best arms and our best players are in the portal and are heading to other schools. You can say that’s a good thing but on a team that won only a few games in a sub par league you would like to keep our best to build on. However by the time the hire is made the pool for players will be very limited which will put us deeper in the D1 hole. Please tell me where that thought process is wrong?
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Post by brandon on Jun 19, 2022 10:48:00 GMT -6
There are no assistants still playing that would take a 100k pay cut just to be a head coach… let’s be real! What college baseball assistant coaches are making that kind of money? It's hard to find football assistant coaches making that outside the P5...
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Post by lion1979 on Jun 19, 2022 10:54:23 GMT -6
I’m just being a realist, it’s taken forever which tells me it’s a weak pool of candidates, meanwhile our best arms and our best players are in the portal and are heading to other schools. You can say that’s a good thing but on a team that won only a few games in a sub par league you would like to keep our best to build on. However by the time the hire is made the pool for players will be very limited which will put us deeper in the D1 hole. Please tell me where that thought process is wrong? Our “best players” went 12-41 and didn’t sniff the conference tournament. If they want to leave, best of luck to them. Have faith that Looney knows what he’s doing and that he’ll hire the best man for the job. He hasn’t given us a reason not to..
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Post by brandon on Jun 19, 2022 10:56:24 GMT -6
Alabama, Missouri and Kentucky combined coaches salaries is 1.5 mil... What's UNA got to pay to get an assistant from a decent program? Id say not much more than what we pay...
Do I think we should pay more? Absolutely, I'm not arguing that, but I am also being a realist because this will be the first year in D1 that we actually draw money from the conference, we was not eligible during the transition.
That's why the plan to steadily increase the athletic budget was put into place starting the first year after the transition.
I'm sure the new baseball coach will have a similar deal as basketball and football. You improve, you get more money the next contract.
From what I have been told, the plan is to more than double our athletic budget over the next 7-10 years. That's substantial and will put us with KSU at the top of the ASUN and close to the top of CUSA.
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Post by unabalch on Jun 19, 2022 12:43:01 GMT -6
All but 1 school in SEC is public knowledge online… average SEC assistant salary is around the same as what we pay our head football coach… I know it’s a hard pill to swallow but we were 288 out of 301 RPI this past year!! And as far as our best players only winning 12 games the fact is we didn’t have enough good players and now we have less than we have … to think someone coming in will flip roster in 1 month is irresponsible to think. All I am saying is process is taking way to long while other programs are continuing to pass us.
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Post by unabalch on Jun 19, 2022 12:50:25 GMT -6
And btw we have schools in our state and across country who’s assistants make more than our head coach in football, some of these comments should be telling how out of touch we are with reality
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Post by brandon on Jun 19, 2022 13:26:51 GMT -6
And btw we have schools in our state and across country who’s assistants make more than our head coach in football, some of these comments should be telling how out of touch we are with reality What comments... Yes it's public record and that's what I looked at... The fact that we pay football that little is a problem... I agree with most everything you are saying btw, but I also realize where we are in D1.... We need to take steps in winning the ASUN, then take steps to making it to more than just a regional when we do. All I'm saying is, let's see how things play out with a BRAN NEW AD and then judge how things are going.
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Post by firstandtenn on Jun 19, 2022 17:31:15 GMT -6
And btw we have schools in our state and across country who’s assistants make more than our head coach in football, some of these comments should be telling how out of touch we are with reality Losing the top 2 arms to the portal definitely will hurt. They gained a ton of experience through 2 losing seasons here, now someone else will get the benefit of that experience. And it’s much harder to replace quality arms then it is to find hitters or improved defense. It will be interesting to see how they do at their next stops.
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Post by unabalch on Jun 19, 2022 18:17:19 GMT -6
Appears we have lost our best hitter to the portal as well.
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