Outside of the O’Connor hire…
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Not defending Selmon, but that’s kind of like saying, outside of circumnavigating the globe, what else did Magellan really do?
O Connor wasn’t that great of a hire number one. It was good but expected. Number two. Selmon has elevated NIL, resources, better marketing and overall coolness, etc , etc.
If he doesn’t fire Loser Lard Lebtard, then you can complain. But Selmon has crushed it so far.
If he doesn’t fire Loser Lard Lebtard, then you can complain. But Selmon has crushed it so far.
Wow, so you clearly think that was all Selmon, not our boosters paying whatever it takes and program/facilities selling O’Connor to make a statement like that.
I must be too old because I’m not seeing the coolness. I’m seeing our brand dying.
It’s the best hire in any sport in Mississippi state history. It’s embarrassing hear some of our fans be so stupid.
If a coach is hired that is successful, Selmon has nothing to do with it. If a coach is hired that is not successful, it’s all Selmon’s fault.
This is just moving the goalposts. Selmon is the AD. He gets the credit. I don’t see you coming after the boosters for your issues with Lebby. Be consistent.
We made O’Connor the 2nd highest paid baseball coach in the country and we have the best facilities in the country. Getting him under those circumstances is not as earth shattering as you seem to think.
We were told by many folks that Selmon didn't have **** to do with hiring BOC. Selmon admitted to knowing nothing about baseball. So does he get credit? Serious question? I don't know.
In not saying Selmon had nothing to do with it. But In the circumstances that was a very very easy hire to make.
It’s exactly as earth shattering as I think. The last coaching hire cycle for baseball we were fed the same line. We are elite. We will hire an elite coach. I think O’Connor was on the list then. We ended up with Chris Lemonis and nobody knew who he was.
Because he's taken our NIL from zero to close to $40MM next season and was turned down by just about everybody last time he tried to hire a coach because of that zero number and our shitting situation. He's got to go make a real hire now.
But many people said prior to Lemonis being fired that Selmon wouldn't be making the baseball coach choice.
You do realize during last coaching cycle we offered $600k and O’Connor got $2.9M? But it had nothing to do with that, it was all Selmon, huh?
Selmon is the AD. He gets the credit for the hire. Period.
Funny you should ask, plenty apparently.
I'm not on the Selmon bandwagon, but that simply isn't true. Selmon hustled on that deal. He lined up the red carpet treatment and got the money in place pretty quickly. With that said, I wish he had that same energy when it came to hiring football coaches.
“Hello, this is Brian O’Conner, who’s this?”
“Hi coach I’m a bulldog club member at Mississippi State and I was wondering if you’d be interested in being our baseball coach. I have pretty good season tickets and I met our AD once!”
“You are exactly the person I was expecting a call from!”
Y'all forget why Selmon was hired to begin with....he was the backbone at OU for fundraising, and damn good at it....he was also, at the time, the AD on deck.....We need(ed) more money at the time (and now) more than ever before, or we need(ed) to get out of the SEC.....he has done an incredible job at fundraising.....he also had almost everything to do with getting BOC hired for baseball, and that has come straight from BOC's mouth.....
Hate him on the Lebby hire all you want, but just be glad the intense baz-tard is in Auburn and not in Starkville right now....
No AD or coach is going to be perfect....I like ZS and stand by him......Lebby has lost me.....
Greg Byrne took a part of my soul when he left MSU....that one still stings
Hate him on the Lebby hire all you want, but just be glad the intense baz-tard is in Auburn and not in Starkville right now....
No AD or coach is going to be perfect....I like ZS and stand by him......Lebby has lost me.....
Greg Byrne took a part of my soul when he left MSU....that one still stings
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