Baseball
- Thread starter Bubba Fett
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This is probably the most well-thought-out post on our baseball coaches since Tanner left the dugout that I have read.
Yeah, the Holbrook hire seemed very natural at the time. He just couldn't quite figure it out at SC as the HC. He's done well at College of Charleston. Pretty much got to win that conference tournament to make the NCAA in their conference and he hasn't done that yet but he hasn't really had bad seasons there.
Kingston...what I recall from that hire was a feeling of "I hope it works", but feeling skeptical. Not hating it, not loving it. But didn't know enough about him nor the search process. It was really more so the emptiness of information in the search process that lead to the skepticism. There was no real information and then suddenly this dude Kingston is the coach. After the coaching search that landed Muschamp my impression with the Kingston hire was this was what they had to take. More puzzling is that he was not let go after 2022.
With Mainieri I had the same fears as others. He can coach the game of baseball very well. But with the rapid changes in college sports was he ready to return and deal with all that.
Mainieri fits the SC retread coach hiring model perfectly. He won at Notre Dame and LSU and then retired. SC drug him out of retirement to coach. Anyone who is surprised this hasn't worked out hasn't been paying attention. Mainieri is 68 years old and has three more years on his contract.
I would like to see Landon Powell get a shot, but that is just me.
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Not taking BP before a game is criminal. If that is actually true. Imagine not taking practice swings before you play golf. No practice shots before a basketball game. Not throwing a football until you enter the game. Not drinking coffee before going to work. Not taking your pants off to take a shucks. Its all relative..
If truth were known, I believe RT had discussion with him on the job. Maybe he didn't want it....
I think the Kingston hire was Tanner scrambling to hire somebody after Kevin O'Sullivan played him to get a raise and facilities improvements at Florida.
If that is indeed what happened then Kingston was never going to work. That was similar the in the Muschamp hiring too. About had Kirby then UGA jumped. And that one I can understand, pursued the right dude but then his alma mater made an offer. SC wasn’t going to win that. But Rich Rodriguez was also interviewed. So on the other hand…
From what I read here, any coach South Carolina wants, South Carolina can have. All coaches in all sports nationwide are sitting by their phones waiting on the call from Donati. In fact, most keep a bag packed and a real estate agent on standby in case they get the call and need to move to Columbia.
In concert with the fact that Donati keeps that carefully researched short list of can’t miss gems in his desk drawer ( as we’re told by those with apparent AD experience that any AD worth his salt has at the ready), this thing should be done by the close of business on the day of our choosing.
To be totally honest, I would love to be hired as a coach at the University of South Carolina. I don't have to be the best or brightest, have no consequences for my decision making, but ultimately still get paid life changing levels of money to not work ever again after a couple of years.
I recall him interviewing and then as he stated "turned the job down". Tanner then stated the job was never offered. It was an odd sequence.
We just lost badly to a team that "was" 0-3. We got what we deserved in a washed up retread. So disappointing!
I know he got like 22 new players but didn't find a way to upgrade the pitching. It's mind boggling. Long, long season, but dang.
They were 0-3 against Clemson, who beat them 10-0 and 7-0 in two of those games.
Not getting a warm fuzzy for the upcoming series with them.
Thank goodness we had a late inning comeback against NKU or we’d have a losing record. I remember the days we used to talk about our “actual record” as these early season cupcakes didn’t even count.
Our Athletic Depart along with NIL has me about ready to just watch pro sports. It’s really sad it has come to this. It feels like we’re a long way from digging ourselves out of it too. There is no hope for baseball and basketball right now. Only a glimmer for football.
Our Athletic Depart along with NIL has me about ready to just watch pro sports. It’s really sad it has come to this. It feels like we’re a long way from digging ourselves out of it too. There is no hope for baseball and basketball right now. Only a glimmer for football.
The time is here!! Unlike Basketball, this program was on the verge of being a dynasty. Now worst in the state!!
It was around 2015-2016 after the baseball team lost to Clemson just after the other men's teams had lost to them. I wrote a scathing email to him and said something just like that. I didn't get a response and didn't expect one, but what I said was right.