Henderson named Coach of the Year
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Regardless of you your opinion on the subject. It's going to be interesting to see how Cohen handles this. I can't figure out if all this is making things a lot easier for him or really putting him in a bind.
From what I've seen, he loves GH. It may justify what he wanted to do in the first place, but knew it's not what the fans wanted. Just a thought, but who knows.
ETA: Congrats to coach Henderson. I'm proud to call him our coach & would be proud to say the same next year.
ETA: Congrats to coach Henderson. I'm proud to call him our coach & would be proud to say the same next year.
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Maybe or maybe not. This might be a bit of a relief as IB can now hire GH without a lot of blow back. If we had missed the post season or went two and que the decision would have been easy. I think once we made it to the supers is where the situation got a bit fuzzy and the decision very difficult. Once we made it to omaha things tipped toward henderson and this just provides more 'tippage'. I still would not remove the interim tag until after the CWS because 1) it makes for a great story line as I am betting there haven't been many interim coaches make the CWS and 2) it provides more motivation for GH and team to play hungry and prove themselves.
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I think it gives him an out should he miss on the rest of his top candidates.
You can certainly hire a lot worse than the reigning national coach of the year.
Before you base your decision solely on that award, though, remind yourself who won the 2007 SEC coach of the year in football (as well as one national coach of the year award) and ask if you’d hire that guy.
You can certainly hire a lot worse than the reigning national coach of the year.
Before you base your decision solely on that award, though, remind yourself who won the 2007 SEC coach of the year in football (as well as one national coach of the year award) and ask if you’d hire that guy.
I don't agree with it any more than I agreed with Obama getting a Noble Peace Prize. But I am not surprised. The people who make these decisions often do not take much more than a superficial look.
Our team made a late season/post-season run that was incredible. Is it really shocking the default opinion would give credit to CGH?
Beyond that, even if he does deserve COY this year, that does not mean he's the right guy for the job or even a great coach. He isn't. all one must do is look at his extended record as an HC.
In 2012, he was named SEC COY. Then two of the next four years he went 30-25, and made an NCAA regional just once in those 4 years. He damn sure wasn't sniffing COY in any other year at UK.
Isn't it strange such an awesome HC didn't have other big-time programs beating his door down, throwing tons of money at him after 2012?**
Maybe...just maybe they weren't foolish enough to base such a big decision on such a small sample size, particularly given his relative lack of success over the rest of his career as an HC.
You can beat this drum until the cows come home and it still won't make sense. Regardless of how good a job you think CGH did this year, it is beyond stupid to judge him more on this year than the other 9 years he's spent as an HC.
Our team made a late season/post-season run that was incredible. Is it really shocking the default opinion would give credit to CGH?
Beyond that, even if he does deserve COY this year, that does not mean he's the right guy for the job or even a great coach. He isn't. all one must do is look at his extended record as an HC.
In 2012, he was named SEC COY. Then two of the next four years he went 30-25, and made an NCAA regional just once in those 4 years. He damn sure wasn't sniffing COY in any other year at UK.
Isn't it strange such an awesome HC didn't have other big-time programs beating his door down, throwing tons of money at him after 2012?**
Maybe...just maybe they weren't foolish enough to base such a big decision on such a small sample size, particularly given his relative lack of success over the rest of his career as an HC.
You can beat this drum until the cows come home and it still won't make sense. Regardless of how good a job you think CGH did this year, it is beyond stupid to judge him more on this year than the other 9 years he's spent as an HC.
I'll add to this, do you CGH supporters who think he manufactured a miracle this year even realize we were ranked #12 preseason? Since Canni didn't get canned until after the season started, we can't exactly credit CGH with building up a team that was supposed to be bad. We were supposed to be really good.
At what point do we maybe consider the late season surge had something to do with the team finally beginning to play up to preseason expectations after playing well below for most of the season (under CGH I might add)?
How about the fact that MacNamee bailed our asses out in the NCAA tourney again and again and again? He hit 3 home runs in the regular season before hitting 5 in the postseason. We gonna credit CGH for that, too? God knows those were HUGE for us in staving off elimination.
At what point do we maybe consider the late season surge had something to do with the team finally beginning to play up to preseason expectations after playing well below for most of the season (under CGH I might add)?
How about the fact that MacNamee bailed our asses out in the NCAA tourney again and again and again? He hit 3 home runs in the regular season before hitting 5 in the postseason. We gonna credit CGH for that, too? God knows those were HUGE for us in staving off elimination.
Congrats coach!
i was one of the ones saying not to hire him, he wasn't right for the job, too old, etc........ but after seeing how he is with our players and how much they actually love him, i'm all for it. i couldn't care less how the fans, myself included, react to the hire as long as the players like him, want to play for him, and will do what it takes to win with him. as long as he can recruit. which i believe he can. look at the players that KY has on this years team. i know they didn't make a regional, but they were talented as can be.
i was one of the ones saying not to hire him, he wasn't right for the job, too old, etc........ but after seeing how he is with our players and how much they actually love him, i'm all for it. i couldn't care less how the fans, myself included, react to the hire as long as the players like him, want to play for him, and will do what it takes to win with him. as long as he can recruit. which i believe he can. look at the players that KY has on this years team. i know they didn't make a regional, but they were talented as can be.
Sylvester Croom was also SEC COY. Just sayin'.
Love what Henderson has done with the team but I'm not sure how you can be COY when your team barely even made your conference tournament. Maybe he should be NCAA baseball tournament COY?
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How can we when you won't let anyone else use the drumstick.
We get it, you are not on Team Hendo. I don't know who you're still convincing, but I doubt Cohen reads SPS.
We get it, you are not on Team Hendo. I don't know who you're still convincing, but I doubt Cohen reads SPS.
NO! We have to make the big splash, home run, top-shelf, eye-opening, jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring, hire that will make the fanbase pee in their pants and orgasm at the same time or else we are "just settling for mediocrity"!****
And wasn't Croom fired the season after he was COY? I don't even know why he got the honor. I guess it was winning the bowl game against Central Florida.
I can see why Henderson was selected, since so much has been accomplished without expectations. Whether he was responsible is another issue.
I can see why Henderson was selected, since so much has been accomplished without expectations. Whether he was responsible is another issue.
Ironically and surprisingly
The national pitcher of the year and coach of the year were both in Hattiesburg to open the season.
The surprise is that they were named Sandlin and Henderson, not Pilkington and Cannizaro.
Go win the whole thing you magnificent bastards.
The national pitcher of the year and coach of the year were both in Hattiesburg to open the season.
The surprise is that they were named Sandlin and Henderson, not Pilkington and Cannizaro.
Go win the whole thing you magnificent bastards.
Tcu was preseason #7. Good thing we didn't hire schloss bc preseason polls are always accurate. Watching this team early in the year, it was painfully obvious we were an awesome team being held back by Henderson**
Last I checked, I was called out in this thread specifically, thus my response, Are you really suggesting I'm the only one with multiple posts on this topic, or are you simply not happy with my POV, so applying a different standard?
Oh **** guess I posted again, which you will now tally as another post.
Oh **** guess I posted again, which you will now tally as another post.
Far too much logic for this crowd. Can't remember the last time I encountered such a massing of short-sighted thinking. I pray the IB doesn't fall for this BS or the pressure.
I damn sure do not want to make the same stupid mistake UK did in 2012. We deserve a lot better. We deserve either an elite coach or an up-and-comer that looks to be one (like Gautreau). We DO NOT deserve an HC with the track record of CGH, I don't care how nice he is. We pay the man $1/4 million, and we can thank him for helping the kids hold it together. We DO NOT owe him the HC job. We need a coach that will have us competing every year for the SEC regular season championship, not one that will have us sweating out whether we'll even make the SEC tourney or get invited to someone else's regional.
What the hell is wrong with some of you folks? How can you not see CGH's career as a HC is one marked by very little accomplishment? It's not as if I'm making this **** up. Each and every one of you can look up his record. I challenge you to look at that record and tell me you'd be happy with similar results over the next few years.
If we gave him a 4-year deal, would you be happy if we come in 4th or 5th in the West, and manage to get to just one regional, and not as a host? That's what his record shows as the HC of a program.
I damn sure do not want to make the same stupid mistake UK did in 2012. We deserve a lot better. We deserve either an elite coach or an up-and-comer that looks to be one (like Gautreau). We DO NOT deserve an HC with the track record of CGH, I don't care how nice he is. We pay the man $1/4 million, and we can thank him for helping the kids hold it together. We DO NOT owe him the HC job. We need a coach that will have us competing every year for the SEC regular season championship, not one that will have us sweating out whether we'll even make the SEC tourney or get invited to someone else's regional.
What the hell is wrong with some of you folks? How can you not see CGH's career as a HC is one marked by very little accomplishment? It's not as if I'm making this **** up. Each and every one of you can look up his record. I challenge you to look at that record and tell me you'd be happy with similar results over the next few years.
If we gave him a 4-year deal, would you be happy if we come in 4th or 5th in the West, and manage to get to just one regional, and not as a host? That's what his record shows as the HC of a program.
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My God, this is a stupid response. Care to compare Schloss's track record to CGH? For the same reason I don't want CGH, (TRACK RECORD), I'd love Schloss.
The same reason we can call Schloss an elite coach is why we can't call CGH one. You don't judge an HC candidate on such a small sample size over a much larger body of work.
I'm sorry, but that's just plain stupid...it really is. 9+ years of mediocrity (at best) does not get wiped away by 3 weeks of a team getting hot and going on a winning streak.
The same reason we can call Schloss an elite coach is why we can't call CGH one. You don't judge an HC candidate on such a small sample size over a much larger body of work.
I'm sorry, but that's just plain stupid...it really is. 9+ years of mediocrity (at best) does not get wiped away by 3 weeks of a team getting hot and going on a winning streak.
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Well done Coach H. Another plus for MSU. Very Much Deserved for you and the team! Now let's go win this and settle things. Go Dawgs!
I 100% agree with you BLB. It's amazing what one swing of the bat from Mac has done to a lot of our fan base. If Mac strikes out then nobody is wanting Henderson as our head coach.
We would have been 31-25 15-15 in SEC and 0-3 in the postseason. Mac hits a walk off and our guys get hot and ridiculously clutch and all the sudden everybody's ready to give the keys to Henderson for the future.
It's amazing how emotional our fans are getting right now over this.
How many of y'all during the 2 hour rain delay against FSU were saying Henderson deserves to be the head coach of the future?
Are we really wanting to stake the future of MSU baseball off of a swing from Mac and a team getting hot 6 games?
We would have been 31-25 15-15 in SEC and 0-3 in the postseason. Mac hits a walk off and our guys get hot and ridiculously clutch and all the sudden everybody's ready to give the keys to Henderson for the future.
It's amazing how emotional our fans are getting right now over this.
How many of y'all during the 2 hour rain delay against FSU were saying Henderson deserves to be the head coach of the future?
Are we really wanting to stake the future of MSU baseball off of a swing from Mac and a team getting hot 6 games?
Serious question... who are you 2 trying to convince? Cohen will hire who he's gonna hire no matter what you, blacklisted, me, or anyone here thinks. So what's the point of running down our current coach who was named national coach of the year yesterday?
He got MSU to Omaha in what could have been a disaster year. He deserves all of the Coach of the year awards.