Let's just go ahead and get this baseball season over with so Kingston can be fired
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I agree. Welcome home, Landon Powell.
I don’t really follow beisbol, but I favor anything that hastens Tanner’s departure.
That's kinda our thing under Kingston since he got here.
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I said from the start this wasn't going to be a great season. In a sense we probably overachieved some, at least until these last two weeks. Normally, overachieving would be a good thing for a coach, but in this case the coach is responsible for the starting point and the low expectations.
I don't think Kingston is going to be let go however. There have been some high points, and we will stumble into postseason play somewhere. That seems to be enough to keep your job now.
I don't think Kingston is going to be let go however. There have been some high points, and we will stumble into postseason play somewhere. That seems to be enough to keep your job now.
Please let you be wrong. We have to fire Kingston. So many poor coaching decisions don’t even know where to start.
I’m hoping the total collapse down the stretch is enough to force a move.
Tanner struck out with Holbrook. It looks like he is down to 2 strikes on Kingston. And that's in Tanner's wheelhouse. He struck out on Muschamp. The jury is out on Beamer. If Beamer goes down like Joe Frazier and I was on the Board of Trustees, I'd order President Dr. Amiridis to take the hire out of Tanner's hands and make the hire himself. Dr. Amiridis is a smart man. I'd trust his judgment before Tanner's.
It's debatable. We had a few good, although short, runs. Kingston just hasn't built a good enough team. Finding, evaluating, and properly using pitchers has been weak.
I think anyone on this board that follows baseball could have guided this team to just as many wins by doing nothing else other than letting the assistants do their jobs.
It's time for someone else, but like I said, he probably isn't going anywhere.
While I also would like to see him go, since he has 2 CWS rings +1, Dawn's 3 NCAA's (plus the Covid Ghost Championship), 5 final fours and the turnaround Paris pulled off this season, Ray ain't going anyplace, until HE decides to retire..... unfortunately.
HEY! Maybe if Paris turns the MBB program around, like Dawn did, we'll all fall in love with Ray-Ray again .... once Beamer's gone.
Chad currently has CofC (38-12) in first place in his conference (20-5) and 101-50 (.669) conference record. Just say'n'.
I knew that. But for whatever reason, things did not work out at Carolina.
I ask one more time, why fire Kingston when Tanner will just replace him with his 3rd straight terrible hire in baseball? How can anybody think Tanner is a good AD? What has he done, and since we are on a baseball thread, what has Tanner done to improve (or maintain) our baseball team since he left. Tanner needs to go!
... and if Tanner stays? I mean I have no confidence in Tanner as well. But I doubt Tanner goes anywhere. So I'm just curious what the board thinks what's next if that's how it plays out?
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Apparently, I was wrong in thinking that everyone had come to their senses in realizing that hiring Holbrook as coach-in-waiting looked to be a good move at the time. It turned out to a bad hire in retrospect.
Tanner is not going anywhere until his retirement in summer of 2026 (forgot which month). Per "rumors" the odds on favorite for his replacement will be Miller.
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Holbrook didn't lose his job over on-the-field performance. His blow-up with Buscher didn't help him and then in interviewed with his old friend who was the CoC AD behind everyone's back. CoC's former coach sued the school and won over the incident.
Kingston's buyout falls to $400K on May 31.
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I thought it was a good hire. Tanner was having trouble getting over the hump b4 he hired Holbrook. For whatever reason it just didn't work.
Did not know all the 'behind-the-scenes' stuff. But, I can not find fault in the Holbrook hire ... it just didn't work out. Perhaps (I smell BS coming) had he been given the infamous "More Time' results may have improved.
I am not a Kingston supporter in any shape or form. But, 4 outta 5 top ranked teams are SEC. 5 outta top 9. And remember, something like 6 different SEC Schools won the CWS since our amazing run. Whoya gunna get instead??? ....... Holbrook??? LOL
LOL!!! Please forgive me. I just couldn't pass up the opportunity to spew my ignorance on a public forum.
Tanner was a hardcore, no BS, teacher of baseball. A scientific/mathematical genius in baseball.He would call a Time Out, not to scream or rant at a player but, to explain what they should/should have looked for. It wasn't against any rules .... He was teaching. He did it often.
I also understand that he was a sonovabitch. Baseball IS NOT PLAYED FOR FUN!!!
Holbrook was the buffer zone .... and it obviously worked.
BUT, when you get THE JOB, everything is different..... LOL!!! Ask Thomas Jefferson.
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Heard from a former player that if you took 3 strikes without swinging, you wanted to hide in the dugout....the opposing team's dugout. RT was an SOB as a coach.
You can be liked by your players and not win. Just from interviews…I don’t find him with a lot of personality. I was just interested in how he is perceived by those around him. I don’t expect the players to come out publicly an criticize him or praise him…but I am curious if they enjoy playing for him. I have only seen the team play once this year and they won…but it was a lack luster performance and dugout.
We've had seven years to determine Kingston isn't the man for the job. There's no sense in dicking around and waiting for other jobs to come open. Zero advantage to waiting.
Do it now.
Do it now.
Should happen but won’t. We all know what will happen.
Tanner will dawdle around and wait until the season is over. Then maybe go after one guy that is highly regarded and whiff on him as usual. Then settle for some budget hire that nobody has ever heard of and wasn’t on the lists of any other legitimate programs.
Tanner will dawdle around and wait until the season is over. Then maybe go after one guy that is highly regarded and whiff on him as usual. Then settle for some budget hire that nobody has ever heard of and wasn’t on the lists of any other legitimate programs.