Mingione new HC at Kentucky**

engie

Sophomore
May 29, 2011
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I thought he was our best recruiter....

Whoever is in that role is going to always get most of the credit for recruiting regardless...

Now is the chance to really upgrade some facets of our program that have always been lacking under this regime...
 

dawgstudent

Heisman
Apr 15, 2003
40,745
23,003
113
From an article that Bob Carskadon wrote - Mingione made $36,000 in his first 7 years of coaching...total.
 

MSUDC11

Redshirt
Aug 23, 2012
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Good for him. Very good recruiter, very bad third base coach.

I'm worried about losing Wes. He's a native Arkansan and the Hogs want him. Also getting interest from Texas too, supposedly.
 

Shmuley

Heisman
Mar 6, 2008
24,433
12,664
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Hell, at least we ought to offer to give him a jersey number for his trouble.
 

57stratdawg

Heisman
Dec 1, 2004
148,782
24,668
113
He's in a good spot. The talent on our roster is very deep.

The idea that he could go to Ark and be in position to take over for Van Horn doesn't make sense. If they have a bad enough year to fire the HC, the pitching staff's performance isn't going to win him any favors.
 

patdog

Heisman
May 28, 2007
61,367
33,132
113
"Volunteer" assistant coaches get a lot of side help from the school in supplementing their income. Like use of school facilities for private personal individual coaching of kids under 15 (not sure of the exact age cutoff, but there is an age where it becomes an NCAA violation). Then work in camps, etc.
 

engie

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May 29, 2011
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"Volunteer" assistant coaches get a lot of side help from the school in supplementing their income. Like use of school facilities for private personal individual coaching of kids under 15 (not sure of the exact age cutoff, but there is an age where it becomes an NCAA violation). Then work in camps, etc.

This is right. Those guys at the MS programs with the amount of camp interest, sponsorship $$, etc make more than they would as a paid assistant in the Sun Belt or an equivalent program.
 

jb1020

Freshman
Jun 7, 2009
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Mullen can't keep good assistants!

this kind of staff turnover is unacceptable.

Wait, this is always good when it happens to Cohen. Carry on.
 

hogfan14

Freshman
Mar 28, 2013
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So why leave here after a year for that dump? Closer to home?

His family still lives in Arkansas. He coached high school and college in the state for a long time.

I wouldn't call a team after one bad (while it was very bad) year a "dump." Still had the #4 recruiting class coming in before the draft.
 
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Whoever is in that role is going to always get most of the credit for recruiting regardless...

Now is the chance to really upgrade some facets of our program that have always been lacking under this regime...

What facets are you talking about Engie? Always enjoy reading your takes regarding baseball.
 

engie

Sophomore
May 29, 2011
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What facets are you talking about Engie? Always enjoy reading your takes regarding baseball.

I'd honestly rather not go down that road... no reason to sling mud now that it's over and I'm not sure how to phrase it and not seem like that is what I'm doing...
 

engie

Sophomore
May 29, 2011
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I wasn't calling the team a dump. I was calling Arkansas a dump.

Come on man. I understand this thought from LR south -- but that is not where Fayetteville is located.

It would be a pretty big hit to lose Johnson to a lateral move even if it is "going home" especially when Cohen's past 4(at least) paid assistant coaches were/are head coaches somewhere. Although I fully expect to lose him in the maximum of 3 years as a head guy somewhere when this freshman class of pitchers is outgoing. We will never know the full scope of how good he was overall while he's still here because of how recruiting works.
 

Hoover Dawg

Redshirt
May 16, 2016
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Come on man. I understand this thought from LR south -- but that is not where Fayetteville is located.

It would be a pretty big hit to lose Johnson to a lateral move even if it is "going home" especially when Cohen's past 4(at least) paid assistant coaches were/are head coaches somewhere. Although I fully expect to lose him in the maximum of 3 years as a head guy somewhere when this freshman class of pitchers is outgoing. We will never know the full scope of how good he was overall while he's still here because of how recruiting works.
Arkansas is a dump. I know.
 

hogfan14

Freshman
Mar 28, 2013
376
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NWA is not a dump. I don't care what you think you know.

Yeah the NE and southern parts of the state don't have much but Northwest Arkansas is growing at a huge rate and has a world class art museum.

 

KurtRambis4

Redshirt
Aug 30, 2006
15,926
0
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As others have

said, parts are, but there are parts that are really nice.

AR State Parks/Tourism blows ours away. Not even close.
 
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