Best State coaching

[preacher_dawg]

This stretch by the baseball team really makes me wonder if Cannizaro should be included in the conversation of the best coaching at State given the cards he has been dealt. Of course, it might be premature to say that, but this stretch with a depleted pitching staff has been amazing. So what is some of the best coaching at State that you have seen?

 

[tatedog]

Vic Shaefer, Jackie when he was still motivated to get the Bama job, and Polk pre 1991.


edit: Pat McMahon's 1998 baseball team deserves at least a mention for that miracle regional performance in College Station against a brutal field.

 

[goodknight]

Who is CAM?

 

[preacher_dawg]

You're right, sorry about that. I can never remember his name, but I should have at least said Cann. Corrected.

 

[Miketice]

I think he really knew and was just being a dick.

 

[preacher_dawg]

Yeah, I know, but I think he was also right to call me out on it. As a State fan, I should least get our coach's abbreviated name right. It just kinda messed up my post about asking for everybody's opinion on State coaches. I would agree with Tate, but I might also add Cohen's trip to Omaha. What about Williams' team at the Final Four? Personally, I think it's close, but I remember they just looked lost against Syracuse.

 

[bruiser.sixpack]

We started the game against Syracuse by jumping to a 14-6 lead. I think that team thought they were a team of destiny and started coasting a little bit and before they knew what happened The Cuse inside game took them to the woodshed.

 

[thatsbaseball]

I don`t know if the Final Four run from the SEC tournament to the Final Four itself was the best coaching job but damn it was fun. The MSU family got about as wrapped up in that stretch as I`ve ever seen us. Many trailers got sold to follow that team after the SEC tournament. Good times !

 

[Moe Cabelle]

Ha, with the "cards he'd been dealt.... Mullen got us to 9 wins and a gator bowl thrashing of might Michigan. All with a croom 'cruited qb named Relf AFTER having graduated our best RB at the time. That was a miracle season. Stunning as I think about it, just run run run to beat Florida in the swamp.

THAT was coaching as DM adjusted to what he had and went with it and won.

 

[thekimmer]

I assume you mean best coaching job of an individual season....

This stretch by the baseball team really makes me wonder if Cannizaro should be included in the conversation of the best coaching at State given the cards he has been dealt. Of course, it might be premature to say that, but this stretch with a depleted pitching staff has been amazing. So what is some of the best coaching at State that you have seen?

Even then, its kind of premature at this point with so much left of the season. If we finish at least second in the conference and make it to a super I'd put it up there in the running for an individual season. Its really hard to rank these though because sometimes the best coaching jobs don't result in the highest outcomes. After all what is a better job? Taking a good team and making it great or a mediocre team and making it good.