Kendall Rogers say Lemonis
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BREAKING: I’m hearing from sources that @IndianaBase head coach Chris Lemonis will be the next head coach at @HailStateBB, and that top #HailState assistant Jake Gautreau will stay on staff. If that doesn’t change, I really like that duo.
I like it as well. It ain't McDonnell but it is one of his disciples. Him and Gautreau together could probably do some real crootin.
Curious why you think this... I'm not saying he isn't, but resume doesn't look that impressive.
Tracy smith was the Indiana coach in 2013 and 2014. He won back-to-back big 10 titles and a CWS. In 2015, lemonis took over. Here's his big 10 finishes since he took over...
2015 = 6th
2016 = 3rd (tie)
2017 = 6th
2018 = 5th
He made a regional in 2015 (1-2 record), 2017 (1-2), and 2018 (2-2)
ETA... stats were wrong. Wrong year. My apologies
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Are you sure about your stats? In 2018 his club led the big ten in HR and was second in BA and led in slug
He helped mcdonnell build louisville.
He has taken indiana to 3 regionals
in 4 years. They had been to 3 under smith in 9 years I think smith just hit lightning in a bottle with schwarber and travis. Because he is about to get canned at az st
His recruiting classes at indiana are 39, 36 and 33 for the next three years I believe thats better than godwin in two of those
He helped mcdonnell build louisville.
He has taken indiana to 3 regionals
in 4 years. They had been to 3 under smith in 9 years I think smith just hit lightning in a bottle with schwarber and travis. Because he is about to get canned at az st
His recruiting classes at indiana are 39, 36 and 33 for the next three years I believe thats better than godwin in two of those
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The guy knows how to recruit but head coach resume isn’t exactly incredible. Not really sure what to think about this, but let’s roll.... I guess we’ll never really know WTF happened with Schloss.
They lost a lot after 2014, so it was a rebuild. They won 40 this year. 2 more runs against texas and they are in omaha. (I think they would have taken the mighty TN Tech squad).
With Gautreau staying on, I ain't too worried about the bats.
With Gautreau staying on, I ain't too worried about the bats.
Did not know his name.
But I did notice Indy playing some solid baseball in the post season.
Big 10 and all.
But I did notice Indy playing some solid baseball in the post season.
Big 10 and all.
Meh...
Just.....meh.
If true, I wish Cohen would've kept his mouth shut. He made it sound like the next coach would be the Tony La Russa of college baseball. Talk about blue balls (if true).
Just.....meh.
If true, I wish Cohen would've kept his mouth shut. He made it sound like the next coach would be the Tony La Russa of college baseball. Talk about blue balls (if true).
Their bats were quite good. My post pre-edit had wrong year stats. Here's correct rankings...
Indiana offensive ranks in big 10...
Avg - 2nd
Slugging - 1st
OBP - 4th
Runs - 3rd
2b - 3rd
3b - 7th
HR - 1st
After all the talk, this seems like an underwhelming hire. Why not keep Hendo if you’re not going to get an Elite level coach?
It’s becoming apparent that Cohen really values recruiting in his coaches. Obviously, Moorhead’s success is all the buzz right now, but Lemonis / Gautreau should easily exceed that.
From a recruiting stand point, that’s arguably the best 1-2 punch in the SECW.
From a recruiting stand point, that’s arguably the best 1-2 punch in the SECW.
I will trust IB on this one. He knows baseball & has had time to vet the candidates. Obviously does not meet the criteria he set our early in the process though.
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Could be. But, initially, it would still be an underwhelming hire when you consider what Cohen has said.
We likely over value our place in college baseball but with the facilities, fan support and conference you would think it would be a highly attractive job.
Lemon is Lemonis
Off the hoof, I'm not loving this hire, mostly because of cohens promises falling flat. Bet he wishes he could have done that differently. I think we could have gotten schloss had we not telegraphed our intentions and given tcu time to react. Holding out hope for someone else, but if it's him, I will begrudgingly give him my support. Butch should have been the guy if we couldn't get our top targets
Off the hoof, I'm not loving this hire, mostly because of cohens promises falling flat. Bet he wishes he could have done that differently. I think we could have gotten schloss had we not telegraphed our intentions and given tcu time to react. Holding out hope for someone else, but if it's him, I will begrudgingly give him my support. Butch should have been the guy if we couldn't get our top targets
This is actually a similar type of hire I would have expected us to make when the job opened if February. The only reason people are underwhelmed is because of Cohen talking up the hire so brashly in the public. He is going to have to own that perception for a while- he’s the one who created it.
Who the hell knows, Lemonis may be the greatest baseball coach we ever have. I hope he is, and I will obviously support him. But the reaction that this is getting from the fans is mostly on Cohen.
I think that it’s a combination of two things. Number one, many of our fans expect college baseball to work like football and basketball where the big dogs can just go buy a coach from wherever when they need one. It simply doesn’t work this way and never has in college baseball....for anybody. We’ve only made one “elite” hire on paper in our entire storied history (Cohen), and the only thing that made that hire possible was that he played for us. It never happens any other way without some connection like that. That is the same way that Arkansas got Van Horn, too. Successful coaches stay where they are at in this game, with very few exceptions.
Number 2, our fans put WAY too much stock in Cohen’s interview on Bounds that day (or whereever it was). Yeah, he probably blew some smoke up our asses, but anyone that was paying attention knew that it was a “rah rah” interview to sell the program and get the fans excited. It’s also easy to see that just about everything he was saying about what the result would be was completely unknowable at the time of the interview. I mean when was it, over 2 months ago? No way in hell Cohen had anything other than some early agent callbacks just to do preliminary talks at that time. I took it about the same way as when Dan Mullen said we were never losing to OM again. And that is “Yeah, I like the enthusiasm, and I believe you’re going to do your best to make it happen, but your probably full of it.”
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