Kevin Schnall coming to coach USC baseball?

[KingWard]

I think a major problem for SC fans is, and has been for a very long time, an unwarranted sense of superiority that is in no way backed up by history. WBB is very strong now, but that is a recent phenomena and when Dawn leaves, WBB will go back to being another middle of the pack in the SEC team. Baseball, probably the most successful major sport, has had flashes of success, but it is, and has never been any sort of long term dynasty. Winning back to back CWS probably created a totally unrealistic expectation for the future of Baseball. MBB, for the most part, is mediocre to bad historically, with a few bright spots thrown in. Football, especially football, is the poster child for mediocrity and always has been, yet football fans seem to have the attitude that gamecock football is some sort of traditional powerhouse and every season is going to be "special".

Every P4 school "wants it" in every sport. Some, like UK, focus their "want" on MBB. They enjoy a successful football team, but they don't obsess over it, same with baseball. MSSt, for years, was a baseball powerhouse. They are not anymore but they still see themselves as a baseball power. They are reasonable about football. They are passionate fans, but they don't delude themselves into thinking they are going to challenge for the SEC championship every year.

I think the "sense of destiny" that drives SC fans is a complete delusion. There is nothing in gamecock sports history to support any sort of sense of destiny. That delusion, and seeing Clemson enjoy the success they have recently enjoyed, pushes some SC fans to the brink of mental illness.

I refer you to the response I gave the gentleman some moments ago. It summarizes my views on this.

 

[PrestonyteParrot]

Listening to 107.5 as I was passing through Columbia and heard Schnall, Fitzgerald and Ramsey mentioned as candidates with no clear frontrunner.

 

[Sandchigger]

I don't know if any interest is legit. Coastal says they're ready to counter any offers. We would have to seriously pony up.

Why leave Coastal for Columbia,
So Carolina is overvalued by the success of women’s basketball

 

[Sandchigger]

Well, either you want it or you don't. The people who want it are driven by a sense of destiny. It makes them relentless in pursuit of what they want. This is the ethos driving the Big Boys of this world. If one thing doesn't work, they move on to the next. They don't settle.

Respectfully disagree
It’s driven by money. USC had two HOF coaches that destiny drove by
Although Holtz went ofer one year.

 

[PrestonyteParrot]

Why leave Coastal for Columbia,
So Carolina is overvalued by the success of women’s basketball

Sunbelt Conference?

 

[Cackmandu]

Why leave Coastal for Columbia,
So Carolina is overvalued by the success of women’s basketball

Yeah, I don't follow that! Unless he's just one that loves to ride with making the underdog viable and keeping them there, which is not a terrible trait! I would find it hard to turn down the rebuild, money and conference that we have to offer, but then again it might not be something he's really in to, there's a ton of pressure in this job! I'm just a little leary, he is just two years in with Coastal still playing with Gilmore's recruits. I could offer a couple of baskeball coaching hires we've flubbed on because they made a run in the tournament as an example. I would lean Ramsey with the names being mentioned.

 

[gamecockrev]

May be wrong but I would rather take a chance on a coach that has been the head coach for numerous years and won consistently at his level (even if it is D II) and a national championship over a two year coach or some assistant at another program. Just my humble opinion.

 

[KingWard]

Respectfully disagree
It’s driven by money. USC had two HOF coaches that destiny drove by
Although Holtz went ofer one year.

Those guys each had one foot into retirement. Well, Holtz was underway with his second foot when we hired him.