Scott Forbes Happy & Thriving at UNC
The sixth-year Tar Heel head coach has led his program to two College World Series and four Super Regionals during his tenure.
Scott Forbes Happy & Thriving at UNC
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Will we know what increased support entails? Thanks for everyone on your keeping IC premium members informed, like always.
Averaging 42 wins per season. That boy good!
Thankful & proud of the support given this program, well deserved! Great to see the Bosh packed for the Regional & especially the Super.
Working on it, but will certainly know eventually.
Sources close to the program affirmed that the athletic department has made a further commitment to the baseball program in recent days.
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Wasn't sold on him after his first three years, but man has he done great things the past three. Forbes stepped into a very similar position as Hubert -- strong program/brand that was still competitive but with flagging results relative to expectations (Fox only made two Supers and one CWS in his final six non-COVID years). Unlike Hubert, Forbes has been able to thrive in the new Portal/NIL era through extremely strong retention and thoughtful roster construction.
It's rare, or at least feels rare, that a legacy assistant can truly make his predecessor's program his own, build on its strengths, and address its shortcomings to meaningfully improve results. We've got a great one in Forbes; thrilled he's sticking around.
It's rare, or at least feels rare, that a legacy assistant can truly make his predecessor's program his own, build on its strengths, and address its shortcomings to meaningfully improve results. We've got a great one in Forbes; thrilled he's sticking around.
It’s a significant raise for the entire staff and much more nil support.
Did you read what you actually wrote?? Fox only made 2 supers and one CWS in his last 6 years like the program was in the dumps. Didn’t think we had fans who thought our program was in bad shape at any point in the last 20 years. Getting to supers and the CWS is hard… ask the 8 teams who played in the CWS last year and didn’t even make supers this year. Agree with all the praise for Forbes, and I think it’s been deserved from day 1… but Fox was doing just fine and I didn’t want him to retire at all.
100% deserved with the way Forbes got us competing every year for a shot at omaha
Great coach and great representative of our University.
Did you read what I wrote...? Saying a program is "still competitive but with flagging results relative to expectations" is not at all the same as saying the program is in the dumps.
You're correct, Fox was doing just fine, but he wasn't excelling. We missed the NCAAT twice in that six-year stretch and made it to Omaha once. In Fox's entire tenure, we only missed the tournament three times (2001, 2015, 2016). In the prior six years, we made it to Omaha four times (and were in the championship series against OSU each of the two years before that). When you go from making the CWS at a rate of 75% to a rate of 17%, I think it's fair to say your results are flagging.
We are lucky to have him. Glad leadership didn’t slow play the SC push.
There will be more money to pay players. Leave it at that.
The Davis/Forbes/NIL comparison is apples to oranges, no disrespect to you or fruit intended.
I hear you but it's not that simple in my mind? If it's rev share, that pot is capped so there's inherently an impact on at least one other program.
I’m going to guess it’s a NIL commitment from a donor.
I don’t really see them taking
rev share away from other programs.
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It’s not rev share. It’s pledged money specifically for baseball players
Fantastic. Appreciate you!
S/O to the donors in football, basketball, and baseball that have really stepped up the past couple years. We'll never be Texas Tech or SMU but if I was a fan of another school I would hate the day we join the P2.
They handle the portal very well. We replaced the entire starting lineup save Gallaher and didn’t miss a beat.
I wish they could improve the scoreboard by having video replay of plays available to the fans.
LFG !!!!!!! We got some work to do this week in Omaha
And they’ve done it on a shoestring budget. That will change after this year.
Listening to SC fans yap is so bad. You would think their “superior” baseball program been to Omaha since 2012
Oh my, an RC sighting on the boards…. Where ya been bud?!?
There is also a strong subset of folks who are Diamond Heels fans first, over the other sports teams at Carolina. Forbes has done a magnificent job of making those folks feel valued and seen, not unlike Dean Smith’s original devotion to the early hoops supporters. They’re not as big in numbers as football and basketball, but they’re every bit as loyal if not more.
They show replays on the scoreboard... just not enough of them.
He also has some of the heaviest hitters in his corner too. The same guys that stroke huge checks for basketball and football. That helps a lot.
"Oh my, an RC sighting on the boards…. Where ya been bud?!?"
Lol! I'm afraid that I've become more of a lurker than a contributor, but rest assured that I'm hanging around; passion and enthusiasm for Carolina Baseball securely intact!
To quote one of our favorite coaches from another sport: "Let's just go win the whole dadgum thing!!"
Lol! I'm afraid that I've become more of a lurker than a contributor, but rest assured that I'm hanging around; passion and enthusiasm for Carolina Baseball securely intact!
To quote one of our favorite coaches from another sport: "Let's just go win the whole dadgum thing!!"
I know they proposed some additions to the stadium that the University shut down years back when Field Hockey was being built. Would love to see the Bosh grow into what the program deserves! Sounds like a great story for @GregBarnes to find out if increased stadium capacity is on the table as part of the new commitment by the University!
if true … absolutely AWESOME
still would like to see source or link to validate … nothing personal
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