Forbes ?? Candidate for SC

[premn]

It appears that almost every eligible player will transfer from CCU to USC. The real question is whether the talent level on last year’s CCU team could actually compete in the SEC. I have my doubts.

SC fans spent all year trashing coastal for not being in a major conference and are now celebrating the entire staff and roster coming to Columbia. Fandom is very funny

 

[floridahighschoolcoach]

I think coastal players will be fine in the SEC . The question is who will coastal hire ?

 

[nutz4Dheels]

I know the board doesn’t need me to validate this but Mahler is spot on here. Forbes was most definitely considering this move and I was worried that he might leave. SC was willing to wait through the supers for Forbes but thankfully we came up with the money we needed to come up with. I think people would be surprised at how close SC came to taking our coach.

Same. I'm under oath not to say anything, but Mahler has been all over this. This was about as close to the Beamer / UNC football deal with Baddour many years ago as it could've been. Thrilled some folks stepped up and that Forbes, his staff, and returning players will be in Chapel Hill and not Columbia next year.

It appears that almost every eligible player will transfer from CCU to USC. The real question is whether the talent level on last year’s CCU team could actually compete in the SEC. I have my doubts.

I agree. Coastal played poorly down the stretch, and SC was just a bad baseball team. Next year's Coastal (which is now SC) would struggle to win consistently in the SEC week in/week out. They hould be a lot more competitive...especially if they can combine their rosters. I'd be surprised if they're top half of the SEC next year if it's just a combined Coastal/SC roster without any extra portal help, though.

 

[goheels1117]

I didn’t realize that a former UNC baseball equipment manager was now a deputy executive AD at South Carolina and was involved enough in this search that Schnall thanked him in his opening statement today. I knew Holbrook had hired him down there but I didn’t know he’d survived through all the baseball changes and moved his way up the AD.

 

[unctar2001]

40K from what we spent on football last season should not be missed. I will stop calling the football program a clown show when the 73 year old coach stops skipping letterman events to watch his 24 ? Year old girlfriend cheer ! Deal .

probably ? Look take 400 K fron BB

I’ll stop when we stop hiring 70+ year old coaches

 

[unctar2001]

Ok- story... I have a connection who is a student at SC and this student has (and is currently) interned with various sports programs at SC. I saw the forbes thread on thursday and while I knew he was never leaving UNC, I texted "my source" and said... "There is talk on IC about Forbes and SC". Said student responded... "I was told we're hiring the Coastal coach". This was last Friday.

This is why I posted what I did. My "source" was wrong- in that they had not in fact hired him yet. But the point of the post was to clarify that... while some fans were talking about Forbes, SC had already given up on Forbes before the news had even been posted that they were interested in him last Thursday. Forbes was never anything more than ONE "reach out from SC" that ended very quickly.

Pretty much the, we have to at least contact Brad Stevens bit

 

[cc4unc]

I didn’t realize that a former UNC baseball equipment manager was now a deputy executive AD at South Carolina and was involved enough in this search that Schnall thanked him in his opening statement today. I knew Holbrook had hired him down there but I didn’t know he’d survived through all the baseball changes and moved his way up the AD.

Tyson Lusk is how they made the connection with Forbes.

 

[CoopCupp]

SC fans are more delusional than NC State fans. They actually think Forbes was never offered & Schnall was always their #1 choice.

 

[cc4unc]

SC fans are more delusional than NC State fans. They actually think Forbes was never offered & Schnall was always their #1 choice.

Both of their boards have reported that they made a big offer to Forbes.

 

[CoopCupp]

Both of their boards have reported that they made a big offer to Forbes.

Not saying they didn’t report it, I’m saying a lot of their fans think otherwise because their delusional fans

 

[THEChapelthrill]

I think coastal players will be fine in the SEC . The question is who will coastal hire ?

yeah, could likely be the end of their mid major run... a la wichita state a long while back.

 

[THEChapelthrill]

With all due respect, you’re making a lot of assumptions without being in on how this went down.



This was much closer to going sideways than many will probably ever know. Glad it worked out. The baseball family put on the full court press and the staff is going to get a well deserved reward.

Just like I barely give a rat's ace about football now, and basketball is barely hanging on in my fandom world by a string... if we lost Forbes to a now bad program in greenville SC for a 10% price difference or something similar, I would be on my way out the door as a UNC baseball fan too. If Globe (a kid we signed a gave a chance to play early, developed already into one of the best pitchers in the nation, who is on a team that has been or is the odds on favorite to win the CWS in the last week or two) leaves for more money (as it clearly won't be for a better chance to win), it will erode that same baseball fandom. Baseball was my last enjoyable major college sport in this terrible ridiculous NIL/ Portal era. But if either of those things would/ happen it will be similar to my feelings with football and basketball. Guess it's no stab at UNC/ admin... just the current landscape. And this coming from someone who has two degrees from UNC and lived in Avery while on campus and watched games from my balcony.

Really hope they can capitalize this year... afraid it may be one of the last ones I can fully enjoy.

 

[THEChapelthrill]

Obviously Forbes didn’t take the job and then walk it back. But my point is that Coach Forbes was seriously considering taking the job based on what I know. There were many on this board that kept arguing that Forbes would never leave for SC and that he was not even considering it. But that is just not true. He was a lot closer to leaving than most here think.

If he was indeed that close and had a foot out the door, then I'd be just as disappointed in him as possible. ALL of the things he's done and said while here, and what he's said it means to him at every single step, the depth of his roots here, the fact that UNC may be the BEST program in the last 20 years (no chance it's to leave for better chances to win)... it would have ultimately been a lie and he would have just chased a bit more money. And that would have been hugely disappointing and par for the course during this NIL/ Portal era of "college" sports where there is NO LOYALTY. I mean, he just signed a new contract less than 3 months ago! I guess I don't have to process that since he didn't go... but I'm disappointed somewhat as is, IF what you say is true about how CLOSE he was.

 

[premn]

If he was indeed that close and had a foot out the door, then I'd be just as disappointed in him as possible. ALL of the things he's done and said while here, and what he's said it means to him at every single step, the depth of his roots here, the fact that UNC may be the BEST program in the last 20 years (no chance it's to leave for better chances to win)... it would have ultimately been a lie and he would have just chased a bit more money. And that would have been hugely disappointing and par for the course during this NIL/ Portal era of "college" sports where there is NO LOYALTY. I mean, he just signed a new contract less than 3 months ago! I guess I don't have to process that since he didn't go... but I'm disappointed somewhat as is, IF what you say is true about how CLOSE he was.

I mean he would have brought all of his people