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.