The next head baseball coach?

[bulldogcountry1]

I've seen Mingione and Butch Thompson being thrown out as possible replacements, but nobody is really considering that Cohen elected not to hire anyone from his coaching tree when he chose Cannizaro. I know money talks, but is it reasonable to expect that there might be some hard feelings from all those experienced coaches, seeing as how they got passed over for a guy with no HC experience?

Is this experience going to make Cohen want to look for a more experienced coach, as opposed to an up-and-comer? No pun intended.

 

[MSUDC11]

You can also make the argument that Cohen will want to hire someone he trusts instead of an outsider after this ordeal. Which leads you back to Butch and Nick.

Butch had been at Auburn a year when Cohen resigned and Nick had been at Kentucky for less than 6 months and had never coached a game. The timing didn’t make sense for those two last time. It makes more sense now.

 

[SanfordRJones]

He was making the hire in November, not during the summer. That should probably taken into consideration with him hiring an assistant and not someone like Thompson or Mingione.

ETA: Or maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. Thompson was hired on October 22, 2015.

 

[Bulldogg31]

He was making the hire in November, not during the summer. That should probably taken into consideration with him hiring an assistant and not someone like Thompson or Mingione.

Cohen actually said he did not want to disrupt the program at Kentucky on such short notice by taking their head coach. Cohen and the KY AD are friends and friends don't do shot like that to each other (ahem, ahem).

He also said Butch let him know he really wanted to ride the thing out at Auburn and see what he could do over there.

I don't think he minded sticking it to Mainieri

 

[bulldogcountry1]

All good points.

I'm curious to see how Mingione does this year. He inherited a pretty good situation.

 

[KurtRambis4]

Butch seems

like a nice guy, but I just don't know if he has what it take to recruit at an elite level.

 

[MarkDallas]

I want THE BEST college baseball coach in America. This is the one sport where we have a prestigious program.

 

[Willow Grove Dawg]

Cohen would prefer not to "Stricklin" his buddy at Kentucky

 

[Arnold Babar.sixpack]

I don't know who are the best candidates that he has a legitimate shot to land, but I will say he just got burned and I'm assuming that Cohen is not the type of guy that likes to get burned. He took a leap of faith with Cann and it backfired. I think he will take his time with the next hire, hire someone that has experience, probably a lot of experience and hire someone who he is absolutely confident will be here a long time.

It sucks for Cohen because I think he's done a great job to this point and will continue learn about being an AD. That being said, I also don't think he will be out to burn any bridges in the college AD arena. That being said, if push comes to shove to get the best guy for the job, I think he will punch to do whats best for MSU and MSU baseball. That's what I love about IB

 

[Shmuley]

To hear Mainieri tell it, the Canni hire was Cohen taking a shot at Mainieri. It's all about Maineiri obviously. Typical self-absorbed *******. This time I hope Cohen pursues our Saban. Our best shot at a title in the big three is baseball. Our best shot at consistent success long term in the big three is baseball. Go find our Saban, John. Spend what it takes.

 

[Arnold Babar.sixpack]

Bingo as usual, Shmuley. Cohen's in an interesting position being a former coach and now AD. I'm sure he has short list of guys he has it out for, whether they're AD's or coaches, and Maineiri was 1A. Cohen gives off the impression that he is not to be 17'ed with. He just got 17'ed with. Advantage MSU.

 

[DawgEStyle]

Is Corbin from Vandy in play? I say make it happen, if possible.

 

[Shmuley]

This would make me moist.

 

[ababyatemydingo]

Is Corbin from Vandy in play? I say make it happen, if possible.

Yeah, with Corbin being able to fund a scholarship for every player, manager, stat guy, & bat girl on the team, I think he knows he's got an elite job up there in Nashville. Just a unique situation with the Vanderbilt endowment. As much as I'd love for that to happen, we ain't pulling Corbin to come down here and scrape and scratch for scholarship and grant money to fund his team. This will put us behind the 8 ball with a lot of coaches we'd like to go after. It is what it is.

 

[DawgEStyle]

Guess I didn’t know Vandy had that kind of advantage.

 

[InTheIttaBenaHotSun]

Guess I didn’t know Vandy had that kind of advantage.

This applies to Schlossnagle at TCU as well.

 

[Dawg1976]

What if the guys have a good run this year under Henderson? Not a sexy hire but going to be hard not to let him run with it.

 

[HumpDawgy]

I'm going to take the BearShark approach and suggest:

 

[MSUDC11]

What if the guys have a good run this year under Henderson? Not a sexy hire but going to be hard not to let him run with it.

It’s the exact same thing as LSU hiring Ed Orgeron. Henderson got fired at Kentucky. Two Regionals in eight years to follow up on what Cohen did over there.

Gary may well do a good job for us this year, but we can do better. That would be settling big time.

 

[thatsbaseball]

Funny quote on Tiger Droppings

" Let this sink in. We just replaced the second winning-est coach in LSU's history with the worst coach in Ole Miss' history"

now that's funny

 

[HumpDawgy]

Does anyone know if Henderson even wants to be a HC anymore? He was hired as Cohen's pitching coach before Cohen took the AD job and then hired Cann. With Cohen and Henderson being close, I believe if he wanted the job then, Cohen would have named him the HC then instead of an unproven assistant coach. Maybe Henderson likes working with pitchers and knows he is good at that part of the job.

 

[patdog]

No. It's not the same at all. For one thing, Henderson isn't a lunatic. For another, he's actually had some success as a head coach (2 regionals in 8 years plus his players went to another the year after he was gone at Kentucky isn't bad at all). And finally, it wouldn't be the same unless we were turned down by several other targets before finally giving him the job in desperation. All that said, I don't think Henderson will be the permanent coach.

 

[BiscuitEater]

Is Corbin from Vandy in play? I say make it happen, if possible.

Sorry, Corbin would be a totally different coach when he can't give out 40+, ~$250K schollys (Vanderbilt University Tuition Summary. Tuition and fees at Vanderbilt University are $44,712 USD without financial aid. With room, board, and other fees combined, total cost of attendance is $63,532)

 

[5049]

Lane Burroughs, I do not know why more people aren't mentioning him, he's a great candidate

 

[HumpDawgy]

Sorry, Corbin would be a totally different coach when he can't give out 40+, ~$250K schollys (Vanderbilt University Tuition Summary. Tuition and fees at Vanderbilt University are $44,712 USD without financial aid. With room, board, and other fees combined, total cost of attendance is $63,532)

Sure, Vandy has that advantage, but players will not sign with your program if it is a bad program, regardless of the money. Corbin runs a good program and is a good coach. I don't believe we will get him though unless he is over the whistler dude.

 

[InTheIttaBenaHotSun]

Lane could very well be a great coach but he's not proven it on a big stage yet.

If he wins regionals at La Tech then he'll for sure get his shot somewhere.

 

[Wizard.sixpack]

if he came, Cannizaro would be the next coach at La Tech. If not there, he will end up at a Louisiana directional school. They don't give a **** down there, they just want to win.

 

[HumpDawgy]

Also, from the recruiting commits I have seen so far, he is not necessarily "killing it" in recruiting right now. We need a strong national recruiter. I wouldn't mind bringing him on in some capacity, but he will not leave a HC position for an assistant position with us.

 

[blacklistedbully]

To me, this is also a reason to not take Corbin. Would he have the same success if he didn't have that huge advantage at Vandy? I doubt it.

Make no mistake...that is a significant advantage, given the ridiculous restrictions placed on every other institution.

 

[5049]

Lane could very well be a great coach but he's not proven it on a big stage yet.

If he wins regionals at La Tech then he'll for sure get his shot somewhere.

What big stage? Who cares? What stage did Cannizaro prove himself and everybody was infatuated with him. What stage did Corbin prove when he was hired at Vanderbilt, McDonnell at Vanderbilt? They were assistants at other programs. Lane has done that too, plus won at smaller schools. If anything he has a better resume

 

[5049]

Also, from the recruiting commits I have seen so far, he is not necessarily "killing it" in recruiting right now. We need a strong national recruiter. I wouldn't mind bringing him on in some capacity, but he will not leave a HC position for an assistant position with us.

Oh, his recruiting at MSU didn't convince you? Pretty talented team we trotted out there in Omaha, what 3-4 MLB players on it now?

Ya'll are nuts

 

[goodknight]

I don’t know who but I’m sure there will be a one-eyed Willy clause that is stressed in the contract!

 

[blacklistedbully]

There are a lot of "good coaches" that could kick *** with unlimited scholly money. We want a great coach who we feel as certain as possible can win championships with our scholly restrictions.

Nothing in Corbin's career makes me feel that way. Dude's been at Vandy 15 years with a huge advantage. Despite his huge advantage at Vandy, he has only managed 1 more CWS appearance in the past 15 seasons than we have.

Good coach, for sure, but I just can't say he's great. Don't have to be great to get the results at Vandy.

 

[engie]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Tadlock

My vote.

 

[KurtRambis4]

I wouldn't mind

Corbin at all. He's won it all and proven he is an elite recruiter.

Having said that, I'd doubt he would come.

He's got it pretty good at Vandy, currently.

Also, he's a little older. I'd prefer someone in their early 40s, that would be here (if successful) for a long time.

Man, Cannizaro really 17ed it up.

He had a chance to become a 17ing legend, not just at MSU, but in college baseball.

What an idiot.

 

[5049]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Tadlock

My vote.

Another pipe dream IMO. Make the call, sure, but don't expect much

 

[wpmusm]

I said on one of our boards that I thought Cannizaro would end up at a Louisiana Southland school in a few years.

Don’t ever see him getting an SEC job again but I could easily see him going to a SELA, McNeese, UNO, etc then maybe working his way up to a higher profile non-power conference job (Tulane, ULL, USM, USA, etc).

 

[engie]

Aim lower for the guy that’s never coached in an NCAA tournament yet. Got it. We know your feelings on the matter at this point.

 

[5049]

Aim lower for the guy that’s never coached in an NCAA tournament yet. Got it. We know your feelings on the matter at this point.

Don't get defensive, call the guy, same with McDonnell

Might have half a chance with McDonnell due to the AD situation, but near 0% chance of pulling a Tech alumnus from Tech, duh

 

[engie]

McDonnell is making over a mil now. First in the history of college baseball.

Someone should inform Strick of this zero chance of an alum taking an obviously much better job for a huge raise...

Lane might build a great resume in 3-4 years. He’s at least that far and that much winning from MSU-ready though.