USF head coach Mark Kingston
http://www.thestate.com/sports/coll...h-carolina/usc-baseball/article157748614.html
http://www.thestate.com/sports/coll...h-carolina/usc-baseball/article157748614.html
First on campus interview...
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That's according to TBS also. Not a bad resume but if we're going to hire a non power 5 coach, I'd rather have lovelady from ucf
We need a proven head coach that has been to Omaha...if you are not going to hire a big name you should have kept what you had.
Who? Can we not do better than this? Feels like we are going settle.
that is such bs...resumes don't win games...every great HBC had a mediocre resume at one time...Tanner is looking for young coaching and teaching talent...Holbrook proved he didn't have it
My guess is that we'll end up with someone like a Kingston (if not Kingston himself). And that's not settling; that's what's interested and available.
THIS! The only sports program we're a blue blood in. We shouldn't settle for 2nd tier.
I do agree and understand about it feeling like we're settling. I just can't imagine any coach who took his team to the CWS recently pulling up stakes and coming to Columbia. He's enjoying where he is, and the Columbia pressure cooker isn't worth the extra take-home pay, IMO.
Ray will hire the best of who's available and interested. I don't see it being a top coach whose name gets tossed around here a lot, because I don't think they are interested.
I said rather, not settle. Kingston wouldn't be my first choice but I'm not the one making that call. If Tanner makes that decision then I doubt he feels like he's settling
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This ain't football. Please identify a couple of 1st tier baseball coaches who have left a program that they had taken to/near the top for a "blue blood" job.
In 9 years at NC State, Ray never won the ACC. Ray never took NC State beyond a regional. Was Ray "2nd tier?
We couldn't keep what we had. Let's just get that straight right now.
Me clicking the like button on your comment a 1,000 times.
Are you saying anyone with a past DUI is a drunk? Or did he have more than one?
Honestly, we waited too long on Chad and missed Monte. Now that that ship has sailed, it's time for a big hire.
I'm pretty sure he also had one while coaching at Fullerton. There was also a video of him being very abusive to his players.
His mode of communications to young people also leaves a lot to be desired. His YouTube videos are both NSFW and NSFHWC.
I was going to be less direct, but Augie's personal issues most likely played a role in his move to Austin.
Then there's George Horton who Oregon hired to restart their baseball program.
The bottom line should be that we want Ray to hire a coach who will get the job done (should make the post season every year, the supers most every year, and a not infrequent visitor to Omaha), regardless if the coach is a blueblood or not.
Earlier in the year I was complaining that we missed out on Monte. But right now I'm not so sure we missed on Monte, but the jury is still out on him, imo.
I guess every hire is huge, but Ray has two of the biggest in school history. Spurrier's successor and now someone to save the baseball program from squandering the recent success.
Will be interesting to look back on in about 5 years
Will be interesting to look back on in about 5 years
Just saying ... not defending, not justifying, not offering excuses ... just saying that it's interesting that 3 SEC teams made the college world series, two are still in it. Vandy, a 4th SEC team, won the CWS just a couple of years ago. And I'm pretty sure that LSU won the CWS the year before we started our 3 year run. WOW ... that's pretty darn tough competition year-after-year in one conference. LOL and the funny part is that we beat each of those teams this year.
Nobody seems to stand out, right now, as the most logical or best choice to replace Chad. Sometimes officials get criticized for blowing the whistle too quick. Many got what they wished for. Hope those posters didn't blow the whistle too quickly.
Nobody seems to stand out, right now, as the most logical or best choice to replace Chad. Sometimes officials get criticized for blowing the whistle too quick. Many got what they wished for. Hope those posters didn't blow the whistle too quickly.
O'Sullivan and Corbin were not big names when they got the UF and Vandy jobs,,not even head coaches,,, I don't want the big name coach,,, I want the guy who is a good "in game" coach,,to me that is Chris Lemonis at Indiana,,if he can turn them into a winning program just think what he can do at Carolina,,and Mark Kingston's USF team did take 2 out of 3 from both UF and FSU this year,, but I trust Ray and his knowledge of baseball for whoever he hires
Neither were Sparky Woods or Steve Newton big names before they accepted Carolina head coaching jobs. Now they're even more forgettable.
I did say ALL things considered-salary included. He seems to be doing pretty good with less. Unless you are willing to spend 5 minutes researching this like I did, you are not qualified to judge my opinion...
