@CollegebaseballInsights posted:Actually no.
New Coach (especially if it is an external hire) should be able to bring in X number of players that meet his playing style.
In the words of Bill Parcells ""If they want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries"
Parcells said that when he left the Patriots because he couldn't get along with Robert Kraft. Parcells never made another Super Bowl while Kraft went on to win six of them, so maybe Parcells should have figured out how to get along with ownership.
But if you want to use what a pro coach said to justify what should happen in college, let's look at what actually happens in pro baseball. Pro baseball has a hard cap on the 40-man roster year-round. Teams don't get to stockpile players with false promises to take them off the market. If a player is offered a non-roster invite to spring training he knows exactly what that means, and if another team offers him a spot on the 40-man he's probably going to take that instead. Pro players have contracts, are represented by a union, aren't trying to get a college degree at the same time, and aren't being forced into university housing they may not be able to get out of mid-year. And while pro managers certainly have input on player evaluation, a prospective pro manager who tells the GM he needs to release half of the team so he can bring in guys who "meet his playing style" would get laughed out of the interview. If pro mangers can figure out how to coach the team they're given, college coaches can too.