A couple of years ago they could have hired Tracy Smith. He's the type of coach they're going to need to lure in.
For those not aware, Smith built the Miami of Ohio program, built the Indiana program, got them to the CWS and ranked for two years and moved on to Arizona Stare. He's an expert fund raiser and recruiter. When he left Indiana the team had perfect APR score.
They have gone "outside" of the UT base for the last basketball and football hire. But a UT connection makes sense. Big State, big school, big money. Just win something and the burnt orange will be a popular color again.
In the last couple of years, UT has hired new football coach Charlie Strong and basketball coach Shaka Smart. I saw in the news they were talking to UCLA's John Savage for baseball. What a marketing coup that would be...
STRONG, SMART & SAVAGE.
RJM posted:A couple of years ago they could have hired Tracy Smith. He's the type of coach they're going to need to lure in.
For those not aware, Smith built the Miami of Ohio program, built the Indiana program, got them to the CWS and ranked for two years and moved on to Arizona Stare. He's an expert fund raiser and recruiter. When he left Indiana the team had perfect APR score.
Two years ago, Texas was in college world series. Then they extended garrido. I like Tracy smith, but timing wasn't right.
Breathed a sigh of relief to see UVA's O'Connor disclaim interest in today's newspaper.
Midlo Dad posted:Breathed a sigh of relief to see UVA's O'Connor disclaim interest in today's newspaper.
He tweeted yesterday he wasnt interested.
I think social media speculation forces coaches to say they are not interested. But many coaches of top programs may suddenly get a raise based on the same speculation.
See Saban's raises and the rumored UT football coach search of the last several years.
seems to be the trend, when texas has an opening, everyone makes sure their coach is happy. In the future they maybe have to be a little more coy, perhaps line up the replacement before they announce the opening. Although I believe Texas state rules dont allow for that at state universities. They have to post the job opening.
NCAA requires job posting on a specific site.
Strange timing on when this all went down. If you really were going to go after some of these big names announcement post CWS would have seemed the way to go.
After teams were done swoop in on your target and wine and dine him before his current employer could counter. This way you basically just let all the current employers get a leg up and lock their guys up.
starting look like Oregon State's coach Casey is the likely hire.
gunner34 posted:starting look like Oregon State's coach Casey is the likely hire.
Might be John Savage now.
Todd Whitting interviews for Texas job.
They have to hire someone that recruits from that area. Thinking OSU coach would be good, but some how not too many really interested.
The fact that we are discussing this during the College World Series makes this all the more interesting to me. Texas is a program looking for a second career. Over the last few years, they have been out recruited by Texas Tech, Texas A&M, TCU, Rice, Sam Houston State and the Univ of Houston. Should we add Baylor to that list too? Those are just the D1 programs I'm thinking of off the top of my head. Think of all those talented Texas recruits going to someplace other than Burnt Orange....it is mind numbing.
I agree with TPM, they have to recruit someone with strong local ties to win these recruits back. But I also think that person has to have a national presence to get top national recruits that add something to the program. This is not going to be easy. In some ways replacing Augie Garrido is going to be extremely difficult, and in other ways I think it is going to be rather easy. They need someone with turnaround skills. One strategy could be to bring in the turnaround HC to hand it off to someone with a bigger HC profile that could get them back to CWS. Just a thought or two on the topic.
Enjoy the CWS today and Happy Fathers' day to all the Dads out there!
TPM posted:They have to hire someone that recruits from that area. Thinking OSU coach would be good, but some how not too many really interested.
That's gotta mean Ohio State University's or Oregon State University's coach...
Bolts-Coach-PR posted:TPM posted:They have to hire someone that recruits from that area. Thinking OSU coach would be good, but some how not too many really interested.
That's gotta mean Ohio State University's or Oregon State University's coach...
I just assumed TPM meant the one in the College World Series.
