re: Dave Van Horn on Texas A&M

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Childress was an assistant, a very good one, under DVH at Nebraska before Dave came to Arkansas. They had a good bit of success there.

Looking at what Childress has done with an also ran program like aggie it boggles the mind that they cut him loose.

But he will be better off leaving and will most likely land at a better spot.

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Childress is a good coach, when he arrived at A&M they had made it to Omaha just 4 times in their history. In his 15 years (excluding covid season) he took them to Omaha only twice and failed to win a game at the CWS.

Guess how many CWS appearances Arkansas had before hiring Van Horn? 4. Arkansas and A&M were spitting images of each other until you hired Van Horn who sort of fell in your lap being a former player. Before 2003 A&M was 2-8 in Omaha and Arkansas was 7-8...

What they are doing now is no different than what Arkansas did when they moved on from a very regionally successful DeBriyn.

Look I get it is fun to make fun of Aggy but y'all are throwing stones from a glass house. Up until 2003, your baseball program was A&M's just with a CWS runner-up finish in '79.

If Van Horn had only gone to Omaha twice in 15 years and failed to win a game in Omaha, Arkansas would 100% have been looking to move on former player or not.