re: Official Fire Mike Bianco Thread

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Godwin is making 400k a year at ECU. McDonnell is making 1.05M at Louisville. Tony Vitello is making 460k at Tennessee.

Offer one of them what Bianco is making right now.

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I was one of the few that really wanted him gone long ago, but my initial reaction to this thread was that we need the let the season play out (baseball is a weird sport and we could get hot late). But those salaries above pretty much mean we should be guaranteed to be able to upgrade.

I'm not sure I am 100% onboard with this..yet. However, Bianco's lack of bunting, especially after we lost our #1 run producer, is beyond frustrating. We clearly are not clutch enough to win games, so let's do some things that will get runners in scoring position more often. It is baseball 101.

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Tony Vitello, Tennessee Head Coach

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This is who you need to try and get. I don’t see those other names leaving without a heavy check.

Eta. Woah Godwin is cheap.

Saw where Bianco had his 900th win today. Were we making “fire bianco” type threads the year we made the CWS? Just curious. This tough because we are top 15 every year, but can’t get it done in the post season. We’d kill for that caliber of consistency in basketball or football. But the disappointment in baseball every single year is just brutal because we always lay an egg in the post season. It’s hard to imagining firing Bianco given our lack of success in pretty much all sports. Ideal scenario is he retires and we don’t have to fire him

The Ole Miss fan base has had a quick trigger for a long time. There were numerous instances where people said “Fire AK” or “Fire Cutcliffe,” whether or not those coaches deserved it.

Our biggest thing with Bianco is that he hasn’t progressed since he finally broke through to the CWS. Since then, the closest we have been was in 2019 against Arkansas in the super regional - we were out scored 25-3 in the two games we lost and 30-16 total in the series.

This season was a “show me” type of year. We knew we had some of the best talent in the entire country before the year, so the onus was on Bianco to put it together and return to the CWS.
If the postseason ended today, I think we can all agree that making the CWS wouldn’t be likely. If Bianco can’t take a team as talented as the one we have this year (disclaimer - we have had more talented teams than this) and get back to the big one, when will he?

Then Bianco pinches elko with
First open? Wtf

Well, hindsight is certainly 20/20 on walking in a run now, but it would sure as hell have been better than what happened. The real killer was Broadway walking two before that. He had walked 6 all year long. Then in the 8th we load 'em up and do nothing against sorry arse A&M. But let's make no mistake about it boys, we are just above average for a number of reasons. Teams get hot and go on rolls, but there's no reason to believe we have that in us at this point. I hope they prove me wrong.

Oh I'm sure he "thought about it" but his ego is too big for him to make a move like that. He doesn't think any coach he faces has the knowledge he does. He just got "chessed" while making a checkers move with our batting order in the 8th.