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I like the Mizzou coach, Steve Bieser
Posted on 3/19/23 at 6:56 pm
Posted on 3/19/23 at 6:56 pm
only offer he had out of high school was junior college Jefferson College in Jeff City, MO. Then a year at tiny Mineral Area College, another junior college. Got a shot at SEMO in Cape and turned that into being the 818th draft pick in 1989
Came up in the Phillies organization, all the way to AAA, and then signed with the New York Mets. Made his major league debut April 1, 1997 and hung around all year for Manager Bobby Valentine, playing 47 major league games as a utility player. He had even pitched in some minor league games.
Shipped to the Pittsburgh Pirates the next year, playing 13 MLB games in 1998. Finished out his career in the minors again, with the Redbirds of the St Louis Cardinals organization.
Became a high school coach, won two state championships, coached a prospect league team, then got on as an assistant at SEMO. Then became SEMO head coach and won the Ohio Valley Conference three times.
Then became Mizzou head coach.
Came up in the Phillies organization, all the way to AAA, and then signed with the New York Mets. Made his major league debut April 1, 1997 and hung around all year for Manager Bobby Valentine, playing 47 major league games as a utility player. He had even pitched in some minor league games.
Shipped to the Pittsburgh Pirates the next year, playing 13 MLB games in 1998. Finished out his career in the minors again, with the Redbirds of the St Louis Cardinals organization.
Became a high school coach, won two state championships, coached a prospect league team, then got on as an assistant at SEMO. Then became SEMO head coach and won the Ohio Valley Conference three times.
Then became Mizzou head coach.
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Posted on 3/19/23 at 7:14 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
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junior college Jefferson College in Jeff City, MO.
No. Jefferson College is in Hillsboro, MO.
Posted on 3/19/23 at 7:15 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
It’s a good story and he seems like a great dude, but it’s a results oriented business at the end of the day and we haven’t seen much so far. Maybe this season he breaks through
Posted on 3/19/23 at 7:21 pm to KCM0Tiger
If we were still in the Big 12 he would have a few regionals under his belt, but the SEC is such a meat grinder that you can be pretty good and still have an awful conference record. Mizzou invests by far the lowest amount of any school on baseball and honestly I don't think Mizzou has really been the worst program on average since he got here so he is really an overachiever relative to the investment. If they don't make a regional this year he probably gets fired but I don't know that he should unless Mizzou plans on investing in baseball, which seems insane with the climate we deal with and the conference we're in.
Posted on 3/19/23 at 7:43 pm to NEMizzou
Everyone keeps carrying on about moving conferences being all about money. How come Missouri continues to not give a damn about college baseball despite the larger payout from the SEC you came into this conference for
"If it's a priority, you shouln't need to find more revenue for it"
"If it's a priority, you shouln't need to find more revenue for it"
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Posted on 3/19/23 at 8:13 pm to Porker Face
We will spend our money how we like.
Thanks.
Bitch.
Thanks.
Bitch.
Posted on 3/19/23 at 9:21 pm to the808bass
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We will spend our money how we like.
Serious question, where is the money being spent? Do you get many donations as well? With the recruiting area in the big cities around there it looks like you could have a monopoly on that talent. There seems to be no urgency in athletics there.
I’m not trying to be an a-hole, just curious why there isn’t a push to move forward in all sports.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 6:56 am to the808bass
We know. You prioritize cleaning poop swastikas off bathroom walls, regrowing grass killed off by student protests, paying out to students hit by the university presidents car, and football coach DUI fees over college baseball
Each school has its own priorities
Each school has its own priorities
Posted on 3/20/23 at 7:25 am to Clark14
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Serious question, where is the money being spent? Do you get many donations as well? With the recruiting area in the big cities around there it looks like you could have a monopoly on that talent. There seems to be no urgency in athletics there.
We are so far behind in facilities compared to the rest of the SEC that most of our money is getting dumped into upgrades. We are essentially playing catch up from years of not spending money in athletics. We are just now realizing if we want to be successful, we need to spend money, which when we are successful, we bring in more revenue. They forgot basic economics for awhile, spend money to make money. If we focused on baseball and moved some money buckets around to increase spending there, I feel we could have a great team. The talent pool in STL for baseball is tremendous. Plus add in all the big jucos in the midwest that pump kids out, we could lock them down (Crowder, jeffco, Iowa Western, Johnson County, John A Logan, Parkland, Heartland, etc.).
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Posted on 3/20/23 at 7:29 am to Harry Rex Vonner
Mizzou really dodged a bullet when they turned down Vitello
Posted on 3/20/23 at 8:52 am to MizzouFan13
Yep, literally decades of neglect. Last decade nearly 250 large and still going into football. NCAA promised us a regional, and we built a palace of a softball stadium. Finally dropped serious money on a BB coach. Baseball is waiting it's turn.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 8:52 am to MizzouFan13
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The talent pool in STL for baseball is tremendous. Plus add in all the big jucos in the midwest that pump kids out, we could lock them down (Crowder, jeffco, Iowa Western, Johnson County, John A Logan, Parkland, Heartland, etc.).
Crowder College belongs to us baw
Posted on 3/20/23 at 9:29 am to Harry Rex Vonner
Like i said, if we improve our program and push some money into baseball, we would have a chance with them. Its hard to sell mizzou baseball to recruits when we are competing with Arkansas, LSU, Vandy etc.
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Posted on 3/20/23 at 11:48 am to Clark14
Not trying to be snarky; I think Mizzou views athletics as an arm of the university that should contribute to the endowment, or at least it should pay for some of the education-side expenses.
If I were an accountant or financial adviser, I'd be advising many SEC programs to spend less as a % of their athletic revenues.
I also think the Mizzou athletic department has been clueless for a while.
If I were an accountant or financial adviser, I'd be advising many SEC programs to spend less as a % of their athletic revenues.
I also think the Mizzou athletic department has been clueless for a while.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 12:45 pm to deputyfife
Babs Uehling clearly stated all that, and we're still flushing her crap out of the system 40 years later.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 5:51 pm to Drydock
I don't have a problem with that viewpoint per se, but her biggest problem was in not spending at least some money to maintain and expand facilities as revenues grew. And this was when Mizzou's attendance was pretty good, whether the team was, compared nationally.
Her single biggest blunder was thinking that college sports on tv was a fad.
May she be buried in Kansas.
Her single biggest blunder was thinking that college sports on tv was a fad.
May she be buried in Kansas.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 6:30 pm to deputyfife
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May she be buried in Kansas.
Mercy…
Posted on 3/20/23 at 7:44 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
Peter principle wins again.
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