Earley knows he’s a dead man walking

Eh, if they didn’t hire him, they’d whole team was in the portal and they would have sucked anyways. With the talent they had coming back it made sense to try to ride that talent. He was signed to a short contract with a small buyout. They can fire him and not be in any worse shape than they would have been regardless.

Trev was hired to get finances in order after the Jimbo debacle. I have no doubt he was thrilled to hire Early due to the minimal salary and buyout (which I think was too high). I’d love to think we get a proven coach to replace Early but I’m afraid the AD will be focused on another bargain hire. Boosters might not go for that again. My hope last year was Vaughn and push again.

From what I’ve heard there is enough support at this point to fire Early. Won’t be surprised to see us part ways with him in May.

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It’s never a good idea to allow the convicts to run the prison. Always should seek to get the best possible coach for long term success.

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Exactly. Players come and go especially these days with the portal. The right guy will create a decent roster in no time.

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I have no doubt he was thrilled to hire Early due to the minimal salary and buyout

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What? I get the Jimbo deal but this is not sound logic. Baseball just came off a significant season and you’re worried about appeasing a few 20yos and saving money? lolll

And don’t tell me Grahovac, Lavoilette, Prager et al didn’t get broken off big time in NIL. Yet, let’s just budget-shop on the coach

As an LSU fan, I’m glad Alberts is there because he’ll limit that athletic department. How he rationalizes devaluing coaching is absurd.

He’s asleep at the wheel at this point.

Down 4-2, let’s the pitcher walk the bases loaded with 0 outs and keeps him in.

It’s Sunday. Empty the damn pen.


There is nothing left to play for at this point. The pitching coach needs to be fired ASAP.


Make the announcement and start the search now. Don’t wait till the end of the season.

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Eh, if they didn’t hire him, they’d whole team was in the portal and they would have sucked anyways. With the talent they had coming back it made sense to try to ride that talent. He was signed to a short contract with a small buyout. They can fire him and not be in any worse shape than they would have been regardless.

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Exactly. Hiring him was the right move. Didn’t work and you are now right back where you were a year ago, minus watching your entire team go to SEC rivals. Most of the big pieces are headed to the draft now.

Basically it was a gamble and it didn’t pay off.

We are about to pump 80M into baseball facilities.

So the next hire needs to be a good one.

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Hiring him was the right move

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The right move would have been to offer O’Sullivan or someone with a proven Omaha pedigree around $2M/yr to have the best shot of assuring A&M sustains as a top program. Even more important given that your old coach adds to what you have to compete against annually within your own state and conference.

A&M is literally one of a handful of programs that has a shot at breaking even in baseball most years, and, even if they didn’t, the support is there at the highest levels. You don’t take irresponsible gambles with something of this importance.

This is the price you pay now — a completely wasted year.

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The right move would have been to offer O’Sullivan or someone with a proven Omaha pedigree around $2M/yr to have the best shot of assuring A&M sustains as a top program. Even more important given that your old coach adds to what you have to compete against annually within your own state and conference.

A&M is literally one of a handful of programs that has a shot at breaking even in baseball most years, and, even if they didn’t, the support is there at the highest levels. You don’t take irresponsible gambles with something of this importance.

This is the price you pay now — a completely wasted year.

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If you don’t hire Earley, you lose literally every piece off of that team. You not only lose them, you lose them to teams that are going to walk in your stadium and rub it in your face. You want to talk about demoralizing a fanbase? Try a season like they are having right now combined with Jace Laviolette wearing purple and gold, Kent and Grahovac in burnt orange.

You were also already so deep in the offseason it would be practically impossible to flip the entire roster by that point.

Earley was a gamble but it was practically a no-win scenario.

The move now is to lock up a winner. Earley will be canned before the season or the second it ends and they will have plenty of time to make a hire and that coach will have time to reset the roster

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If you don’t hire Earley, you lose literally every piece off of that team

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I absolutely hate this mentality. It’s a losers mentality imo

In reality, what happened was you hired a coach with zero skins on the wall as head coach and expected him to overcome all of those unknowns and just learn fast on the job in the toughest conference in the world, which is now resulting in an absolute and embarrassing disaster unfolding right in front of us all.

Instead of giving a proven coach a chance to build a foundation this year, you wasted this season and now must hit the reset button completely with a likely firing, buyout, and losing many of those star players you cared so much to bring back and get no production out of.

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You were also already so deep in the offseason it would be practically impossible to flip the entire roster by that point.

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I agree Trev panicked. But A&M has plenty of money in NIL they would have been fine with the right hire. Most of the portal activity was in July and a new coach would have likely brought some of his own good players too. It would not have been a complete rebuilding season at a place like A&M.