re: If you could hire Van Horn, would you?

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All he does is underachieve.

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Some of you have literally no idea how many stars have to align to actually win a national title. And it shows. It’s probably not a coincidence that the No. 1 overall seed has only won the cws once in the current ncaa postseason format, and that was the first year in 1999.

As of July 24, 2021 there’s probably not a single program that wouldn’t trade their recent success for Arkansas’ sans Vanderbilt.

DVH is doing a great job and has catapulted that program since he took over

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Once you take his co** out your mouth

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Just say cock you fricking pussy.

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The whole point of this thread was about how he underachieves then someone pointed out how he won the SEC this year despite being picked 3rd in his own division. If anything it sounds like he overachieved.

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No the point of the thread was whether you would hire DVH… then I said that I don’t discredit him or think he’s a bad coach; I just wouldn’t want to hire him because he has now shown twice that he can’t handle the big time pressure on the big stage. Arguably one of his most talented teams in 2018; choked in the finals. And then arguably one of his most polished/successful teams this year, lost in the supers after being out-coached. From an outsiders perspective; and not having a Razorback bias; those 2 examples bring up some glaring question marks about DVH… you have to start to wonder; if he could not win it all with either of those 2 teams; then how good does a team have to be, to win it under DVH?

He's way better than the guy LSU got.

You seem to not realize the team was not the same after the SEC tournament. Too many holes to fill. He did a magnificent job navigating that through the regular season. They put 21 runs on NC State and lost the last 2 games by 1 run and that team is the hottest in the nation. One of those last 2 games could have gone either way. It sucks it didn't but that's baseball.

Baum started out holding about 4k. DVH elevated that program to huge heights. Have you seen the Baum atmosphere lately? They are pretty much reloading every year now. This thread is dumb as hell.

I would put Arkansas baseball in the upper tier of programs where recruiting shouldn't be an issue. Take Corbin/Vandy. Going way back with Derek Johnson, their program is built on elite pitching. Van Horn seems to have a great hitting team one year, maybe a decent pitching the next. No consistency. Even this last year he relied on Kobbs way too much. I don't think he makes the jump to elite coach until he locks the pitching recruiting down and develops them each year.

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This Arkansas team would be considered one of the greats in Arkansas history...but they didn't make it to Omaha and so the other 10 teams that made it, had better seasons.

Dave did get SEC coach of the year. Sometimes those are given to coaches that did overachieve.

I'm not talking a bout Arkansas on paper which they would be considered one of the best in the SEC but the amount of highly potential draft prospects which is low.

The 2019 Vandy and 2009 LSU teams were simply more talented than this Arkansas team that shouldn't have done as well as they had.

After awhile people are going to look back and see how good of a job DVH did with this team.

Let's just look at the thread title.

DVH has taking Nebraska (of all fricking places) and Arkansas to 8 CWS appearances, and without a fluke play would have a national title.

There is no fricking program in America that would not hire a coach with that resume.

None. Underachieve perception or not, anyone would hire him if they could.

The answer to the dumb fricking question is yes, you hire him if you could.