So baseball coach question

It’s our answer to having a coach who probably could have been canned after his fourth year with a losing record pull everything together in year 5 to Lind a National seed.

It’s part skepticism and part tongue in cheek reaction to a guy basically doing what was highly improbable

It's tradition.

Because he’s a total a-hole. I know from personally dealings with him. He is a snake on the recruiting side, and not in a good way. Over the last year, he has pissed off a lot of high school coaches and travel ball coaches. His time will be up very soon.

Im honestly not convinced he is a good coach. I just think he's recruited well the past couple years and brought in some good assistants.

I still cant forgive him for basically not trying in the SEC Tournament last year, so the team went 0-2, and rode that bad momentum into a NCAA Regionals loss to Duke of all teams.

I think he’s good not great. Hard to look at the development of guys like Talley and McGovern over 4 years and not see something to the coaching aspect. Bringing on good assistants, too, is a part of his job and he has been doing well in that respect.

As for him being a-hole, he absolutely is but I fail to see that as some major flaw. Most baseball coaches I’ve known over the years are total assholes but that doesn’t mean they’re bad coaches. In fact, some of the biggest jerks made some of the best coaches because they weren’t worried about hurting feelings so much as keeping players honest and accountable for their individual development and commitment to the guys around them. Travel ball coaches don’t have to like him but the results speak for themselves; he’s winning and guys are developing into better players.

Fire Stricklin.

Will you do the same with Kirby?

Maybe so, but Stricklin seemingly has gone out of his way to antagonize and dismiss the real influencers of players at the HS level here in Georgia. He is not welcome anywhere near the East Cobb program and several of the other major travel ball programs.

I don't see Kirby handling the same situation the same way Stricklin does.

I agree that it’s the nature of the beast, but when the kid is part of your family, it does hit real close to home. When you go to events with the coach and he blows sunshine up a 17 year old kid, only to drop him at the last minute. He was only 2 out of the 7 kids they recruited for 2019 that they offered a full scholarship to. The. To tell him when it was pretty much too late to sign anywhere else but a Juco. I know Kirby does it, but maybe not in such a shitty way. We may have a couple of good years in baseball, but once he starts burning bridges like he has, it’s gonna decline quickly.