re: POLL: How bad is the Schloss move from Texas A&M to Texas

This was a step worse than Tubberville's pine box

D.

Still don’t get the uproar. He left a middle of the road program for one of the top 2-3 jobs in the sport. He’s getting a massive raise and will have a significantly better quality of life because of it.

If Schloss left Baylor for the Texas job, my guess is the Baylor fans would be disappointed, but understanding. Aggies just have a massive sense of entitlement, despite having no historical success.

Well except the part Notre Dame isn’t within a 3 hour drive and a Big Rival.

But other than that you are right. lol

Yes, you better get some popcorn. Don’t think for a second that A&M will sit idle and let this happen. If you think they won’t come after Vitello and Jay Johnson, you’re naive. Money talks, and A&M has plenty of it. Don’t kid yourself, … LSU and TN can’t compete in that arena.

The market has been reset.

College football has been ruined, and college baseball is not far behind.

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As bad as it gets.

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Think about how mad we as LSU fans were when Saban left the NFL for Alabama. That was coming to the same conference with time spent in the NFL. Saban did not shite on LSU. He went to pursue an NFL dream. It didnt work out and he took the best gig possible (just so happened to be bama). Bama was not, nor will be LSU's primary rival. That was a 9/10 Richter scale situation

Quitting the day after losing a natty to run to your bitter rival as they slide into the conference is a 12/10

For me quite honestly I never reacted that way towards Nick.
He went to the NFL it didn’t work out and ended up back in the SEC.
I really didn’t care, I loved Nick for putting us back on the map.
Had he left us directly and went somewhere maybe, but he turned us around and brought us a Title and some of my fondest memories as a fan.

E) dgaf, coaches leave for other schools (or get fired) EVERY single year.

Hard to remember a bigger dick slap.

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Kiffin from Tennessee to USC bad

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Not that bad considering Kiffin was a former USC coach and had spent his entire pre-Tennessee coaching career on the west coast. Not to mention, USC was viewed as a much stronger program than Tenn. at the time.

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Riley from Oklahoma to USC bad

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Surprising because of his success at OU. But I think you could at least form an argument that in the new age of NIL Los Angeles would be more attractive than Norman for recruits.

I can't think of a change that really rivals this one. Maybe Tuberville from Ole Miss to Auburn. But even that one isn't on the same level. For a few reasons. Texas has a much greater baseball history than A&M. But not at the moment. That was because of Schloss. He was having great success at A&M: 3 seasons, 2 CWS appearances, 1 NC game appearance. It's not like he had to go elsewhere because he tapped out the potential A&M. They were as close to winning a NC as one could be without doing so. Also, it's not like A&M is a school with no money. They can (and likely would have) pay him a very high salary. This wasn't a jump from, say, Arizona to LSU where LSU will clearly pay top dollar for a HC while Arizona just doesn't have a big desire to do so. It couldn't have been strictly a money issue.

Even worse than it being a defection to a hated rival is the fact not only Schloss, but the entire A&M staff clearly made the decision to bolt well before the championship game. I don't know how long before that decision was reached, but it was clear they coached most of (maybe all) of the CWS knowing they were bailing. Which leads to the question: "Did the A&M administration know that? Or were they blindsided by the defection?

The icing on the cake was jumping on the A&M reporter's arse in response to a question about a job he knew he AND much of his staff had ALREADY accepted. A response where he made himself out to be the greatest guy in the world for taking the A&M job knowing in less than 24 hours in would be announced he was leaving.