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Posted on 6/11/24 at 1:36 pm to Morpheus
USCe is taking over $400k/year off our books, so I'm happy about this.
Posted on 6/11/24 at 1:37 pm to BilbeauTBaggins
No shite? Don’t know this.
So we have that going for us
So we have that going for us
Posted on 6/11/24 at 1:52 pm to Morpheus
He was still on payroll for the last two years, possibly three.
At one point he was being paid that much to be an "ambassador" for the university.
At one point he was being paid that much to be an "ambassador" for the university.
Posted on 6/11/24 at 3:01 pm to Morpheus
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SC hiring Paul is equivalent to the Les Miles hire by Kansas.
No. It would be the equivalent of Les retiring in good standing from LSU for several years and then going to coach South Carolina.
Posted on 6/11/24 at 6:03 pm to Morpheus
South Carolina has a history of playing baseball on an elite level, but that was a few years ago. Now, all college sports, are a complete cluster with NIL and the transfer portal. His biggest obstacle will be how quickly he can adjust or not because it's here to stay!
Posted on 6/11/24 at 6:05 pm to tigerbait2010
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Maineri is a better baseball coach than Les is football coach
I disagree how many teams did each coach waste the talent and fall short of a NC ….. I’d say pawl do that more often
This post was edited on 6/11/24 at 6:05 pm
Posted on 6/11/24 at 6:21 pm to FredbullTN
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It’s an odd hire but good for Paul if he feels like he is up for the job! Might have just missed it and was getting bored in retirement.
This. I think Paul probably felt his time was running out here, and it was either retire or get fired in a year or two.
If just had the itch to manage again, I would have really preferred for it to NOT be in the SEC, but whatever. It's a great opportunity for him.
He led a clean, respectable program here and gave us a national championship and a few other great years. I'll not hold him any ill will.
This post was edited on 6/11/24 at 6:21 pm
Posted on 6/11/24 at 7:26 pm to Morpheus
Wrong. South Carolina has a way better chance getting to Omaha than Kansas had even getting in the top 25.
Posted on 6/11/24 at 8:13 pm to Morpheus
Man wants to work, then that is ok
Posted on 6/11/24 at 9:52 pm to Morpheus
More like Lou Holtz hire a few years back.
Posted on 6/11/24 at 10:40 pm to stang14
Gotta tip your cap to Paul Manieri….
Then just move on.
Posted on 6/11/24 at 11:11 pm to TigerSaurus
He turned the tigers into a mediocre program and sucked the life out of the box…
Posted on 6/12/24 at 1:13 am to tigers1956
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He turned the tigers into a mediocre program and sucked the life out of the box…
By some metrics (SEC records) this is true. But here's how we finished up in his last 5 years:
'17 - national seed; runner up
'18 - lost in regional to OR St (national champs)
'19 - lost in supers to FSU
'20 - season scrubbed
'21 - lost in supers to UTenn
By our standards, that's meh. But perhaps only here.
Posted on 6/12/24 at 8:49 am to Klingler7
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Unless he needs the money, it doesn’t make sense to me.
I don't think it's about the money. He misses coaching.
Posted on 6/12/24 at 9:26 am to Morpheus
It's more like USCocks hiring Spurrier in FB, in my opinion
Posted on 6/12/24 at 9:56 am to Alt26
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Paul didn't single-handedly choose to go away from the "Gorilla ball" approach of the 1990's. The NCAA significantly changed the bats in 2010 which cut the HR rate nearly in half in 1 year. That, coupled with the greater emphasis in cracking down on steroids at all levels in the 2000's led to all of that throughout baseball. Skips teams had a lot of juiced up dudes swinging ridiculously light metal bats. Certainly, I'm not saying he was "wrong" in that approach. Everyone was doing the same thing. LSU was just much better at it. But the game changed.
absolutely. Even Ray Tanner went away from Gorilla ball to small ball.
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