Top 9 highest paid baseball coaches come out of the SEC.
Chris Pollard-Duke
O'Connor from Virginia, who would be difficult and expensive to hire away
Tom Walter-Wake Forest
Maybe Cliff Godwin-ECU it is his alma mater thou...
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Top 9 highest paid baseball coaches come out of the SEC.
Chris Pollard-Duke
O'Connor from Virginia, who would be difficult and expensive to hire away
Tom Walter-Wake Forest
Maybe Cliff Godwin-ECU it is his alma mater thou...
Hiring men's coaches in the big 3 is not like hiring women's coaches. It is much easier to overpay for a woman's hire. Football, basketball, and baseball are expensive and leave little room for error. It's easy when you have UT's budget to look like a genius when hiring women's coaches.... right now, football ~ boosters hired Sark, basketball ~ Beard was a genius hire but they flubbed it with Terry (this disaster is coming), and now baseball. Pierce is a holdover and is lagging. He needs to go in favor of a pro-NIL coach. Can CDC do it... sure if he pays enough otherwise he is going to have to really work at it and do his homework. Sure he's been better than Deloss but our men's sports could be better.
Good points in that - if you are going to play a sport, you should play to win. So congrats to volleyball, swimming, softball and women's hoops.
But I don't see any threads on here following these sports. The only sports that the masses care about are -
Football - Sark looks like a keeper.
BBall - Terry is mediocre. On a good day.
Baseball - I don't follow this closely. But the posters here ain't happy with Pierce.
That's one for three. The other two are "meh".
We have threads of the different sports just nothing like Football, Baseball, Basketball cause the other sports win Nattys not the top 3.....
Your right - the rowing thread has 6 posts, and the softball thread has 17. Football recruiting has 3000+....
I’ll throw out another name is at least call. Tim Corbin. He built a power house at Vandy. Not sure in an NIL era he can keep that up. Give him Texas resources and look out.
Also Skip Johnson at OU. He was Augie’d pitching coach for years. Probably should have replaced him.
Also Skip Johnson at OU. He was Augie’d pitching coach for years. Probably should have replaced him.
There is a Volleyball Thread as well with our back to back National Champs
I’d love Corbin but I just checked and he’s already the highest paid NCAA baseball coach. O’Sullivan turned us down before Pierce. Of course that was pre CDC. Would he move to Texas? Doubt it. They love him there and he’s won it before (and might again this year). Van Horn ain’t leaving Arky. O’Conner? Maybe.
I think it’s gonna have to be a new up comer from a smaller successful program (a la Augie). Or a newbie that has some magic. The Tennessee coach, Vitello, rings a bell. It took him awhile but he’s built a hell of a program there from grass roots. He reminds me of Tulo, or visaversa. Hmmm.🤔
Tulo understands money. He’s got plenty after his MLB career. He also knows talent and I assume knows how to sell it. I really don’t think he’s in the hunt but if CDC said he’s the guy I’d buy all in. Otherwise we’ve got Pierce for another year and wait and see. Team was decent this year but he’s missing pitchers. LSU won the formula last year with a new coach. Why? Anyone have any data on how much Skeens earned by transferring to LSU? I’d have played for free for a date with Olivia. Maybe that was the secret. Who else is out there that makes a splash that is willing to leave where they’re at?
* Getting into the list of names, here are the names that have been floated and a few quick notes on each.
Jim Schlossnagle (Texas A&M) - could this one still happen? Sure, anything is possible, but based on what sources have said today, it feels like a bridge too far.
Jay Johnson (LSU) - Most will scoff at this based on his recent national title and the school he is at, but there is mutual interest. The biggest hindrance to Johnson is his pay and the amount of money it will take to pry him away from Marucci, I mean LSU.
Tony Vitello (Tennessee) - Maserati Tony was never really under consideration. CDC and Tony know each other from their days at TCU and as mentioned before, there is a personality conflict there. Reports are surfacing today that Tony is about to sign a sizable extension and you can close the book on this one becoming reality.
Brian O'Connor (Virginia) - Elite defense and pitching. On the surface, not the sexiest name, but once you look at how he runs his programs and the success he has had, you start to love what he could bring. I haven't yet had anyone say, he is out. I also haven't had anyone say that there is a huge mutual interest.
Erik Bakich (Clemson) - Young, energetic, develops, and knows how to get the most out of a program. Bakich in my opinion would be a slam dunk hire. Texas would be getting one of the premier young head coaches in the nation. His salary also makes this a very attractive option.
Skip Johnson (Oklahoma) - There are certainly boosters that would like to see it happen, I just don't get the feeling talking to folks around Texas that he would be considered.
Rob Vaughn (Alabama) - A true dark horse in the race, he has only been at Bama for a year, but he was mighty impressive at Maryland and is highly regarded in the baseball circles. If this was 3-5 years down the line, he probably gets a look, but unfortunately, probably not in contention at this juncture.
Jim Schlossnagle (Texas A&M) - could this one still happen? Sure, anything is possible, but based on what sources have said today, it feels like a bridge too far.
Jay Johnson (LSU) - Most will scoff at this based on his recent national title and the school he is at, but there is mutual interest. The biggest hindrance to Johnson is his pay and the amount of money it will take to pry him away from Marucci, I mean LSU.
Tony Vitello (Tennessee) - Maserati Tony was never really under consideration. CDC and Tony know each other from their days at TCU and as mentioned before, there is a personality conflict there. Reports are surfacing today that Tony is about to sign a sizable extension and you can close the book on this one becoming reality.
Brian O'Connor (Virginia) - Elite defense and pitching. On the surface, not the sexiest name, but once you look at how he runs his programs and the success he has had, you start to love what he could bring. I haven't yet had anyone say, he is out. I also haven't had anyone say that there is a huge mutual interest.
Erik Bakich (Clemson) - Young, energetic, develops, and knows how to get the most out of a program. Bakich in my opinion would be a slam dunk hire. Texas would be getting one of the premier young head coaches in the nation. His salary also makes this a very attractive option.
Skip Johnson (Oklahoma) - There are certainly boosters that would like to see it happen, I just don't get the feeling talking to folks around Texas that he would be considered.
Rob Vaughn (Alabama) - A true dark horse in the race, he has only been at Bama for a year, but he was mighty impressive at Maryland and is highly regarded in the baseball circles. If this was 3-5 years down the line, he probably gets a look, but unfortunately, probably not in contention at this juncture.
Yessir and I thought about that when I posted but I think Texas has several Tommy Tanks. We need pitchers. Yes he had some big hits but he wasn’t the game changer. LSU doesn’t win it without Skeens.
I think Pierce (and the rest of us) was assuming LBJ was gonna be the man this year. He didn’t work out. Good stuff but he throws 100 pitches in 5 innings. Got to give it him for piece milling a decent staff together to get us to where we ended. Grubbs was never in the equation. Whitehead was money but his fastball is tops 85. He was never supposed to be a weekend starter. Hurley was another miss, maybe next year. Does LBJ stay for another year? Would it matter? We’re missing one or two elite starters. Offense is just fine. We had the Big 12 player of the year. They all lagged in the end but it’s tough to keep chasing runs.
Pierce will be gone, and we will be contacting Jay Johnson and Schlossnagle....that's all I have right now
It’ll always be hard to replace coaches at Texas. People don’t want to take the job, because they know it’s an instant target on their back. They know how hard people come after us. They know how hard people hate us. They know we’re everyone’s Super Bowl, World Series, NBA finals, f’ing Stanley Cup.
It’s too much hassle and most coaches straight up don’t have the sack for it.
It’s why we end up with so many that end up being mediocre. They’re never first choices, because the first choices are WAY too chicken shit.
It’s too much hassle and most coaches straight up don’t have the sack for it.
It’s why we end up with so many that end up being mediocre. They’re never first choices, because the first choices are WAY too chicken shit.
This is true. In the past, we let a lot of coaches hang. We didn't support them financially like most schools in the men's top 3 sports. Meaning, we didn't buy players. Today we can legally do it. Pierce isn't doing it for whatever reason. We should be able to stack a lineup every year. In fact, I know we can pay better than triple A. There is no reason outside of stubborn incompetence that we should out of the top 4 every year with NIL.
I think Schloss would be great. He appears to have made good use of the portal.
Did he and CDC have a good relationship while at purple baylor?
If that ends up being the case I don’t blame CDC for trying but man both those seem like heavy lifts.
It will be rough to get Schlossnagle due to he will have everyone back expect 1 player or 2. And Jay man it's LSU cause of him they have one more title than us. Those are definitely the top choices going in......
Unfortunately, I think this is going to be the case with all the names on Buck Bomb’s list. The top tier guys are not leaving their gigs for a minor bump in salary. It’s just not worth leaving the place where they’re treated like royalty to go deal with all the peripheral noise that comes with being Texas Baseball. To get them, we’d have to basically send them a blank contract for them to fill in the amount. I hope I’m wrong and we get “the guy” but I’m betting we get another good coach from a smaller school that has overachieved and we get the “think what he can do with the resources Texas can bring to the table…”.
Aaannnddd this is what separates the men from boys in the AD world. It's easy to poach the coaches in non revenue sports. The top 3 are difficult.
CDC in his previous hires hasn’t been afraid to go after the big names
When he needed a softball coach he went and got Mike White who ran a top 5 program at Oregon
When he needed a women’s basketball coach he went and got Vic Shaffer
When he needed a men’s basketball coach he landed Chris Beard
He replaced the best swimming coach ever with probably the next best swimming coach
Going back to his TCU days when he needed a basketball coach he talked Jamie Dixon in to coming back to TCU
So I’m not surprised that he’s going after a couple big names. But there are definetly some hurdles In the way. Yea Texas has resources to get it done but so do LSU and A&M
When he needed a softball coach he went and got Mike White who ran a top 5 program at Oregon
When he needed a women’s basketball coach he went and got Vic Shaffer
When he needed a men’s basketball coach he landed Chris Beard
He replaced the best swimming coach ever with probably the next best swimming coach
Going back to his TCU days when he needed a basketball coach he talked Jamie Dixon in to coming back to TCU
So I’m not surprised that he’s going after a couple big names. But there are definetly some hurdles In the way. Yea Texas has resources to get it done but so do LSU and A&M
Ok negative Neely, who ARE the men in the AD world? I’d put CDC up against any of them. He’s only been named AD if the year, and won 3 of the last 4 Directors Cup.
Uh. Fullerton and Augie were not small time. Augie was the top coach.
Van Horn ain’t leaving because he’s like all the other dumbass swine, thinks they’re better than they are. But DVH would absolutely kill it at Texas.
Corbin May be looking for a change in scenery. A new challenge.
O’Sullivan is least likely which is why he’s last on my list.
O’Connor might like bump in pay.
Tadlock wouldn’t be too bad either. I have much respect for him from way back in the day of his JUCO days
O'Connor will be getting a phone call. But he will be made aware of the fact that there will never be a 3rd.
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