. We shall see how the new guy does. Good luck to him and us.
Just a Pop quiz question…how many SEC teams entered the tournament in 22 and 23 and how many B1G teams entered the tournament in those years? When you get the answer you will see how far the gap actually is and how winning the B1G actually is less of an accomplishment than winning the Sunbelt.
You need dominant pitching and situational hitting to win. Had Hess not went down then we probably would’ve survived another game in Hoover and could have potentially won in Winston Salem. Right now Florida and TCU are probably the best teams entering Omaha and it’s because of their deep bullpens and hot streak of hitting.
well 81usaf92, I see your concerns and they are valid (currently). As far as recruiting goes, I can imagine it is significantly harder to get guys to leave the South to go to a place like Maryland versus stay in your own backyard and go to a power 5 school in the SEC. So, have to wait and see if he can do better. I look at a guy like Bakich at Clemson who was a Michigan before that. He is really good. But he is a good recruiter and coach (assistant to Corbin before Michigan as well). I look for Clemson to become a major power. I am hoping for something like Bakich. Back to Vaughn, he has had some solid offensive guys recently, that is what we need as well. I am optimistic on this hire, was on CBB as well. We need someone that can get us winning those 2-3 games a year that we always seem to look back on and go “that one hurts”.
Offer Butch Thompson 1.5 million and make him say no would be my first move. At best you have probably the best coach in the SEC considering the circumstances at Auburn (the same things that you see at Alabama) and at worst you show Alabama is ready to win and Auburn is sweating and would create an arms race in SEC because you just signaled that you are willing to pay top half of conference for a great head coach. After that you go after a decent SEC, ACC, or Sunbelt guy with 800k- million dollars. Right now I’m more impressed with how Troy’s guy can pull in guys that MSU and guys in PAC 12 country than a guy who won a conference in which no one cares to play baseball.
Wake is good but I don’t think they get to the championship round. Playing in a cracker box could hurt them when they all of the sudden play in a huge ballpark like Omaha. Most of those homeruns that they hit against us this weekend are probably dead at the wall and they will be going against better hitters and pitching in game 2 than they have faced all year. What they are truly fortunate to have is that LSU has to play Tennessee game one and will have to burn Skeens. However LSU’s pitching seems to be getting better as the season has gone on.
Byrne is getting a guy that knows how to coach baseball and motivate kids plain and simple. You can downplay the BIG10 championships but he got his players to win championships when playing against comparable competition. Let's see what he can do with a much larger and deeper talent pool coaching at Bama. Your statement he hired somebody that he can pay less and is not going to make demands is ridiculous. You are incredibly mis-guided if you think Byrne made his decision based on your theory.
Do you have any idea what SEC baseball recruiting means. Because this statement makes me feel like you don’t…. Like 90% of the people who comment on Bama baseball. We are basically the baseball equivalent of Nebraska football. Any stud pitcher in state is automatically unavailable to us the second he throws a 98 mph fastball 9.99 X out of 10. 90% of our roster couldn’t start at LSU, Arkansas, Vandy, and the big dogs of the SEC no matter if Rob Vaughn is our coach or if Tim Corbin is our coach. So the talent pool isn’t as plentiful as you seem to think because when a top recruit is getting a 100% scholarship and a lot NIL money to attend Vandy and a 30% scholarship and a very small amount of NIL money from Bama he most likely isn’t choosing Bama even if he has lived in Tuscaloosa his whole life.
I am an ex D1 scholarship baseball player so I know baseball and recruiting very well. What is your baseball background? You don't seem to understand his recruiting pool is fixing to open wide open now that he is at Alabama. You can be the biggest ogre in the world and act like this was the worst hire in the history of baseball but I am going to be optimistic. You probably thought Oats was a horrible hire since he came from little ole Buffalo and had never been in the SEC and could not possibly recruit. If I am recalling correctly we beat Auburn this season in the series and tourney and they were 0-2 in the SEC tourney and 0-2 in a sub-regional. I am sure you will come back with another negative post but I am out.
Actually I was one of the biggest optimists of oats. Might wanna go check the thread that I constantly bring up instead of making accusations out of spite.
Your entitled to your opinion but I'm am an optimist and hence my replies. I only mentioned my baseball background since you implied I knew nothing about baseball recruiting. Glad you are done with it and I am also.
If you want to talk about silliness… comparing a head count sport to an equivalency sport is beyond silly. Vaughn is going to have convince a bunch of players to come play for Alabama and pay 50k to 80k upon graduation while Nate oats doesn’t have to convince anyone to pay a dime to come to Alabama. Meanwhile Vaughn also steps into a league where 12 teams have lottery and endowment scholarships and his team doesn’t, where their baseball players don’t have to pay anything or very affordable costs at most. Something he never had to worry at Maryland….
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