No money
All the investment is (and rightfully so) going to football / basketball
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They had enough money to re-sign him after the 2023 season. He should have been gone after the 2021 season.
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Yeah, Iâm not buying that excuse. We could definitely have hired someone cheaper who would have at least delivered similar results, if not better. Either way we would have come out ahead.
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Coaching searches cost money, and you canât just keep hiring and firing every 2 years.
If you go for an above average coach, then they will likely have expectations (âI will take the job subject to being promised facility upgrades, more NIL support, etc.â)
If you go for a similar or cheaper coach, then you would just be wasting money from what it took to get the coach here in the first place.
Todd Whittington needs firing, I agree. But the logistics at the moment donât make much sense.
No, what doesnât make any sense is continuing to reward incompetence bury the program even deeper. He wonât get another contract here, and weâll be better off for it.
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I think heâs a goner after this year, but itâs going to be another rebuild whoever we hire
We wonât get M64 right away
You donât need a coaching search manâŠ.you can get in the car, drive three hours west on I-10âŠ.then hop
On I-35 and interview another.,thatâs two really good coaches, and fly a couple in, one from LA and another from South CarolinaâŠ.this does not take some National SearchâŠ.
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You are thinking this is like replacing a basketball or football coachâŠ.its not.
College baseball
Is a different animal.
And no itâs not gonna take long to be back in regionals with the right coach.
Two years tops.
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You may be right, but Iâd be shocked if our admin. didnât at least nominally/notionally call for a ânationalâ search.
if we canât afford to compete in baseball then we should shut down the program and put the money towards Womenâs Beach Volleyball
Maybe gymnastics
Wrestling or bowling has my vote.
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I wrestled in HS and enjoyed it maybe even more than baseball.
Awesome sport that teaches so many life lessons.
Would love to see a wrestling teamâŠ.although you think we get our butts whipped in baseball you donât even want to see what the boys from Oklahoma st, Arizona St and Iowa st would do to us. 
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Wrestling is a sport that will let you know immediately whether you are in shape or not. Some of the longest two minutes of my life back in HS.
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Because you got the pin right? 
And you are so rightâŠ.i forced my son to wrestling his first two years of HS and it really helped with his agility on the baseball field.
It also gave him a huge boost of self confidence and taught him to never take sh-t off of anyone no matter how big they were.
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Noble was fired for âmistreatingâ a player after said playerâs dad created a stem winder of a word document Web page at âfireraynernoble.comâ and the AD at the time freaked out. It was more BS than the Mike Leach thing with Craig James.
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I hadnât thought about that comparison, but there are a lot of similarities, and the programs both suffered greatly because of it.
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Yeah it was mostly to do with inadequate playing time and not properly developing his slider.
Meanwhile I remember many games where olâ Vinny was behind home plate with his sonâs girlfriend (UH basketball player Megan Morton) sitting on his knee. Just an all around weird creepy dude.
If that had anything to do with Nobleâs firing, then Mack Rhoades deserves as much mockery as Vinny got. All Vinnyâs âepic rantâ did was make him look foolish and embarrass Jimmy. It wasnât Nobleâs fault that Jimmy wasnât as good as Vinny thought he could be.
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