Has Sean Allen expressed a desire to come here as head coach, either in public or privately? I would think that with it being his alma mater and entering the Big 12 soon he would jump at the chance.
Didn’t he turn down a bigger offer a few years ago? I think he would be a great choice
It really is mind numbing to see how the program has fallen:
- Great new facilities
- Moving to the Big12
- All of that top tier talent just a drive away
- Over-all lack of fundamentals
I just don’t get it. It is as though the management/coaching is mailing it in and/or they lost the team.
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He turned Baylor down 7 years ago.
I think he would have to be blown away with a great offer because he loves DBU.
An opportunity to coach in the Big 12 with a program oozing with potential? And pay him double what he’s making now? Maybe.
You never know unless you ask.
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He is at a point in his career where he is ready for a head job.
I don’t think he would leave UT just to be the head guy at Incarnate Word type school…… But to come home and resurrect this great program as the head guy?!
I don’t think he turns us down.
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I hope we have more options than Allen because at the pace Pez is working Allen will be on his third CWS program when the position opens.
I’ve always been a college baseball fan but I’m not an aficionado. I have learned a lot of about the process by being on this board. I support whomever you guys say to support.
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We might get Berkman but that’s only a theory
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
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PLEASE NO.
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ONE year as a HC.
18-36 at HBU. 6th place.
Blown out in in 2 straight in the Southland Tourney.
That is some theory.
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I really like you Strake…. But as Sampson says, he’s not getting hired here…. Does not have the resume yet.
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I also hope this isn’t the case XD
In terms of him actually getting hired. Don’t want him much.
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I doubt he’s even on a long list. We’re honestly better off with what we have than if we hired that clown show.
If you look at when HISD and other close in districts stopped producing elite talent it says a lot about how us and Rice have fallen as we tended to have an easier time getting them and they produced -
When your forced to start recruiting 30 miles out in your own city for big 12 talent which basically is halfway to somewhere else then you need to have other areas on speed dial
And heaven forbid if they up scholarship limitations then you know teams will stack
Our issues have absolutely nothing to do with HISD or any such districts. All of the suburban districts are a huge benefit that we aren’t capitalizing on. It’s not that we can’t get “Big 12 talent” - it’s that we aren’t even trying.
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Pollard has me nearly believing that they aren’t trying. But the question is why?
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We think we know better the talent we need to win?
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We’re intimidated by the stars and don’t want to try to sell the program?
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Combination of the two.
(Hint: this is a ploy to draw out the staff that lurk on here to explain it.)
If HISD was what it was in the last decades - it helped us as that athlete understood what they were signing up for - when Rice was rolling it helped that Bellaire and Lamar were strong
Some of these suburban kids ain’t set foot inside the beltway on a consistent basis so their not as easy to convince like we think plus their getting pushed A&M and UT love that far
You better have a wide net to cast in that sport
That’s really not the way baseball recruiting works, for the most part. If UH opens up a “prospect camp,” they’re going to get kids from everywhere, and they’ll get top kids if the coach is engaged with programs area-wide. Baseball players in the suburbs aren’t afraid of the UH campus.
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JV of Clear Springs was a UH commit but blew up and saw the troubles of the program and changed to Arizona State. I think he stays in town if the program was doing okay.
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