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Skip would never do something dumb like hire young former players. No on the job training.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 1:46 pm
Posted on 5/24/17 at 1:46 pm
Oh wait.
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Posted on 5/24/17 at 1:49 pm to The Boat
Skip recommended Smoke
Posted on 5/24/17 at 1:51 pm to NorthshoreTiger76
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Skip recommended Smoke
People here love to use the "Skip would never do this" line when discussing things Mainieri does.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 1:53 pm to The Boat
Wasn't he a grad assistant somewhere first? And I want to say he coached back when 2 assistants wasn't the limit. In 93 we had Smoke, Dan, and Rick Smith along with Bianco in his first year here.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 1:54 pm to The Boat
Mike Bianco was the volunteer assistant in his first 4 years or so at LSU. He was never the top pitching coach, nor the top hitting coach.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 1:55 pm to ell_13
He was a GA at NW State
Posted on 5/24/17 at 1:56 pm to Choupique19
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Mike Bianco was the volunteer assistant in his first 4 years or so at LSU. He was never the top pitching coach, nor the top hitting coach.
did college baseball have the same restrictions on the number coaches then as they do now?
Posted on 5/24/17 at 1:56 pm to lsufball19
Thanks.Posted on 5/24/17 at 1:58 pm to lsufball19
He was definitely the "pitching" coach in 1997
Posted on 5/24/17 at 2:00 pm to ell_13
I think he graduated into that. I wanna say Canevari was the pitching coach when Bianco first came to LSU, who btw also only had a few experience as a high school coach and a couple as a grad assistant when he was hired. IMO, years around baseball is more important than years as a coach. I don't think it's necessarily important to have a bunch of years experience as a coach to succeed, as an assistant at least.
This post was edited on 5/24/17 at 2:03 pm
Posted on 5/24/17 at 2:03 pm to ell_13
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Wasn't he a grad assistant somewhere first?
Graduate assistant at Northwestern State for two season which is definitely not enough experience to be hired at a program that recently won a national championship and is building for more.
Whatever Bianco's official position may have been he definitely received on the job training while at LSU.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 2:05 pm to The Boat
Okay. This is a bad example.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 2:06 pm to ell_13
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Okay. This is a bad example.
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ell_13
Good, it's a good example.
Gibbs was the coordinator of baseball operations last season. Definitely learning under Andy C and studying him.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 2:07 pm to The Boat
It's one season doing video analysis vs 6 seasons of actual involvement under skip, smoke, and dan. How the frick is that comparable at all?
Posted on 5/24/17 at 2:08 pm to The Boat
I think the problem is people compare hiring a baseball assistant to that of hiring a football assistant. I do find it funny, though, speaking of football, when this site was mad we didn't hire Kevin Mawae as our OL coach, and he had zero years of experience doing that at the time. But then they get mad at Mainieri for hiring a former player to be a volunteer assistant
Posted on 5/24/17 at 2:10 pm to ell_13
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It's one season doing video analysis vs 6 seasons of actual involvement under skip, smoke, and dan. How the frick is that comparable at all?
I'd say 6 seasons in the minor league system for Gibbs as a player is just as good as the 2 years of GA work Bianco had when Skip hired him.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 2:10 pm to lsufball19
I don't mind Blake Dean and Ibarra coaching 3B while Javi and Canni do the coaching as they learn. That's not at all what Gibbs was. He was a glorified data collector for PM who didn't trust the tech to begin with and he wasn't doing any one-on-one coaching with hitters. That was Andy.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 2:11 pm to ell_13
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It's one season doing video analysis vs 6 seasons of actual involvement under skip, smoke, and dan. How the frick is that comparable at all?
Former Mainieri player Javier Sanchez (I know I'm going back in the memory vault here but try to keep up) was a former Mainieri player and was hired fresh then promoted to hitting coach after one season. That season was 2009. This season Gibbs becomes hitting coach after one season in the program and LSU is hot and gunning for Omaha and a national championship. Interesting parallels How about you sit back and realize Mainieri is always going to be right.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 2:12 pm to lsufball19
6 seasons in the minors doesn't mean anything without context. It can mean different things to different players depending on their position, focus, and goals.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 2:13 pm to The Boat
What does that post have ANYTHING to do with Bianco and how he got here? If you wanted to make that comparison, put it in the OP. It would be much closer to what Gibbs went through.
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