re: What does Jay Johnson bring to the table?

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Johnson's path is presently tracking the same as Orgeron's at LSU.

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that’s dumb.

1. Ed Orgeron whole
pitch was “hire me, I will keep all the good things going and fix the offense” he was RC a couple of years and then Interim in 2017. So he had a running start.

2. The wheels were
coming off in year 4 and 5 if you DONT include the interim year. at that point he had made like 4 bad OC hires.

3. Orgeron had NO prior success and had actually been a monster failure at his prior job.

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could have taken last years roster and won a championship

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Where are these coaches that win national titles without elite talent?
I see lsu posters always using this narrative to shite on a coaches' accomplishments.

Please show me these coaches winning national titles without talent.

Thatcher Hurd

Ah, perhaps some of my law school professors may have thought I was a bit simple-minded, and maybe my ex-wife, but that's their cross to shoulder.

I compared his record/track at LSU to that of Orgeron as a head coach here, and they are very similar in terms of championships followed by dramatic downturns. There is no disputing that

I said it was up to him to change that trend. I didn't compare him to Cousin Eddie, but I did compare the present path of his tenure to that of Orgeron's. They're very much alike, though neither of us (nor anyone else) know what lies ahead.

Any attempt at forecasting his future success is just as futile as forecasting his future failure. Even a simpleton can comprehend that.

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I am so sick of this Jay Johnson hate. Bring that shite next season if it happens again. I doubt it does.

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Man I truly don’t understand the Jay Johnson sucks crowd as much as anyone.. but what exactly makes you optimistic about next season?

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though neither of us (nor anyone else) know what lies ahead

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Bill this is why some of us do know

Elite recruiter
Elite in portal
Hires elite coaches
Is very clearly not complacent like coach O

As bad as they have been this year they are still very close

We’ve lost 9 SEC games by 1 or 2 runs. Flip less than half of those (4) and we’re going into the final weekend talking about possibly hosting a regional. Now good teams are able to win close games more often than not and we need to examine why we have haven’t been able to close them out and what we can do better or differently.

Heck it’s going to take a miracle for Florida to make a regional too.

Why is he top tier? Because he won a CWS? Does that make Mike Bianco a top tier coach? How about Chris Lemonis?

Excellent post, tiger cub

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We gonna ignore the studs he brought in that carried us in Omaha?

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Yes like Skenes, Cooper, Ack, White (who led the country in RBIs), I can keep going.

These are nothing but CPM dick riders or trolls that come up with these threads.

Look, do I think Johnson had coaching mistakes this year especially around pitching and fundamental hitting? Yep.
He stated before the season that we would see a different type of hitting club and that never happened. His team couldn’t bunt to save their collective lives. I believe that is directly on his lack of giving a shite about some of the fundamentals of baseball for his OPS analytics driven world. The issue is like MLB is learning, when you don’t have those contact hitters or guys that walk a lot or when you face good to great pitching, all your analytics fly out the window.
The golf quote fits “You drive for the show. You putt for the dough.”
I hate how fundamentally poor teams are these days.