re: Paul Mainieri potential replacement thread

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Majority of the people in this board can’t name more than 5 head baseball coaches in college and those 5 are not coming to LSU. LSU isn’t getting an established head coach from a top program. They all make great money now and are basically on lifetime contracts at the current school. LSU is probably the only place in the country that will think about replacing you after year 4 or 5 if you aren’t winning enough in Omaha. Not games or sec championships but Omaha specifically. Why would you leave a long term contract for relatively equal money for that?

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I agree, for the most part, with all of that. You have to make every single one of them say no though.

For some, you have coaching in the SEC to offer.

For some, you can bump the money up some.

For some, you can provide better facilities (although that gap has closed for some).

For some, you can offer better overall support for baseball.

For almost all, I think the opportunity to coach at LSU would be something worth thinking about.

I don't think it happens after this year anyway. LSU's pitching is too good not to make a lot of noise this year. They will win enough games, at minimum, to not get Mainieri fired.