re: Did Woodward look into Schloss after Mainieri left?

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Why is that dumb?

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Why is it dumb to say Schloss isn’t as good as Augie?

Are you serious right now?

I did not. You can go through my entire post history and will never see me pushing for Bianco.

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Conference records from 2012-2016:

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I’m not debating with someone who’s going to cherry pick 5 years out of a possible 16 to make their point.

Especially when that 5 years resulted in zero fricking titles.

Go to bed dude. You’ve lost the plot.

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That’s the whole fricking point. I think if he was at Texas the whole time, he’d have titles. You don’t think coaching at Texas was a better situation than coaching at TCU?

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Nothing supports this. Schloss has been good, not great. Augie was great. Skip Bertman level great.

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You are the only that said it’s dumb to think Schloss could have been better than Augie in those years. You fricking said that.

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Yes, because there’s nothing to support it other than your hopes and dreams.

Get the frick out of here unless you can bring something tangible.

This is not the argument you made, but it’s fine. I see you really think we should have hired Schloss all those years ago.

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Just like a couple of weeks ago when you had the opinion that there wouldn’t be a drop off in the outfield if Curiel moved to centerfield, then we proceeded to watch Curiel spend an entire weekend looking like a baby deer in the outfield. That was a dumb fricking opinion supported by zero facts.

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You just gonna gloss over Stanfield misplaying a couple balls the last couple weeks?

Interesting.

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Maybe, maybe not. You have no facts to back that up.

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No. I have common sense though.

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Man some of y’all are insufferable

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You're severely slacking there Pump Boy, it's M I S E R A B L E.

Hook too shiny.

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To answer the original question, no, Woodward did not interview or even call Schlossnagle after Mainieri left. Schloss' only contact with LSU was through Skip, whose input into the coaching search was only given cursory consideration.

Woodward was fixated elsewhere. He and his Catholic High buddies were hot on Corbin and then O'Sullivan. But A&M really wanted Schlossnagle. They gave him a midnight deadline on a Wednesday. Schloss was still calling people that evening. Having been at Tulane, he knew what LSU was and considered it his dream job. He told this to multiple people.
But Woodward never called. At precisely a couple of minutes past midnight that Wednesday night, Kendall Rogers made the announcement that Schlossnagle had accepted the Texas A&M job.

A&M was never on Schloss' dream list. But he felt it was time to leave TCU and Fort Worth. He was going through an uncomfortable divorce. His former boss at TCU (Del Conte) had left for Texas.

I'm not going to argue Schlossnagle's record at TCU. Understand, though, that TCU has never had a Vandy-type private school situation. He didn't have any more advantages at TCU than LSU had with TOPS.
TCU fancies itself as a football school, and all the money goes there.
TCU likes to think its baseball stadium is great but it would be in the bottom quarter of SEC schools. Schloss had also been told there were no major improvements planned for the ballpark unless he first raised the money himself.

So he left. And he built A&M into a damn good team. But he realized it was Aggieland and Big Brother would always be in Austin. Del Conte pushed hard for him to leave A&M, and so he did. A career and lifestyle move -- only an idiot would argue that.

Was it a dick move to leave A&M the way he did? Coaches leave all the time. He felt he was leaving behind a good program at A&M and they would be fine.

You people that say he's a bad guy don't have a clue. His players in pro ball regularly go back and visit him and work out there in the off-season. He has coached the USA Collegiate team and those guys always talk glowingly of him.

Maybe he didn't win the College World Series when he was at TCU, but he got the Frogs there five times.

Texas made a great hire. So did LSU.