re: I would not trade baseball coaches with any team

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I would not trade baseball coaches with any team

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I'll sure as hell trade assistant coaches.

he deserves crap for his coaching staff and he further hamstrung himself when he promoted Cain to a paid position. Now in order to improve his hitting issue, you'd have demote or fire Cain. Does Cain necessarily deserve to be fired? Nah but he probably shouldn't have been one of your paid staffers either though.

I think he'd benefit greatly from some new blood and a pair of outside eyes that didn't graduate from Paul's school of thinking

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You think those 7 are better than Maineri?

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Yes!

Along with others.

I think if you had put those 7 at LSU they would have won more than CPM. Again, this is just my opinion which doesn't mean anything.

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to lsu2006 he deserves crap for his coaching staff and he further hamstrung himself when he promoted Cain to a paid position. Now in order to improve his hitting issue, you'd have demote or fire Cain. Does Cain necessarily deserve to be fired? Nah but he probably shouldn't have been one of your paid staffers either though. I think he'd benefit greatly from some new blood and a pair of outside eyes that didn't graduate from Paul's school of thinking

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This.

Don’t want Paul fired, but he needs to slow down on just offering jobs to former players because he likes them. He’s doing a disservice the players he has under him right now by helping non-qualified former players.

Put Cain/Gibbs/Ochinco on a shadow staff looking/reviewing talent and help them get an assistant job somewhere else or use one of your many MLB connections. Go hire a qualified hitting coach who can also recruit to a school like LSU


Again, don’t want Paul fired. He just took the team to the CWS final. I’d like to see him win another NC before he retires, but I don’t think he can do it with this current staff by developing their own players instead of inheriting guys who were coached by Canni.

Bilj, it’s time for Paul to re-evaluate his recruiting philosophy.

Sacrifice a pitcher or two and get a first baseman. Find at least 1 power bat. Stocking up on versatile athletes isn’t terrible, but he needs to tweak it.

I mean its tough to argue a guy that CPM has thoroughly dominated like DVH is better than PM. There's pretty compelling evidence to the contrary.

and if it weren't for Mike Martin, Fox would probably be next on the list of under achieving coaches.

Bianco? No thanks.

It’s hard to argue that he hasn’t been successful in keeping LSU competitive for championships with the postseason opportunities and successive national seed streak that was broken this year.

Having said that, I’m disappointed it has only amounted to one National tittle appearance since our last championship in which a lot of those players were recruited from a previous regime.

To be honest, I’m not much of a fan of his brand of baseball nor the makeup of the players he recruits for his positions. It’s nothing personal against those players that have gotten an opportunity and chosen to represent LSU. It just seems we recruit a lot of thin non-power hitting shortstops and try to use their athleticism to fill in all the other positions. It’s a small ball type lineup that tries to play something in between small ball and gorilla ball and is not really proficient at either.

Traditionally, our pitching staffs have been solid but the recent injuries are concern enough to examine our fall regimen and the workload given to freshmen for a full season.

Furthermore, I’ve never understood paul’s decision making in managing pitchers nor his choices for assistant coaches and their in-game responsibilities.

Finally, yes, I would have traded for any coach in the country last night if I knew that coach was willing to give that home plate umpire hell for squeezing our pitchers instead of sitting there thinking about whatever else was going through his mind while we were getting fleeced.

JMO.

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Now in order to improve his hitting issue, you'd have demote or fire Cain.

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Are you aware the SEC voted last week to sponsor a proposal to go to the NCAA that would increase from three to four the number of baseball and softball coaches employed by a school?

In the process, the so-called “volunteer coach” position will be eliminated.

like I said, I think he way over corrected on the bat changes. Roster chalked full of these scrappy "jack of all trades, master of none" types. Small ball type players that don't know how to play small ball for shite, its odd.

Base running this year was also anemic. So many of our steal attempts seemed to be gunned down with ease.

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Put Cain/Gibbs

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You do realize Cain's recruiting classes have been better than Andy's