Chop, I'm a little confused and having a hard time figuring it out. Are you or are you not a fan of Pierce?
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It might be a reach but the announcers were talking up the A&M assistant Max Weiner yesterday saying he should be a head coach soon. He’s also got MLB experience on his resume as a pitching coordinator (not sure how that differs from a pitching coach). If he’s a real up and comer I would make a run at him or at least give him an interview. I would think the chance to take over a blue blood program would be very appealing.I don't know what coaches would be available, but this was a bad end to an often-painful season. 3 CWS appearances in Pierce's tenure of 8 years, but two of those appearances were as brief as you can get. Two years in a row with no home regional, and getting a home regional isn't really that high a bar--16 other teams managed it. Please, please at the very least get a good pitching coach.
I guess I missed all the "great development" that you profess. This has been an abysmal season. We should be loaded with talent that doesnt have to be motivated to perform. I have never been a Pierce fan but surely this season will dampen some of the orange colored glass views?? My hope is CDC makes the change but thats why he gets the big bucks.And great job by Coach Pierce in developing LBJ.
And in developing Boehm.
Boehm was a Junior College journeyman with mediocre stats before this year.
Coach Pierce has developed Boehm into a stud on the mound.
Now that's some great player development by Coach Pierce!!!
(there's 1 in every crowd...)
Sabre,das,
Pierce has NOT had wealthy alums calling recruits and their families advising them NOT to come to Texas. Neither has Pierce had to put up with NO personal computers for his players to use for their school work, nor has he had only ONE tutor available only from 930-1030 AM for nearly 30 kids trying to stay eligible during the summer.
If you missed the great development of Gage Boehm into one of the best pitchers in the conference then you haven’t been watching. He showed up here this year as a journeyman junior college player with mediocre stats.I guess I missed all the "great development" that you profess. This has been an abysmal season. We should be loaded with talent that doesnt have to be motivated to perform. I have never been a Pierce fan but surely this season will dampen some of the orange colored glass views?? My hope is CDC makes the change but thats why he gets the big bucks.
If you’re going to give him credit for the development of Bohem, the you’re also going to have to blame him for the regression of many of the other members of the pitching staff.If you missed the great development of Gage Boehm into one of the best pitchers in the conference then you haven’t been watching. He showed up here this year as a journeyman junior college player with mediocre stats.
That's right. Anyone questioning the skills or the performance of Boehm on the mound hasn't been watching.Website says ERA 2.53, 8 saves, 5-3 record in 53 innings pitched. Gage did become a dependable closer the last half of the season. I hope he doesn't transfer out.
If you missed the great development of Gage Boehm into one of the best pitchers in the conference then you haven’t been watching. He showed up here this year as a journeyman junior college player with mediocre stats.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves, White still doesn't have a clue how to coach 3rd base.Someone buy Coach Pierce a plane ticket to OKC, so he can see how coaching on the diamond is done right.
The issue, as always, is never to be running away from someone but to be running to someone. If there is a high-quality Coach out there and that person has expressed interest and will actually move and not just use Texas for a bigger contract then I understand a move now, particularly based on the last two seasons and looking at a move to the SEC where at present Texas will come in as maybe the ninth or 10th best program in that league
There's not a single poster on here that wouldn't love for their biggest gripe to be Pierce's coaching of 3rd base. Sadly, he had to fire himself from doing that, too, he was do bad.Let's not get ahead of ourselves, White still doesn't have a clue how to coach 3rd base.
The issue, as always, is never to be running away from someone but to be running to someone. If there is a high-quality Coach out there and that person has expressed interest and will actually move and not just use Texas for a bigger contract then I understand a move now, particularly based on the last two seasons and looking at a move to the SEC where at present Texas will come in as maybe the ninth or 10th best program in that league. The fact that Texas would come in so low into the new league is entirely on Pierce and what he has done over the last couple of years.
However, we don’t just get rid of Pierce for the sake of getting rid of Pierce. There has to be a good quality hire already on the hook otherwise the real threat is making things even worse. Texas ended up with Pierce the last time because there was no set replacement already lined up for Augie and Pierce ultimately was the best person who was willing to take the job not the best person that might have been available. This time if a move is going to be made then Texas has to get the best person who may be available and not the best of a limited pool of options who may be no better than Pierce and possibly even worse given the learning curve of running a big time program.
If only CDC had been hired a year earlier, then he would have been in charge of replacing Augie. There's an excellent chance he would have hired Schlossnaggy because of their history together at TCU, or at least someone comparable.When Pierce was hired, there was an interim AD who replaced a disaster of an AD. I have much more confidence that CDC would make the right hire at the right time.
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