Who will be the next coach?

We tend to criticize the behavior we saw last week by Shloss when it’s another school. And we should. For example, what Lincoln Riley did to OU was bush league. If we’re going to judge others — and we should, our school should be held to the same standard.

I have no problem with Shloss leaving the Cult for Texas. However, I continue to be disgusted every time I see his answer to that question in his post game presser.

To his credit, he did apologize in the intro presser at Texas, but the damage had already been done. I also don’t like the idea of having all of these Aggie players transfer to Texas. Sure, it will be fantastic for us, but I just don’t like the optics. If we win a Natty in 2025 with former Aggie players, it will feel tainted to me.

But that’s just me…
 
dukesteer said:
We tend to criticize the behavior we saw last week by Shloss when it’s another school. And we should. For example, what Lincoln Riley did to OU was bush league. If we’re going to judge others — and we should, our school should be held to the same standard.

I have no problem with Shloss leaving the Cult for Texas. However, I continue to be disgusted every time I see his answer to that question in his post game presser.

To his credit, he did apologize in the intro presser at Texas, but the damage had already been done. I also don’t like the idea of having all of these Aggie players transfer to Texas. Sure, it will be fantastic for us, but I just don’t like the optics. If we win a Natty in 2025 with former Aggie players, it will feel tainted to me.

But that’s just me…
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Aggy transferring to Texas is only speculation at this point. I doubt many will come over, but I could be wrong.
 
dukesteer said:
We tend to criticize the behavior we saw last week by Shloss when it’s another school. And we should. For example, what Lincoln Riley did to OU was bush league. If we’re going to judge others — and we should, our school should be held to the same standard.

I have no problem with Shloss leaving the Cult for Texas. However, I continue to be disgusted every time I see his answer to that question in his post game presser.

To his credit, he did apologize in the intro presser at Texas, but the damage had already been done. I also don’t like the idea of having all of these Aggie players transfer to Texas. Sure, it will be fantastic for us, but I just don’t like the optics. If we win a Natty in 2025 with former Aggie players, it will feel tainted to me.

But that’s just me…
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Also it didn’t appear aggy AD did anything proactive to keep him or justify Schloss to stay there. Big difference vs Riley. Don’t buy the aggy tears and butthurt as evidence of wrongdoing. Some folks actually deserve their misery!
 
I know there are aggies in the portal, but have any committed to Texas yet? I’ve only heard of the recruit who flipped. Regarding Schloss’s response to the question, he should have been ready for it and just said “no comment” but that’s water under the bridge. I don’t think it necessarily means he has no character. Regarding any aggies transferring to Texas, that’s a decision they make for themselves. It would stink for them to lose players but they might gain some too. The age of the transfer portal
 
I am wondering what was the reason to announce DP firing on Monday instead of Tuesday? If they had waited till Tuesday, the question that Schloss fumbled would not have been asked.
 
Phil Elliott said:
I am wondering what was the reason to announce DP firing on Monday instead of Tuesday? If they had waited till Tuesday, the question that Schloss fumbled would not have been asked.
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He was fired one week earlier. News came out from the NIL folks who couldn’t contain themselves.
 
giveemhell said:
Do we know that for sure? I’ve also heard the theory that Pierce himself leaked it to the Houston Chronicle out of spite, knowing it would cause chaos.
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Good point(s). Whatever it is, it’s not what the delusional aggy fans think it is.
 
giveemhell said:
Do we know that for sure? I’ve also heard the theory that Pierce himself leaked it to the Houston Chronicle out of spite, knowing it would cause chaos.
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I questioned the hiring of Pierce when it was done. I've posted before that I was told he was the genius behind Rice's good teams because of his ability to recognize talent and coach them up. In spite of my personal dislike of the choice, I cannot and will NOT believe that Pierce could or would do that. The Chronicle isn't even good fish wrap, and they don't have a sports reporter that can find his butt in the dark with both hands if you give him a flashlight, tour guide, and map of how to get there. The Chronicle, however, is not above running with something like that to try to establish some sort of relevance, which they haven't had since the federal government made Houston Endowment divest itself of the paper.
 
Do we know that for sure? I’ve also heard the theory that Pierce himself leaked it to the Houston Chronicle out of spite, knowing it would cause chaos.
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I'm not buying that. That is not who David Pierce is at all.
 
I don't believe that Pierce would deliberately leak the information out of spite. I did hear on sports talk that Pierce shared the information with Kirk Bohls, which does seem possible. That doesn't mean that Pierce intended for it to be published or to cause such a firestorm.
 
Sabre
Thank you for honest insightful post. I think you would know
And I like knowing Pierce wouldn't do that.
 
aUTfan said:
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So much for making a big splash hire and getting whoever they want for “the best job in college baseball”. This is a budget driven hire thanks to the continued effects of the Jumbo debacle.

this may turn out to be a great hire in the end. Who knows. But certainly not the “big name” dumb *** aggy assumed they would get.

still, be prepared for the aggy response thumping their chest how they stole back the real brains behind their teams success this year.
 
We hear a lot about so and is the real brains behind success. Most of the time it has some truth but not much, about the only time I have seen a school retain as its head coach an assistant and have kept the brains behind the success was when TCU promoted Patterson after Fran left but usually it's a pale imitation of what was just lost. Aggy is desperately trying to keep players from jumping ship and this was the best option while continuing the cost-cutting to pay off Jimbo.
 
:point-up:This.

Aggie players have voiced significant support for hiring Earley. It's extremely short sighted. Aggies are just trying to keep their players from leaving, mostly to prevent them from coming here, that pisses them off so bad, they will do anything to prevent it, even if it's a poor long term hire.

I don't care if it works out for them or not, time will tell. He will need to hire a great pitching and defensive coach.

Lastly, good for the kid, he just parlayed a 6 figure job, into a 7 figure job, I don't blame the kid one bit. :bow::clap:
 
FWHORN said:
We hear a lot about so and is the real brains behind success. Most of the time it has some truth but not much, about the only time I have seen a school retain as its head coach an assistant and have kept the brains behind the success was when TCU promoted Patterson after Fran left but usually it's a pale imitation of what was just lost. Aggy is desperately trying to keep players from jumping ship and this was the best option while continuing the cost-cutting to pay off Jimbo.
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For a coach that all the players hate and none of the assistants want to be around, Schloss sure does win a lot regardless of who is on his staff. Supposedly none of his staff followed him from TCU to aggy but Schloss got them turned around in a hurry. He also recruited the high schools and portal exceptionally well in spite of being a lying POS that aggy keeps spewing. I’m pretty sure we will be just fine going forward and I am really excited to see where the program is in 2-3 years.
 
STHAustin said:
I did hear on sports talk that Pierce shared the information with Kirk Bohls, which does seem possible. That doesn't mean that Pierce intended for it to be published or to cause such a firestorm.
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Please, no one in this business is that dumb. If Pierce shared the information with Bohls, he had to know Bohls would end up getting the story published. A leopard doesn't change its spots.
 
giveemhell said:
Please, no one in this business is that dumb. If Pierce shared the information with Bohls, he had to know Bohls would end up getting the story published. A leopard doesn't change its spots.
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Every rose has its thorn.... or whatever Brett Michael's said.
 
horninchicago said:
So, he made mention of leaving his family to be the coach at A&M, and he got a divorce at that time. Um, okay...

Good baseball coach or not, sounds like his judgement is in question.

Whatever, I don't care about baseball. Just sounds like a weird dude to me. Funny, if he wasn't now the Texas coach, y'all would think the same thing if he went to, say, OU.

I'm with @dukesteer here.
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maybe he meant his kids, or his elderly parents. people can get divorced and love "their family" because he's thinking about those he isn't getting divorced from. We all know life is complicated.
 
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