Didn't have the resume to begin with, only got the job because of the situation.

He failed the two year interview, time to move on,

We don't have money. Can't even remodel the stadium and we want to pay for a new coach.

Aggie Baseball is gonna be stuck for a while until we can free up some funds.

TexasAGGIEinAR said:

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We've only hosted 14 times in our history, and he achieved one of the 14.

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We've hosted 14 times out of 27 years. About half. We would've been at 15 but he missed last year.

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trouble said:

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So who do you suggest? Will you be contributing to the buy out fund?

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He got a job he didn't deserve. If the buyout is more than $5 then the AD should be fired.

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Why does he even have a buyout …. It should be minimal for a unproven coach that was lucky to get the opportunity. Criminal

I'm of the mindset that the past should not be our default expectations.....we should absolutely never miss a regional and still have a returning head coach

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trouble said:

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So who do you suggest? Will you be contributing to the buy out fund?

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I'd donate 4 figures asap if we pulled the trigger. I know that's not much, but it's something.

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I also wish we would make the change, but I'm not donating a dime whether we do or don't. I don't waste money on college athletics. It's a money pit with 0 tangible return on investment. How so many smart people, who have done well enough to amass a nice amount of money, choose to waste it on college athletics is beyond me. Just a **** measuring contest I guess (for most, not all I'm sure).

Angry Beaver said:

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I don't know, but at that rate, the argument is made that it's EXPECTED we make a regional.

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Not MAKE, HOST. And yes, that should be the expectation. It won't happen every year but I see no reason that shouldn't be the expectation. It essentially means that you're in roughly the top half of the conference.

Tell that to LSU, knucklehead

edit: Also, ANY AD that fires a coach that went 41-16 (.719 winning percentage) in his second year WILL NOT get any coach worth his salt to sign on.

Some of yall need to learn how to deal with your emotions better.

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We lost 2 games to a USC team that did not win a series this year against a good team, other than Poly. That was in February. Neither Iowa nor Purdue, 2 teams they swept at home, made the tournament even though they both had >.500 records. Everyone else had a .500 or (mostly) sub .500. SC was also below water on the road. Although the regional itself was neutral, the games against us should be viewed as road ones.

The mid-week California games that are played by teams like SC and UCLA against previous baseball powers like Fullerton, LBS, Irvine, etc. are no more -- at least in terms of competitiveness. ALL of those teams ended up with losing records this year. Only Poly San Diego St. and UCSB had winning records. So did Oregon St, but USC got trashed by them.

Hosting a regional and winning 2 games against teams that will only win 1 game, at most, at any given regional is NOT something to hang a season on. Plus, you can't have it both ways: IF we truly were the 2nd or 3rd SEC team, a SR is a necessity. Otherwise, that was an illusion and not indicative of true team strength. We had a very winnable regional this year and blew it off. Losing next week at UNC would have been one thing, but no excuses for this one.

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Top 3 of our order was amongst the best in the country and they are all going to get drafted. Can anyone really see us being better next year after a lackluster postseason this season?

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I expect Partida and Wilson to keep growing, just like Gavin and Caden did.

91AggieLawyer said:

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We lost 2 games to a USC team that did not win a series this year against a good team, other than Poly. That was in February. Neither Iowa nor Purdue, 2 teams they swept at home, made the tournament even though they both had >.500 records. Everyone else had a .500 or (mostly) sub .500. SC was also below water on the road. Although the regional itself was neutral, the games against us should be viewed as road ones.

The mid-week California games that are played by teams like SC and UCLA against previous baseball powers like Fullerton, LBS, Irvine, etc. are no more -- at least in terms of competitiveness. ALL of those teams ended up with losing records this year. Only Poly San Diego St. and UCSB had winning records. So did Oregon St, but USC got trashed by them.

Hosting a regional and winning 2 games against teams that will only win 1 game, at most, at any given regional is NOT something to hang a season on. Plus, you can't have it both ways: IF we truly were the 2nd or 3rd SEC team, a SR is a necessity. Otherwise, that was an illusion and not indicative of true team strength. We had a very winnable regional this year and blew it off. Losing next week at UNC would have been one thing, but no excuses for this one.

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Tell that to UCLA and GT who won their conferences

It is baseball

It happens and while we had holes to fix some does everyone. Barely half of the number one seeds advanced and some had to battle hard to get out

Wicked Good Ag said:

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91AggieLawyer said:

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We lost 2 games to a USC team that did not win a series this year against a good team, other than Poly. That was in February. Neither Iowa nor Purdue, 2 teams they swept at home, made the tournament even though they both had >.500 records. Everyone else had a .500 or (mostly) sub .500. SC was also below water on the road. Although the regional itself was neutral, the games against us should be viewed as road ones.

The mid-week California games that are played by teams like SC and UCLA against previous baseball powers like Fullerton, LBS, Irvine, etc. are no more -- at least in terms of competitiveness. ALL of those teams ended up with losing records this year. Only Poly San Diego St. and UCSB had winning records. So did Oregon St, but USC got trashed by them.

Hosting a regional and winning 2 games against teams that will only win 1 game, at most, at any given regional is NOT something to hang a season on. Plus, you can't have it both ways: IF we truly were the 2nd or 3rd SEC team, a SR is a necessity. Otherwise, that was an illusion and not indicative of true team strength. We had a very winnable regional this year and blew it off. Losing next week at UNC would have been one thing, but no excuses for this one.

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Tell that to UCLA and GT who won their conferences

It is baseball

It happens and while we had holes to fix some does everyone. Barely half of the number one seeds advanced and some had to battle hard to get out

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A little different though. In hindsight, USC was better than A&M, at least as of now. That was no fluke.

RogerTheShrubber said:

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Tell that to LSU, knucklehead

edit: Also, ANY AD that fires a coach that went 41-16 (.719 winning percentage) in his second year WILL NOT get any coach worth his salt to sign on.

Some of yall need to learn how to deal with your emotions better.

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Ahh, the old "emotional" jab....

Wicked Good Ag said:

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91AggieLawyer said:

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We lost 2 games to a USC team that did not win a series this year against a good team, other than Poly. That was in February. Neither Iowa nor Purdue, 2 teams they swept at home, made the tournament even though they both had >.500 records. Everyone else had a .500 or (mostly) sub .500. SC was also below water on the road. Although the regional itself was neutral, the games against us should be viewed as road ones.

The mid-week California games that are played by teams like SC and UCLA against previous baseball powers like Fullerton, LBS, Irvine, etc. are no more -- at least in terms of competitiveness. ALL of those teams ended up with losing records this year. Only Poly San Diego St. and UCSB had winning records. So did Oregon St, but USC got trashed by them.

Hosting a regional and winning 2 games against teams that will only win 1 game, at most, at any given regional is NOT something to hang a season on. Plus, you can't have it both ways: IF we truly were the 2nd or 3rd SEC team, a SR is a necessity. Otherwise, that was an illusion and not indicative of true team strength. We had a very winnable regional this year and blew it off. Losing next week at UNC would have been one thing, but no excuses for this one.

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Tell that to UCLA and GT who won their conferences

It is baseball

It happens and while we had holes to fix some does everyone. Barely half of the number one seeds advanced and some had to battle hard to get out

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I didn't watch all the games, but I must've missed where both those teams were blown out and embarrassed during their losses, and completely uncompetitive pretty much the entire 18 innings of those games. But yes, since they clearly were, it's literally the same scenario.

We are poor.

Complete coaching staff turn over in under two years on the job. Never a good sign.

Two seasons in a rows where the final month went south. Could not finish. Bad trend.

We can give Earley Year 3, or Year 4 or Year 5, but, IMO, we got ourselves a dead man walking no matter when the loyalists wake up to that fact. I agree he is not getting fired this year. And in isolation, this year was fairly successful (regional host, top 15 team most of the year, beat your rival). But you can't view it in isolation. In the two years since we had a team playing in the championship final, we have exactly two postseason wins - against Lamar and Texas State. It's fairly obvious Earley is being given a 3rd year. Alberts probably promised him three years when he hired him. It was too risky of a hire for Earley if we didn't. So Mike has a stay of execution of 12 months. He can go out and shock the world in recruiting, coaching hires and performance on the field (regular and post season) or he should be (and I think will be) gone this time next year.

I was not a fan of the hire to begin with, certainly wanted him fired last year, and was begging for him to be fired early season this year for this very reason. That we would be just good enough to placate the loyalists and get another year with a greatly depleted squad and when the book is out on Mike in the market. Good news is, we will see how much Mike is able to grow and grab success (if he can) with a few big hires and what he is able to pull together in the portal. I'm also interested to see how much the big cigars are willing to invest in portal players for Mike. As of right now, Mike is a noticably less successful version of Larry Coker. We all know how that turned out.

Texas_Ag11

TexasAGGIEinAR said:

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We were picked damn near last in the SEC and finished 3rd, which is one of our higher finishes since joining the conference. We've only hosted 14 times in our history, and he achieved one of the 14. We were preseason 25 in D1Baseball and finished top 10 before postseason began. And with all the tu obsession on this board (unprovoked or otherwise), he swept those idiots. I hate the way the season ended but to pretend this season was a disaster is comical. We had a bunch of unfortunate things happen to our pitching staff that led to a tough year on the mound. Not Earley's fault that one transfer backed out, the Baylor fella getting hurt, Stewart getting hurt, Sdao not recovering how everyone thought, Sims getting hurt. Let's see how the offseason pans out, with portal additions and possible coaching carousel, before everyone flies off the handle. Jesus.

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11 of those times have occurred since 1999 when the NCAA expanded the number of hosts from 8 to 16. It happens just over 42% of the time for A&M coaches of this era, and for just under half of the SEC teams this year.

It's a good result, but not as rarified as implied these days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_A%26M_Aggies_baseball

Earley got a dream job in an improbable scenario and has shown he wasn't ready then and still isn't. Whether or not the AD cares is the bigger question. Earley will not win big at A&M this evolution. Maybe if he comes back way down the road it will be different. But the fact is clear that he's not up to this level as a HC. You same old sad group of sunshine pumpers can keep your head in the sand probably where it belongs. But cheerleading won't fix this.

Early's penalty for not getting out of a regional he hosted will be no contract extension. Had we won our regional, I think he would have got a couple of years tacked on. As it is now, he has only two years left.

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RogerTheShrubber said:

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Tell that to LSU, knucklehead

edit: Also, ANY AD that fires a coach that went 41-16 (.719 winning percentage) in his second year WILL NOT get any coach worth his salt to sign on.

Some of yall need to learn how to deal with your emotions better.

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Ahh, the old "emotional" jab....

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He ain't wrong.

Coryhub said:

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We were #1 preseason team and didn't make the tourney. We were hosting regional and couldn't make it to supers.
2 years in a row we haven't made a super regional and this was not supposed to be a rebuild after Schloss left. We did this to try and win quickly and we didn't.
Experiment failed why would we expect next year to be any different ? What did Earley do to prove he deserves to be a big time P4 coach at a school that was in CWS 2 yrs ago..
Admit it was a gamble to hire HC with no HC experience to keep the roster in order and not be decimated. Now we didn't produce in 2 yrs so let's get a real HC that has resume that deserves to be hired.

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So you want to fire Earley right now?