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#77
#77
TheDirector said:
1) Create a Public Desire - Who will be the next coach?
2) Create a Desired Output - Elander
3) Perform a PR Stunt - Coaching Search Committee with Vol Legend to delay hire and create intrigue. Float other names.
4) Give the people what they wanted all along - Elander
5) Hope this whole charade lessens the heat from you running off the most liked coach on campus - CTV
6) Double the talent acquisition fee and add fee for talent retention to the ticket prices
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Need to somehow move the students right behind visitor's dugout.

Move the no-show blue hairs to right field bleachers.
 
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#81
#81
NO SIR EEE said:
The hot board as of this morning:

Tennessee Associate Head Coach: Josh Elander

Oregon Head Coach: Mark Wasikowski

East Carolina Head Coach: Cliff Godwin

Coastal Carolina Head Coach: Kevin Schnall

Kansas Head Coach: Dan Fitzgerald

Alabama Head Coach: Rob Vaughn

Murray State Head Coach: Dan Skirka

Miss. State Associate Head Coach: Kevin McMullan
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I feel nauseous.
 
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#82
#82
Rocky Top T said:
Amen!!!! Thanks to DW, the students are not much of a factor anymore
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Every student section at baseball stadiums in the SEC are in the outfield. Another thing, I go to a lot of Tennessee baseball takes. About half the fans anrrnt even paying attention to the game. It’s just a social event for people. The stadium is half empty for the first 6 weeks of the season.
 
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#83
#83
Pawleysvol said:
Every student section at baseball stadiums in the SEC are in the outfield. Another thing, I go to a lot of Tennessee baseball takes. About half the fans anrrnt even paying attention to the game. It’s just a social event for people. The stadium is half empty for the first 6 weeks of the season.
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Make it General Admission after 3 innings.

Snooze you lose
 
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#85
#85
Keeping staff may not be the answer long term. Of course the players want to keep him, but they leave and then what? Go get the best candidate.
 
#86
#86
Pawleysvol said:
Every student section at baseball stadiums in the SEC are in the outfield. Another thing, I go to a lot of Tennessee baseball takes. About half the fans anrrnt even paying attention to the game. It’s just a social event for people. The stadium is half empty for the first 6 weeks of the season.
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You are correct about the social event. Heard the same thing about basketball arena. I go to the football games, about half the crowd doesn't yell either.
 
#90
#90
EezyE said:
Todd Helton I can see, but deputy athletics director and chief marketing officer Alicia Longworth, associate athletics director of administration Tyler Johnson and deputy athletics director and chief competitive officer Marshall Steward being on the committee?
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Check out their bios and look at their areas of expertise and they all make perfect sense to me. Marketing - you better get the PR piece of this right, Contracting better get the finances right and the previous sport administrator for baseball.
 
#94
#94
We just need to keep the familiarity at this point. If Elander fails (which I dont think he will) then go another route after that. It will not be the same vibe by completely going away from the most previous coaching staff and we will sink quickly imo.
 
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#97
#97
What is done is well and truly done.

In this situation, I think our best choice from the assistant ranks is the one who is already on campus. Elander is best-placed to build on the elite-level foundation Tony Vitello leaves behind. He knows the formula. He understands the approach. He is the choice of our players and at least the plurality of our baseball alumni. That selection validates what has been done in the Vitello era, getting us past what was at best a mediocre effort at retention from the athletic director.

Hiring an assistant from outside the family is a crapshoot. Those with Vitello-level ability are hard to find while those at Todd Raleigh's capabilities are much more common.

If not Elander, then get the real deal from outside the SEC/ACC elite who has built his own program and kept it going. That will be the type of outsider well-placed to take the Rolls Royce he's being handed and move forward.
 
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#100
#100
As someone who visits this forum more casually than others I have a question. As a fanbase I understand the thought that Elendar makes a natural fit to step into the lead role. He's an elite recruiter and has excelled in all roles to date with a track record to back it up. Seems like a similar trajectory as TV or other younger head coaches like Vaughn at Bama, etc.

My question however is, while I've seen his name mentioned as an up and coming candidate for openings the last several cycles, I can't actually remember him interviewing anywhere. I think South Carolina listed him as a candidate, but didn't actually interview him because they wanted someone with HC experience.

Has Josh actually interviewed anywhere that we're aware of? If not, is it because he was seen as TV successor all along?

Appreciate any insight the regulars might have to offer.
 
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