Mainieri out of USC jr

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Has any school ever fired 3 major sport coaches in a year? This is the first one and SCAR should have canned Lamont Paris after his second horrible season but gave him the "vote of confidence/kiss of death " going into 2026-27. And some are tiring of Beamer Ball so if he flames out in 2026, he might be gone.

Good days in Columbia
 
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YankeeVol said:
That's an extremely short leash for a HOF coach.

Granted, he was retired, but damn.
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That was a really strange hire to begin with, hence probably the short leash. He didn't get a buyout when he left LSU, so I guess it was voluntary (there was lots of speculation he was actually forced out). But LSU had really slipped his last few years there, he'd been out of the game for 3 years, and he was/is in his late 60s.
 
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That run they went on in the early 2010s seems like it was 40 years ago. They went CWS Champ, CWS Champ, CWS Runner-up from 2010-12 and have only been to 4 Supers in the 12 seasons since. Have missed the postseason altogether 5 times.
 
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05_never_again said:
That run they went on in the early 2010s seems like it was 40 years ago. They went CWS Champ, CWS Champ, CWS Runner-up from 2010-12 and have only been to 4 Supers in the 12 seasons since. Have missed the postseason altogether 5 times.
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Truly an epic disappearance from the scene. But, the preceding years to that run weren't a whole lot better than since?? Apparently just got lucky with a couple recruiting classes. Even MsState is a shell of it's former self, but were never truly dominate as far as racking up natty's.

The big surprise to me is the emergence of GA in the power team scene. Historically, UGA baseball has never been too far above just showing up. Which was always just as surprising.
 
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GVF said:
Truly an epic disappearance from the scene. But, the preceding years to that run weren't a whole lot better than since?? Apparently just got lucky with a couple recruiting classes. Even MsState is a shell of it's former self, but were never truly dominate as far as racking up natty's.

The big surprise to me is the emergence of GA in the power team scene. Historically, UGA baseball has never been too far above just showing up. Which was always just as surprising.
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At USCjr it was more than luck with just a few recruiting classes; Ray Tanner was a great coach who also had a nice run from 2000 to 2004. Went to 3 CWSs in a row from 2002-04, with a runner-up in 2002.

I 100% agree with you that the real head-scratcher in college baseball is UGA. They really should be one of the more accomplished programs in the SEC (up there with LSU/Arky/Miss St), if not the entire country. Hell, they should be pretty good historically at basketball too. I think they have a little bit of a Penn St/Ohio St phenomenon going on where the entire apparatus (admin, fans, boosters, etc.) care about nothing other than football.
 
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05_never_again said:
At USCjr it was more than luck with just a few recruiting classes; Ray Tanner was a great coach who also had a nice run from 2000 to 2004. Went to 3 CWSs in a row from 2002-04, with a runner-up in 2002.

I 100% agree with you that the real head-scratcher in college baseball is UGA. They really should be one of the more accomplished programs in the SEC (up there with LSU/Arky/Miss St), if not the entire country. Hell, they should be pretty good historically at basketball too. I think they have a little bit of a Penn St/Ohio St phenomenon going on where the entire apparatus (admin, fans, boosters, etc.) care about nothing other than football.
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UGA's arena is absurdly outdated so it does seem they don't care about basketball.
 
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