Exit Rich Maloney

Doubt Boss leaves MSU as he is a local and his father is a Lansing area high school baseball legend.

Good Man. Great Coach

You're saying that Jake recruited

/sunglasses

Like A Boss.

YEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

I moved down to Georgia recently and my experience is they just are more dedicated to the sport. I work at an embroidery and in january and february we were mainly doing baseball stuff. The amount of money the parents invest in their kids playing far excess anything I experienced in Michigan. We kick their asses in our investment into hockey.

The Boss story is nice, I remember him recruiting me at EMU and he did a great job helping them become a much improved program. I can't go along with losing him as the reason for Maloney's troubles. Maloney had outstanding recruiting at Ball-Freakin'-State before Boss was ever working with him. How did Maloney do all that? FWIW competing against M for the BTC in 2006 I heard a lot of gushing from players and parents about Maloney, never heard anything good or bad about Boss. In a year where I heard a lot of negativity from parents and players about their coaches across the BIG, Maloney stood out as one who was revered. Lastly, I know Putnam is homeboys with many here, but as players, we had far more respect for Brauer's abilities than Putnam. That could have been a function of age though.

I think not...

...yesterday West Virginia fired their coach.

Can Michigan afford NOT to hire Gus Van Sant?  They'd be psycho not to...

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oh wait.

Greg Van Zant.  Never mind.  At least he could play some awesome guitar solos during the stretch. 

er...

Which is not saying much nationally, but would still hate to lose them.

He could recruit with his connections, and should be fired soon. I know if I was giving the resources that he has been afforded, and failed at my job, my ass would be gone. No excuses! P.S. for those that are slow; I am joking about Leyland being a realistic option, but he should be unemployed soon.

Sort of a Michigan Man!  He'd be great!! 

Or can Hutch coach both men bball and women softball???? 

Injuries were an issue the last 2 (3?) years, but that could be a symptom of the struggles he's had developing pitching. Pitching is the key in college. ID talent and develop it. Putnam/Abrahams cannot be counted on: that talent level is too high for a B10 team to maintain.

Ive heard similar stuff about Boss, but probably from Brian. Echo chamber effect. But his performance at EMU and MSU speaks for itself. I'd love to get him back.

if there are any Caleb Porter/Rico Blasi types out there we can grab.  Guys at small schools, who consistently put out great teams, who might be enticed to leave for a school with the name/prestige and money of Michigan, even though they were the BMOC at their old school and had built a powerhouse and (in Rico's case) are alumni of where they coach.  I don't think Michigan has ever/will ever have a shot at Porter or Blasi, but I feel like baseball has a small handful of guys like those, one of which might be convinced to come. 

The other thing is, if DB is going to be looking for somebody with prior HC experience, or if he might try to poach an assistant from a Florida/South Carolina/Florida State/LSU.  I also wonder if any of those assistants would come to Michigan.  As Brian pointed out, MSU's old coach left to be pitching coach at LSU and I feel like the Big Ten might be a place where baseball coaches come to die.  They come up here, have limited success, just because of all the obstacles and all of a sudden nobody wants them as a head coach anywhere else.  Whereas if they stay a highly-though-of assistant, they could still end up HC of a powerhouse. 

It's fair to say Michigan baseball won't ever be a powerhouse and list all the reasons why, but somehow there's still this part of my head that says "This is Michigan, fergodsakes!" and wants the team to make the CWS at least every once in a while.

I went to the series vs PSU and it was not good.  One thing I've always counted on was Michigan pounding PSU regardless of the sport.  The RR years saw that come to an end in football and the halfhearted effort I saw on the field at the baseball games told me Maloney was soon to exit.

By all accounts he's a really nice guy, but nice guys (or gals) that don't win in college sports are soon replaced.  I'm just hopeful in 4 years my son will be playing on that team regardless of how good it is.  When we sat in the first row by the dugout I saw him staring into it.  He said he was about 20 feet from his sports goal in life.

The hell with the golf outing. I want this program back on top where it belongs.

If it means bringing Boss back to Michigan, so be it. He has a house in Ypsilanti so the transition would be easy. Plus I'm sure he enjoys his furniture not being lit on fire in riots, so he needs to come home.

I highly, highly doubt that Boss would leave MSU for us. Despite a much richer history in baseball, it'd be a lateral move to be honest.

Maloney was making about $333,000 per year, that is waaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy too much for someone who was not really giving 100%. Davey Money Bags won't keep you if your are making more than market and not winning the big ten. A friend of mine who is the HC of a women's sport at UM told me in Febuary Maloney was on double secret probation at before the season started.

Also, what pitch is trip throwing there? At 1st it looked like a change, but it's a stranger grip than i've seen. maybe a cut FB?

The pinky is extended,

the ring is knuckled

the thumb is 180 from the index and middle, which are aligned like a 4-seam FB WRT to the seams

Go get Strickland from Kent State!  Ohio State made the mistake of passing him over last selection.  UM is not going to get a National name and Strickland is a as close to that as they will get.  He knows the region, excellent recuiting and knows how to develop pitchers.