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| Baseball Asst. Coaches named…finally | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Sep 8 2015, 06:24 PM (502 Views) | |
| SaintsFan1985 | Sep 8 2015, 06:24 PM Post #1 |
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Extra Extra read all about it!!!….Baseball Press release FINALLY announces UNO baseball's assistant coaches. Well I guess it only took Blake Dean 3 months (they built the levees quicker post Katrina) to name assistant coaches. Looking at their resume, I'm embarrassed for the University, my brother who is an alumnus and Coach Dean's players that he would hire such under qualified assistants. It took Coach Dean 3 months to sift through all of the candidates and this whom he chooses???? Not one of them have ever coached or played at a Division I level. Is it possible that Coach Dean doesn't want to hire anyone that is more knowledgable than him? Good luck finding fans and players to buy into the program. Either way, this coaching staff and baseball program is turning into an absolute CIRCUS, all they need now is a tent to put over it. |
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| Unofan | Sep 8 2015, 07:40 PM Post #2 |
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Pretty quick to judge coaches who haven't even suited up yet. I choose to see how they actually do before I condemn the coach, the university, the program, etc. What axe do you have to grind? |
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| Seahawksman | Sep 8 2015, 11:21 PM Post #3 |
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I'm extremely unimpressed with the hire of Dean and now this inexperienced lousy staff. How about hiring one UNO guy? There are tons of them out there coaching at various levels. It may not be worth getting worked up over, rumors are once again swirling that athletics is in big trouble at UNO. Dr. Fos was the sole reason UNO came back Division I, no one can say for sure what direction a new chancellor will take. |
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| Unofan | Sep 9 2015, 05:19 AM Post #4 |
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You're right. I believe that this is mostly about money and what UNO can afford. That being said, I believe that Coach Dean did his homework and hired two competent, if not well known, assistant coaches. He certainly has a lot of resources available, so he probably got input from others in selecting these two coaches. I'm at least willing to give the entire staff a chance to show me what they can do before I come down on them. There's too much negativity out there, and that's coming from a somewhat negative guy. I'm just thankful that we'll have D1 seasons this year! |
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| NSPRIVATEER | Sep 9 2015, 08:09 AM Post #5 |
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I see no reason to get angry with these hires. It seems personal to me. Blake Dean has done everything that he was asked to do by Maes as well as the university. He is not the cause of any problems that the program or the university has and he deserves our support. He has mine. |
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| SaintsFan1985 | Sep 9 2015, 09:56 AM Post #6 |
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Finally a guy (Seahawksman) who knows what they are talking about and isn't being blind sided like everyone else by these terrible hires. I totally agree with your statements. The AD hires a non UNO guy then the head coach hires 2 incompetent , non UNO guys and with no D1 experience nonetheless. ... You couldn't make this up if you tried. Maybe he should have hired a D3 volunteer assistant from Australia or a juco softball instructor because they all seemed just as qualified as the guys Dean hired. NSprivateer, I'll be replying to you directly on this forum 2 years from now, when they have 22 combined wins. |
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| Privateer6 | Sep 9 2015, 10:24 AM Post #7 |
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DI hoops teams oftern hire assistants with JC experience. If Coach Sless hired an assistant from a JC national championship team, would people be complaining about the hire? Or be pleased thinking we might get some of that good talent to head our way? By way of comparison MBB assistant Kris Arkenberg came to Coach Sless' staff from a JC and his only previous DI experience was as a student assistant at IUPUI (not dissimilar to Stewart's year as an volunteer assistant at Nicholls). |
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| SaintsFan1985 | Sep 9 2015, 10:46 AM Post #8 |
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First of all, no one cares about basketball in the south especially in NOLA. Since there is no football at UNO it should be all about baseball. Name the last time UNO basketball was competitive and or relevant ? Exactly my point. |
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| Bill73 | Sep 9 2015, 11:48 AM Post #9 |
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If we have to hire only UNO guys with Division I experience, we would never have hired Ron Maestri. Please tell us what you know about the new hires that makes you so confident they will fail. |
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| Steve | Sep 9 2015, 12:02 PM Post #10 |
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I doubt it took Dean three months to hire them. It seems like, of late, they haven't announced assistants until the beginning of the academic year. Maybe doesn't become official until then. Much like with the head coach search, I'm sure our assistant coach pool was limited. People tend to like job security, even UNO alums. |
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| Unofan | Sep 9 2015, 12:35 PM Post #11 |
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A guy who knows what he's talking about or one who just agrees with you? |
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| Privateer6 | Sep 9 2015, 01:07 PM Post #12 |
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Surely the pool of applicants wasn't going to get larger after the president who championed DI athletics said he was stepping down.
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| Unofan | Sep 9 2015, 01:24 PM Post #13 |
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I doubt if any of us was personally involved in the process of hiring the head coach and his assistants. Who knows who they approached and who declined the job(s)? Everything is speculation. The next complaints will be why we can't recruit All American players to play at UNO. It must be poor recruiting. We just have to be a little realistic here. I would think that some of these assistants at the major and mid-major schools are making more than Coach Dean. The unknown factor of who the next UNO president will be and where he or she will stand on athletics surely comes into play as you stated. |
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| SaintsFan1985 | Sep 10 2015, 03:59 PM Post #14 |
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Bill73 .... There are a lot of D1 asst coaches and D1 head coaches out there that probably applied for this job that were way more qualified than the clowns they hired. It wouldn't have hurt if they hired a UNO alumnus but I'm not saying they had to either. Just so you know D3, NAIA and juco aren't even considered real baseball. That's like being the smartest kid in the remedial class. Most coaches can not make the jump from d3, NAIA , juco to D1. And in 2 years, I'm betting that I will be correct once again. |
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| Bill73 | Sep 10 2015, 04:35 PM Post #15 |
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I did not know that. I don't follow college baseball much. I'm more a basketball fan, and I see lots of JUCO coaches making the jump to D1. What makes the leap so much harder in baseball? |
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| Unofan | Sep 10 2015, 07:37 PM Post #16 |
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I'd like to know how they got to be classified as "clowns"? I love when people attack people who they don't even know. So let me get this straight. The D3, NAIA and JUCO coaches never cross over to D1 in baseball, because it's not real baseball, and they're all clown? Tough profession! |
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| 73Lion | Sep 10 2015, 08:53 PM Post #17 |
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As a Southeastern Lion fan this isn't really my business I guess, but to say that JUCO coaches are clowns and that JUCO isn't really baseball is just comical. A guy by the name of Jay Artigues came to Southeastern from a Junior College and I think he did a pretty decent job and the program remains pretty solid to this day. As for the original comments on this thread, this kind of vitriol doesn't come from objective analysis. This is personal somehow, just don't know the connection. |
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| Unofan | Sep 11 2015, 02:35 AM Post #18 |
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Thank you 73Lion for your intellegent, unbiased comments; my sentiments exactly. Good luck to your Lions during the upcoming football season, and I can only hope that Coach Dean and his staff will be as successful as Southeastern's. Jay Artiques has done an excellent job for the Lions. |
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| SaintsFan1985 | Sep 12 2015, 01:50 PM Post #19 |
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I understand that some guys can come from JUCO or D3s and make good asst coaches but it doesn't not happen often. Also, it took 3 months to hire asst coaches at UNO. I'm guessing most of the recruiting is done in the summer . With that said, Do you know how bad it looks when the head coach is talking to recruits and the recruits ask "who's the pitching and/or hitting coach?" And the head coach says " no one ". Probably lost a lot of recruits based solely off of that conversation. Plus, I'm guessing if you're in the interview process for the head coaching position, you should probably have your assistants lined up just in case you get hired. Clearly , coach Dean was not competent in that aspect. |
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