Anybody have any updates on who the new coach might be?

weaver

I would love to see Weaver get it, but it is not going to happen. He would do a great job, but Byrne will hire a head coach that has been there and done that. Don't know who it will be though. Hopefully they will keep Mark around as an assistant.

So are we ever going to get a head coach? I was told that we have already lost one recruit. Bill needs to get the show on the road! Any news out there?

What recruit did we lose?

We lost the walk-on, which doesn't seem like that big of a deal. We can't lose anyone else because they have signed papers.

We lost the Arkansas transfer who would have played middle of the lineup. She would have knocked one of our crappy lower players out of the lineup like Stephanie Davdison so I would say that it is a pretty big deal. If she was playing for us this past year I would say we would have beaten SMU and possibly Florida State. Sweet 16!

I'm sure that she was better than what we have had before, but it's not a big deal. There is a reason Arkansas cut her and a reason we didn't give her a scholarship. We are still getting 3 new players that will hopefully be an improvement and also returning a few very good ones.

We're not going to be winning any championships next year anyway. I would rather they take their time and hire the right person who can make something of this team before Nazari's entire career is wasted on mediocre teams.

BTW it would have taken a lot more than a walk-on who got cut from Arkansas for lack of effort/commitment to put us into the sweet 16 last year.

Did you not see the match against SMU? Stephanie Davidson lost to won of the worst players in major Div.1 programs at #6 (Ashley Turpin). Turpin hardly won a match all year for SMU.If you add one more better player in the lineup we beat SMU. SMU beat Florida State in the next round to make the Sweet 16.

All of that is yesterdays story...who is the Arkansas tennis coach and does he play into any of this?

Yeah, using that "A should have beat B who beat C" logic you can usually "prove" that Baylor should be the football national champ every year. It doesn't work that way.

We played a great match against SMU in the first round that we should have won and then SMU matched up great against FSU and took advantage of it. We didn't match up well with most top teams because most top teams have good players at 4-6, so we were starting the match off basically down 0-3 against most top 25 type teams.

The walk-on who I guess is no longer coming couldn't win a match to save her life early in the season last year and got cut from their team. I don't think she was going to be the key to our sweet 16 run and I don't think she was the future of the team. This team is at least one season away from being a Sweet 16 team, and that's if we hire a coach that can recruit.

Kelsey Sundaram 11-8 overall 2-1 vs Nationally ranked opponents. Since you are just making things up. From the Arkansas website by the way. Couldn't win a match to save her life huh!

Arkansas coach is Hagerty, and I don't think he is being interviewed

Would've been nice to see Sundaram get a shot in Aggieland...wonder where she'll end up now. Was clearly a kid with big potential (as was posted in more details above) to have a winning record at the D-1 level with a "poor attitude." She did about the only thing you can do at that point, which is to transfer, try and get a fresh start somewhere else, and find somewhere that clicks.

Disappointing that we never got the chance to try that.

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pro level, flawless technique along with a very big serve.

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bwhahahahhaha...pro level really? So thats she was a walk on here...and played 4-6? Nice.

The quality of the candidates that I have heard are disappointing! Weaver, who is one of the best players to ever play here is not one of them. As well respected as he is in the tennis world, he should at least have gotten an interview. No Aggie family here at Texas A&M anymore!

Still don't buy the "not a family" bit. You know that he and BB have at least discussed it and/or Weaver decided he wasn't right for the job. If Weaver wanted to interview for him, you know BB would at LEAST give him that opportunity, or he would've been out the door with BK.

My guess is that Weaver, who's only been a paid assistant at the NCAA level for 4 years, knows that it's not time to take over a program with top 10-15 aspirations yet. If he thinks he's ready to take over the A&M program, then he's definitely ready to take over another program, and he would've been applying for other positions anyways.

I could see a situation where we bring in a veteran coach who's a few years out of retirement to put the finishing touches on Weaver's career before passing it off. Assistants don't just exist to coach...they're supposed to LEARN from their head coach as well. He's only ever worked under one coach, who the University wasn't happy with for those 4 years. That says to me they'd rather see him get some seasoning and experience with different methods/styles, and THEN become the head coach.

Coaching isn't all about raw talent. Like everything else, there's plenty to be learned, and just because you're an NCAA assistant for 4 years doesn't mean you've learned all that you can learn as an assistant.

You guys are severely underestimating Weaver's ability.. You realize Coach K came from Bryan HS to coach..

Why not give weaver a chance keep an Aggie at the helm?? and I'm sure we could get it on the cheap..

If it was my choice, I would give Weaver a chance. Don't think they are looking at him though.

Wasn't Byrne's most high profile and most important hire an "in the family" hire? (Mike Sherman)

"In the family" is part of what so many folks hate about the academic side of our University right now. It's what's burned athletic directors from coast to coast, from football on down the list.

If someone "in the family" has the resume, then hire them, but it should typically be coincedence that they were already "in the family." (Remember, there was a time when most of us weren't "in the family"


I don't think anyone really dislikes Weaver, but I think myself and others don't think Texas A&M should be a position that takes huge chances or acts as some sort of test run for inexperienced coaches.

Several of the candidates that I have been told of are no more experienced than Weaver. I think that is what is discouraging to many. We need to bring in a big time coach and it doesn't sound like we are going to get one.

I have heard that the female candidates we are looking at are either inexperienced or havent proven they can get it done yet (Alison Ojeda, etc.) I agree that if we are going to hire someone like that, then why not Weaver? The PC thing to do is to hire a female. I hope that we hire the best candidate, not just the best woman available.

We have got to be able to steal someone good from Arkansas, Oklahoma, etc. but people say those guys aren't even being interviewed.

Why are we not bringing in better candidates? I was just told that there is one current head coach coming in for a for an interview. Doesn't sound good to me!

Ricardo Rubio, Texas men's assistant, is on campus now

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You guys are severely underestimating Weaver's ability.. You realize Coach K came from Bryan HS to coach..

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Your conclusion may or may not be valid, but your reasoning is flawed. It's a whole different ballgame than when BK came to campus, as has been discussed before...

Rubio seems to have as good of credentials as you could want from assistant. Was a good player, has almost a decade of college experience (at a highly successful program), knows the recruiting ground well.

I'm not saying that Weaver wouldn't make a good head coach. I don't even know aside from what I've heard on here that he isn't a candidate. All I'm saying is that if what you guys are saying is true, and he's not being considered, ATM I've gotta trust BB and the process. People have questioned some things he's done, but no argument that he's made many quality hires since he's been here.

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I don't understand how anyone would be disappointed in Rubio, Ojeda or Weaver. Look at any of their backgrounds and its pretty impressive.

Rubio and Ojeda are highly respected in the coaching ranks. Our program is going to the next level with either one.

read the bios below. We are going to get a good one!

http://www.baylorbears.com/sports/w-tennis/mtt/ojeda_alison00.html

http://www.texassports.com/sports/m-tennis/mtt/rubio_ricardo00.html



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Ojeda has already proven that she couldn't get it done at Middle TN St. One year as the assistant at Baylor and now all of the sudden she's ready to take a team all the way?

Rubio has never coached women but at least he hasn't tried and fizzled already.

I think either of them would do a better job than Kleinecke but I would have rather seen someone that has gotten it done as a head coach somewhere else before.

I agree with Harry. Ojeda did nothing at Middle Tennessee as a head coach. She has been at Baylor for one year and they did well this year, but they have been one of the top programs in the nation for the last 10 years so I wouldn't give her any credit there. Rubio would probably do a good job but has only been an assistant and has never coached on the women's side. I hope we have some better choices still coming!

Bill Byrne has never hired an assistant coach to be a head coach that I am aware of so what is going on if all the candidates but one are assistant coaches? Who is the one head coach coming in for an interview?

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Bill Byrne has never hired an assistant coach to be a head coach that I am aware of so what is going on if all the candidates but one are assistant coaches?

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Rob Childress says hi.

Rubio is a ITA National Assistant Coach of the Year and 3 time ITA South Central Regional Assistant Coach of the year. That tells me he can coach. It might have been on the mens side but come on. How can you be down on that guy.

MTSU is a tough gig folks. Ojeda left MTSU with a winning conference record. Looking at the stats it is only the 3rd time they have had a winning conference record since joining the Sunbelt Conference. MTSU is a bottom tier Div 1 program. Programs like that pay head coaches squat. Pay is less than what assistant coaches make at the Baylors and A&Ms. They have little to offer recruits and don't spend money for the coaches to go recruit all over the country and overseas. You go to places like that to put the title of HEAD COACH on your resume.

Ojeda was with A&M 2 years and they were the 2 best years A&M has EVER had (2 Big 12 titles). She has been at Baylor 1 year and they had one of the best years they have ever had (Big 12 title and final 4).

Obviously Baylor saw something to pull her away from MTSU.

A&M is going to get who they think is going to take them to the next level. I will be happy with either.

Who else is being considered?

Rodney Harmon, USTA coach, has been rumored to be getting an interview

Over a month and no announcement. BB had to have his paperwork done for Bobby when he got back from Stanford so the decision has been known for God knows how long by Byrne. Even with all the recruits in the stable and set I'd be skitish that some (like Nazari) might just say, "Hey, don't we need a head honcho here?" I can understand most head coaches feeling set where they are if they produce but traveling around the only place I've seen with facilities like ours is Baylor, and NOBODY beats our following.