I'll be the first to point out in my other posts, I was teetering on giving up on College Baseball completely if players also left. My point was (and still is), that I am not sure I wanted to watch anymore if we now are in an era where everyone's statements, from the coaches down to the players, are all essentially platitudes and all of them (at any school) would transfer at the drop of a hat to follow money (coaches just to cash out from making a name at one school to get a hungry school to pay them more, players just chasing NIL).
That said, as I see the Earley hire unfold, I'm eating crow and really support this, and the public statements the players are making are heart-warming and do help restore some trust that loyalty does still exist in the college baseball world. Perhaps we just hit one of those rare a-hole head coaches that did it in a way that made this seem worse than it really was. We'll see if any players actually follow that "man" of low integrity (my gut is saying no, now), but I totally accept this piece of crow pie that today seems to be serving up.
My sense is Earley, yes, was somewhat railroaded into almost making the change. But like others, I'd like to learn more of the details of why / how this happened.
