Now, can we fire him?

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In reply to sixfoot • 9:28p, 5/17/25
sixfoot said:
According to ChatGPT

As of 2025, there has never been a preseason No. 1 team in NCAA Division I baseball that missed the NCAA Tournament until potentially Texas A&M in 2025.

Historical Context
Every other preseason No. 1 team going back at least 35 years has made the NCAA Tournament.

This stat has never made sense to me. 35 years isn't "never."
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In reply to Captain Pablo • 9:32p, 5/17/25
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So, demote him?

He's guaranteed $3 million to be head coach of Texas A&M, but he's gonna give that up and take a demotion?
Have you ever seen a HC demoted to an assistant at their own school?

No.

This is like people saying "make Jimbo be a janitor."

Contracts prohibit this.
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In reply to 20ag07 • 9:36p, 5/17/25
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20ag07 said:
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So, demote him?

He's guaranteed $3 million to be head coach of Texas A&M, but he's gonna give that up and take a demotion?
Have you ever seen a HC demoted to an assistant at their own school?

No.

This is like people saying "make Jimbo be a janitor."

Contracts prohibit this.
There were plenty of clingers insisting we should keep Jimbo on in some lesser capacity

Rational thought is not a clinger strong point
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In reply to 20ag07 • 9:37p, 5/17/25
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Not to mention no new HC is going to allow being undermined like this.
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10:07p, 5/17/25
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I'm sure this has been mentioned but when a team goes 3-27 in conf and they sweep you AT home for only wins when your season is on the line then you ain't the one.


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In reply to Wicked Good Ag • 10:28p, 5/17/25
Wicked Good Ag said:
Everyone is Fire Earley Fire Earley and i get it but the people who talk about this talented lineup coming back i just dont see it




2024

Grohovac
Chestnutt
Montgomery
LaViolette
Appel
Camarillo
Burton
Schott
Sorrell
* Kent for Montgomery after injury

2025
Only from that list

Grohovac (6 games)
Sorrell (half of season)
Kent
Schott (nursing injury all season in DH role)
LaViolette

none did better than last season all regressed and that is the main question you ask

Because the big three of our expectations none were met at all if you consider Sorrell for half a season only

I dont know what will happen and I dont know if fired or not but I do know we will overpay and be on the hook for 7 years plus worth of contracts in a non revenue sport so you better hit it out of the ball park

and dont forget to add in NIL money from donors as well


You're right, every returning offensive player other tham Sorrell regressed.....but that doesn't mean there wasnt talent there.

You're also ignoring the transfers. We brought in two of the top 5 offensive transfers in the portal.








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In reply to A. G. Pennypacker • 10:38p, 5/17/25
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A. G. Pennypacker said:
Ironically, Earley would have been better off following Schlongnagle to tu.

He gets to walk away with 4 million I think he did just fine for himself here
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In reply to 213 Grove • 10:42p, 5/17/25
213 Grove said:
I'm sure this has been mentioned but when a team goes 3-27 in conf and they sweep you AT home for only wins when your season is on the line then you ain't the one.




Torbush is sadly inadequate here.
94chem,
That, sir, was the greatest post in the history of TexAgs. I salute you. -- Dough
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In reply to 213 Grove • 11:23p, 5/17/25
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In reply to 94chem • 1:10a, 5/18/25
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Yeah my brother who is an MSU Bulldog let me know they took a great big can of whupass up to Missouri with them.

Right after Missouri swept us at home. How much more humiliation are loyal Aggie fans expected to put up with? I've had enough.
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In reply to Maroon Flash • 5:40a, 5/18/25
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Maroon Flash said:
The bigger issue is Trev. He hasn't shown me much. Rule 1 of being an AD ought to be always be prepared to replace a Head Coach.

Obviously he was woefully unprepared when POS left.

And why the hell did he hire a newbie to be Head Coach on the basis of retaining players? Even a dumbass should know that is a piss poor criteria.


I agree with what you are saying. Trev did not do this in a silo. Others were involved and the emotions were high and bad decisions were made. Keeping players from going to Texas, stealing a coach from POS all drove the emotions and bad decisions.

I am very interested in seeing who the head baseball coach will be without emotions driving things this year.
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In reply to LB12Diamond • 7:09a, 5/18/25
Established coaches know AD's etc. They see the severance payouts we have, the coaches who have left us etc. We need a great young coach who can recruit. Still hoping our current coach can do this.
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In reply to dylan • 7:27a, 5/18/25
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dylan said:
We need a great young coach.


Agree with this part.

However, Earley has shown he's not anywhere close to this vicinity.
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In reply to OA_02 • 7:39a, 5/18/25
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OA_02 said:
Players get the credit, coaches get the blame. Absolutely hilarious to me some of you insinuating the players are even remotely on the same level of culpability as Earley. Just laughable.

Our friends in austin were absolute garbage for the previous several years, a new coach comes in and throws a makeshift roster together at the last minute and wins the conference in year 1 and will be in the mix for the cws and possibly nc. On the other hand, we have an absolutely loaded roster per just about every source out there and end up collapsing in historic fashion to end up one of the worst teams in the league. Yeah. Surely it's more the players sucking and not the fact that we have the worst coach in the conference.

It's so beyond laughable that anyone would even remotely put this embarrassment on anyone other than Mike Earley.
This. Sorry but most are missing the point. Who cares if this roster was as talented or not as last year. Fact IS, it was absolutely a top 20 talented team. That's not even pushing it. And this team should have easily made the tourney. So stop with the talent debate as it is meaningless to the larger debate.

It is VERY obvious if you listen to Earley that he is overwhelmed at times and has no answers. He looks to the players for solutions and has a peer to peer relationship.

It is a bad coaching model. Just look at the hated Schloss who most players generally do not like on a personal level.

Earley needs to go IMO. He tanked this team and I knew this team was different, in a bad way, immediately after watching the Elon series. Hitting was 110% different from Schloss' approach. Earley gambled EVERYTHING on barrel ball and HRs. Then he attempted a mid season change. He screwed up big time and focused hitters 1-9 on sending balls out of the park. So annoying watching all the damn pop ups prior to SEC play. Even told my kids, if this team ain't hitting balls out, they are losing. Guess what happened….EXACTLY THAT.

Sorry but this is on Earley and such poor and sometimes clueless decisions.

If he is retained, you must commit all 3 years and hope he matures quickly as a HC. He must fire Kelly and improve his staff significantly. But if that's the case….get a new HC.

Sorry Earley…..we tried. Time to gain more experience.
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In reply to 94chem • 8:25a, 5/18/25
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I'd say Wyatt met baseline expectations and Kash did not. Wyatt was supposed to be our 2nd baseman. He hit low 3's. I'll take that from him as an 2nd baseman all day. I think he was limited defensively at 3rd because the velo he saw off of the bat here isn't the same at Penn. We missed GG there badly but we had no one else to put there. Wyatt did his best every game and I appreciated it.

Kendall Rogers said Kash was the best hitter in fall camp, and that's with Sorrell hitting well all fall. Somewhere pre conference he hurt his back and it went downhill. It hit bottom when he pulled his hammy vs Kentucky stretching out for a 3rd out on Sunday trying to help us win a game. Yesterday he cleared the batters eye and a building. He flashed all weekend what he could have been. It's unfortunate.

The real question I have is who was the leader/s among the players? I couldn't tell you who that would have been.
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In reply to TAMU1990 • 8:27a, 5/18/25
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Well our skipper had Kash at left field instead of first base for the first month. And it's clear he missed that one by a mile.

Earley had to be hit in the head with a shovel at times to make correct decisions and sometimes even if that occurred he still was either to clueless or stubborn to make obvious changes such as keeping Jace in the lead off spot.
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In reply to dcg4403 • 8:28a, 5/18/25
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If he somehow manages to keep his job what's the point in giving himnmore than another year after we inevitably suck again next year?
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In reply to LB12Diamond • 8:31a, 5/18/25
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I've wondered if Earley made recruiting promises to give him a chance in the OF to get him here? His back could have been on the field injury or weight room.
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In reply to LB12Diamond • 8:32a, 5/18/25
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Neither Kash nor Binderup fielded their opening day positions at an acceptable level. I don't remember Henseler impressing much at 2B either. Then it took us like a month to figure out who could play 2B and who could play LF? How does that happen?
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In reply to TAMU1990 • 8:34a, 5/18/25
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Why would he make that promise? There was no returning established first baseman. If anything he most likely told him that one to get him here and then put him in the outfield bc we thought Bindy could play first.

Earley has shown me he's pretty clueless. If the practices were done correctly it should have been obvious that Kash was our best defensive first baseman just like it was clearly shown in the games.
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8:35a, 5/18/25
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Forget this season...

How has recruiting gone during his tenure?

Have we gained or lost ground in the Earley Era?
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In reply to Killzone3abc • 8:36a, 5/18/25
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Killzone3abc said:
Neither Kash nor Binderup fielded their opening day positions at an acceptable level. I don't remember Henseler impressing much at 2B either. Then it took us like a month to figure out who could play 2B and who could play LF? How does that happen?


That happens for any number of reasons.

Crap practices and a coach who plays politics more than focus on players earning open spots the most likely reasoning.
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In reply to Serious Lee • 8:37a, 5/18/25
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Serious Lee said:
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As infuriating as it was to watch our guys not swing at close strike 3 pitches during the Schloss era it's clear as day that was a feature of him and not Earley.

Got it?
several here that dont get it. there seems to be this assumption that the approach was the same this year as last just cause 1 person with the title of "hitting coach" is now in charge of everything.

its more likely he was about as much in charge of the offense as bobby petrino was for jimbo, and was valued for his recruiting above all else.


I'm pretty sure Earley was in charge of the technical hitting aspects and working on everyone's swings, etc. The offensive approach and strategy was all Schloss though.
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In reply to LB12Diamond • 8:40a, 5/18/25
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My understanding was Kash wanted to play OF to show the scouts versatility or something and that was part of the discussion for him to come here. You can't stick with that when the defense was THAT bad though.
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In reply to Fairview20 • 8:40a, 5/18/25
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Agreed that seems rather apparent at this point
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In reply to LB12Diamond • 8:41a, 5/18/25
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Because I remember Brauny saying this - we were giving him a shot in the OF. I'm adding in the recruiting pitch as an hypothesis. Kash didn't take 1 rep in the infield last fall - another thing Brauny said.
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In reply to TAMU1990 • 8:43a, 5/18/25
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That's the insane part. That this staff saw Binderup and Bergevin play 1B and thought "yea this is good enough" to the point where they didn't try anyone else over there.
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In reply to Killzone3abc • 8:45a, 5/18/25
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I could understand splitting fall reps at both positions. But none?

People have also asked why he went to a knee sometimes to get a ball. Low throw and back back is my guess.
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In reply to Wicked Good Ag • 8:46a, 5/18/25
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You have to understand the #1 ranking also accounted for Prager and Lamkin being back right?

Not to mention you did not even list any of our transfers. Hensler and Kash were top 5-10 transfers in the country, both of which had been All Americans at their previous schools.
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8:46a, 5/18/25
Conference only hitting stats were atrocious. Id say only Caden Wyatt and Bear met or exceeded expectations in conference play. Everyone else underwhelmed.
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In reply to Bunk Moreland • 8:48a, 5/18/25
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I agree - they said we entered the game yesterday at .236
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In reply to Gomer95 • 8:50a, 5/18/25
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We had a 0.336 winning percentage in the league. I would say it was almost all down this year. The lineup got hot during a 3 week stretch, not to mention the Tennessee series win doesn't even look that impressive anymore considering they lost 6/7 series to finish the year.
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In reply to TAMU1990 • 8:52a, 5/18/25
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TAMU1990 said:
Because I remember Brauny saying this - we were giving him a shot in the OF. I'm adding in the recruiting pitch as an hypothesis. Kash didn't take 1 rep in the infield last fall - another thing Brauny said.


When I hear that one and I see how the season played out, tells me the coaches did not want to take a chance on practice showing Kash deserved to be the first baseman.

Again, the games showed they missed this one by a mile.

So many signs of bad coaching choices this season. Earley made several choices using politics. That's one of my least favorite traits of coaches. Most of the time it does not work. And kills moral on the team.
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9:18a, 5/18/25
Yeah I'm not sure how talented this team really was. Lame duck head coach or not, it seems like you should be able to take a game from Mizzou on talent alone. Jace turned into the college version of Joey Gallo. Actually our whole team seemed to take a Joey Gallo approach at the plate.
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In reply to SourLakeAg • 9:22a, 5/18/25
SourLakeAg said:
Yeah I'm not sure how talented this team really was. Lame duck head coach or not, it seems like you should be able to take a game from Mizzou on talent alone. Jace turned into the college version of Joey Gallo. Actually our whole team seemed to take a Joey Gallo approach at the plate.


Plenty talented. Not well coached.
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