As much as what you’re saying is correct, it’s also wrong. Big time collegiate athletics is a business. There is money hand over fist, to be made when the proper investments and hires are made. When your nepotism interferes with hiring the best candidates, you don’t make as much money, and it hinders your ability to bring in more.
Correct. Instead of recruiting showcase players can we recruit baseball players we have actually seen play in some games versus 5 swings at a showcase?!!
It's a business, but unlike the typical business where leaders are tasked with delivering, and the stakeholders just grade the bottom line, the stakeholders want to have an actual say. That's the problem. You see this issue at Texas, at Texas A&M and other schools, and those schools have multiple whale donors. Miami has a clique that can grind things to a halt if their voice isn't heard or acted upon. That's college sports. You need donors, those donors know you need them and they can throw their weight around thanks to them being the reason the department is able to do anything. That's why someone like Rad is out here trying to find more donors and revenue to where he isn't as beholden to the clique.
Perhaps JD should have read the Wiki page on balks. It makes it that much more embarrassing that a former pitcher and pitching coach doesn't know the rules.
nothing “past the infield diamond” …..How about recalibrating your ball tracker, and reassessing your statement.
youre not wrong. they care more about their influence than actual results. it literally describes miami as a whole (not the program but the area in general).
what statement does he need to make? he signed off on this dude. he has zero control over his hires. hes likely only made one hire in his time here and that was the womens coach. he didnt hire mario. he didnt hire JD. he doesnt even have the money to carry out the planned construction at UM in terms of what was initially proposed. the AD may change, but the problems are still the same. its the people within the program that are the cancers and it starts with Rudy
You’re absolutely correct. I wasn’t saying you were wrong about Miami and other loser schools who do the same. I was saying, it should be run like an actual business.
The proverbial, we believe in JD and expect great things in the future bullsh#&...or we expect a better product than what has been exhibited so far and I will evaluate the program extensively at years end.
The pitcher can't even be on the dirt without the ball.
Considering it’s baseball rather than football or men’s basketball, they almost certainly ignore it until someone asks Rad about it (could be a long time!), and then you get something along the lines of “young team,” “trust his process,” and “we believe in JD.”