Baseball Season Has Ended; What Do We Do With Childress?
by Beergut on Jun 8, 2010 3:55 PM CDT
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PrintAfter the Aggies 10-3 loss in the rain-extended game against Miami today, our baseball season is over. We have now finished five seasons of play under the leadership of Rob Childress, with not one single trip to Omaha among them. My expectation for Aggie baseball is that we be a constant presence in Omaha, and it doesn't look like we are anywhere close to getting there under Childress' leadership.
Without even going into the streaky nature of play our teams seem to experience under Childress, or their inbility to run the bases in an intelligent matter, or their lack of knowledge of the basic fundamentals of the game (how many errors did we have this season?), I am left with a simple question: Should Rob Childress stay or go?
While I'm sure there are many people who will think this is premature, who think we should keep Childress as long as we keep having winning seasons and going to the NCAA Tournament, I expect more from our program and our coach. I want to win the NCAA College World Series in baseball, and I want a coach who can lead us to that accomplishment, and right now, I am not sure we have that coach in place.
I believe five years is plenty of time to get your program in place and show some signs of progress, and so far, we seem to be stuck in the same place; good enough to make a regional, good enough to occasionally win a regional and advance to a Super Regional, but not good enough to take the next step, win a Super Regional, and advance to Omaha.
While I seriously doubt $Bill has any intention at all of firing his good buddy (this is the man who gave Melvin Watkins a contract extension after his best year was 16-16), I still think this is a subject that warrant discusion. I think it is time to fire Chldress, and go talk to George Horton at Oregon, and hire the man we should have hired five years ago.
What say you?
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It's fine to bring it up but I say he should stay...
While I really did not care for the way Childress handled the ratation in the regionals, I don’t think he should go. He recruits well and his puts the pieces in place to win. As far as the errors, did you watch the games this year?
The Aggies tried 73 different people at 2nd before settling on Adam Smith. It’s not his fault that none of the guys could field a ground ball. There was no solution other than moving Greene in from CF, which he did. Maybe Stilson could have given it a go but he didn’t hit well enough to play everyday.
I guess the question is, “Why didnt’ Childress throw Stripling (who I never believed was the #2) against FIU and save Loux for Miami in game 2?” The Aggies very well may have breezed through the regionals instead having to weather five games to try to swim through the loser’s bracket.
If you think that means he needs to go, I respectfully disagree.
Congrats to Loux, Greene and Nick Fleece.
by HoustonSportsScene.com on Jun 8, 2010 6:11 PM CDT reply actions
I posted on here about 2 months ago when BG posed the question
and I stated that he should be fired. Apparently, he saw my post and got his things in order, and did an amazing job to close the season. In mid-April, A&M was in the pits and playing like a team that had no purpose. Childress rallied the troops and went on a tear in the Big 12 and eventually won the Big 12 tournament. They ran into a buzzsaw in Miami, but still played much better than expected at mid-season. For those reasons, I feel he should be given one more chance.
Stumpy: It's called the '80s. Ford was president, Nixon was in the White House, and FDR was running this country into the ground. I was bummin' in a hole-in-the-wall town in what is now called "Utah".
I think it is obvious that he is not the man for the job. The Bryan HS coach could get us to a regional. He was hired to get us to Omaha.
by miketag on Jun 9, 2010 11:24 AM CDT via mobile reply actions
Careful what you wish for
If Mack would have been fired after season 5, we wouldn’t be sitting at the top of the Big 12 dominating everyone.
Not sure what the obstacles for Childress were when he took the job but he was successful at Nebraska. Afterall, he is coaching against Garrido who is a living baseball legend. When you blow up a program you start all over building recruiting relationships with High School coaches and players
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