New Baseball Coach Search

[T-Dog]

The posting went up yesterday.

Minimum Qualifications
-Bachelor’s degree required
-Must possess excellent oral and written communication skills
-Strong organizational skills
-4-6 years of collegiate and/or professional baseball coaching experience
-Demonstrated ability to produce and lead a championship level baseball program
-Evidence of successful recruitment and retention of student-athletes
-Knowledge of NCAA Division I rules and regulations

Preferred Qualifications
-NCAA Division I head or assistant coaching experience

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
-Manages all facets of an NCAA Division I baseball program
including but not limited to:
-Academic success
-Recruitment and retention of student-athletes
-Skill development, instruction, and strategies to achieve competitive success
-Budget and resource management
-Scheduling of all competition and training

Proposed Date of Hire
07/18/2016

This isn't going to be a short process. Gillin himself has he'd like the hire to be around August 1st. I've seen it described as "wide open" so those of you who want a national search, you're gonna get one.

Besides Sammy Esposito of South Carolina, no candidates are really known. A couple former players vouched for Josh Jordan, assistant to Pollard at Duke. But this isn't going to be resolved before the CWS, or even Independence Day, or maybe not even til fall camp starts.

[JTApps1]

I've heard Kermit Smith's name thrown around some as well. Played for Pollard at Pfiffer and has taken both Belmont Abbey and Lander to multiple D2 World Series.

[ASUGoose]

I've heard Kermit Smith's name thrown around some as well. Played for Pollard at Pfiffer and has taken both Belmont Abbey and Lander to multiple D2 World Series.

This guys sounds like a great option. No offense to Sammy, but I'd like for us to take the same approach we did when hiring Pollard. Go hire a D2 coach with lots of HEAD coaching experience that has shown he can rebuild to a championship caliber team.

GO 'NEERS!

[asu66]

Reading between the lines, the job description posted by ASU/HR pretty much says...D-II coaches need not apply...

Preferred Qualifications
-NCAA Division I head or assistant coaching experience

We'll see if that changes as the applicants are screened. There are plenty of capable and able D-I head/assistant coaches out there that know or soon will know about our vacancy. Most of the really good ones will not apply. They always wait for the headhunters to contact them. Our search committee co-chairs are going to have to make some LD calls to talk with "ace" coaches.

[appgrad98]

Chris Moore, former ASU assistant under Pollard and a finalist for the position after Pollard left would do an excellent job in my opinion. He understands how to deal with the weather here in Boone, knows how to recruit to win at App, and for what it's worth has moved back to Boone.

[SlappyAppy72]

I've heard Kermit Smith's name thrown around some as well. Played for Pollard at Pfiffer and has taken both Belmont Abbey and Lander to multiple D2 World Series.

This guys sounds like a great option. No offense to Sammy, but I'd like for us to take the same approach we did when hiring Pollard. Go hire a D2 coach with lots of HEAD coaching experience that has shown he can rebuild to a championship caliber team.

GO 'NEERS!

This is spot on. Just read Kermit Smith's bio on the Lander website, the guy is a proven winner and has done it at programs with little to no tradition before he arrived. Sounds like someone that we at least need to interview.

[T-Dog]

I was looking around at coaches from cold-weather climates that have done well and stumbled upon Greg Lovelady at Wright State. Just finished his third year, and has won two straight Horizon League titles and two straight Regional finals, winning 46 games last season.

http://www.wsuraiders.com/ViewArticle.d ... EASON=2015

In Googling his name, I also saw he's been selected to work with USA Baseball in Cary next month.

http://www.mydaytondailynews.com/news/s ... -ba/nrj5P/

[T-Dog]

[NewApp]

<-Demonstrated ability to produce and lead a championship level baseball program>

The above qualification is going to be hard to find and fit our budget, especially if we expect to procure the following:

<Preferred Qualifications
-NCAA Division I head or assistant coaching experience>

[bigCasu]

FWIW, Howell and Huffstetler are former App baseball student athletes.

I'd guess Gibson is hoping for a raise, and Espisito's chronicles are well documented.

[SlappyAppy72]

I don't think we need to give someone his first head coaching job. This is not an easy place to win. With ULL, South Alabama, and whatever the name of that team in Conway, SC is in the Sun Belt, I think it would be a tall order to a expect a first time head coach to come in and win soon enough for us to be happy.

I want someone with head coaching experience that is a proven winner, who has a history of successfully turning a program around and helping it reach new heights. Of those 4 listed, the only one I am interested in is Gibson, solely based off of his head coaching experience. Maybe (definitely) I'm an idiot.

I'd love to know who some of the other 6 that we're interviewing are if anyone has any inside info.

[T-Dog]

BOT meeting on Tuesday the 5th to vote on a coach's contract.

The job posting for women's tennis is still up, but baseball has been taken down.