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[Surly Official Firing Squad] David Pierce Has Left The Building - FIRED

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Mac Engel has a column that is getting texags' panties in a wad: https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/offered-one-reason-why-jim-162910055.html      

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The DP apologists and hand wringers here have to be some kind of paid for bot service. You all are acting like the dude is in year 3. He is in year 8! No way you can argue this is a program on th

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CDC asked Pierce to turn in paperwork for mutual separation the week of the 13th. Obviously that didnt happen and now CDC let him go. They were using the incident with Hurley to help force the resigna

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14 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

After all of this, it would be extremely underwhelming.

Sure but that is out of CDC’s control and it doesn’t change the coach Bakich is. The situation is fluid and I’d rather CDC made sure there wasn’t an open window for Schloss/Vitello. It would suck even more if we went straight to Bakich after the supers and then find out Schloss/Vitello had legitimate interest in the job. 

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5 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

How exactly does "Texas fires Pierce" jibe with "It was a mutual decision?"

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Shaka Smart quit his job, took no package or buyout or anything.

Pierce was quite obviously packaged or facing termination for cause and told he could just resign and call it "mutual" 

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Just now, immamac said:

Shaka Smart quit his job, took no package or buyout or anything.

Pierce was quite obviously packaged or facing termination for cause and told he could just resign and call it "mutual" 

Then why is it being called "fired?"

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2 minutes ago, immamac said:

Shaka Smart quit his job, took no package or buyout or anything.

Pierce was quite obviously packaged or facing termination for cause and told he could just resign and call it "mutual" 


all of this 

we can fire you or this of mutual agreement 

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21 minutes ago, Js1 said:

It was what, less than 2 hours between Herman's firing and Sark's hiring announcements?

CDC is slipping if its someone not Vitello/Schloss.  3 hours now

It was about 12 hours if I remember correctly.

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CDC asked Pierce to turn in paperwork for mutual separation the week of the 13th. Obviously that didnt happen and now CDC let him go. They were using the incident with Hurley to help force the resignation but obviously that didnt happen either. Now here we are. CDC already has the next dude done, no one knows shit and CDC handles coaching searches like a boss ass bitch

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Mac Engel has a column that is getting texags' panties in a wad:

https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/offered-one-reason-why-jim-162910055.html

 

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The timing is absolutely terrible, because it always is in these instances.

On the morning his team prepares to play the decisive Game 3 of the College World Series, Texas A&M baseball coach Jim Schlossnagle has to deal with the speculation that it will be his final game with the Aggies.

Because it makes sense that, win or lose, his tenure in College Station is over.

This is what happens when the University of Texas athletic department has any opening, from janitorial staff to a head coach. Few schools in America can install preventative measures to successfully avoid the “Texas Longhorns Are Hiring” earthquake aftershocks.

Sorry, Texas A&M; you’re in the SEC which means you’re special, but on this, you’re no different than Texas Tech or TCU.

Texas is Texas. Austin is Austin.

If Texas calls Texas A&M’s baseball coach with a job offer, it would be a surprise if he passed. These two have flirted before.

On Monday morning, University of Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte issued a statement confirming what had been a source of nationwide speculation for the last two months. UT fired baseball coach David Pierce, thus creating an opening for one of the most coveted jobs in the sport.

Pierce was the head coach at Texas for eight years and won three Big 12 championships, with three trips to the College World Series. Texas hasn’t won a national title since 2005, so ... you’re fired.

“It was a difficult decision for us both, but we have mutually agreed that we should make a change,” Del Conte said in a statement.

Pierce issued a statement where he expressed gratitude, and that it was time for a change. It helps that Pierce has two years remaining on his contract that pays him $1.2 million per year, and he is entitled to at least 70 percent of that total.

Whom might Del Conte know who might be interested in the job? Everyone. Chris knows everyone. And everyone will want this job. Neither is an exaggeration.

This includes Texas A&M’s Schlossnagle. Del Conte was the TCU athletic director from 2009 to 2017, and his baseball was Schlossnagle.

The TCU baseball program thrived under Schlossnagle in that time. The two had a solid working relationship, and Del Conte extended Schlossnagle’s contract a few times.

When Schlossnagle left TCU for Texas A&M in 2021, a prevailing thought around TCU was that had Del Conte still been at TCU he might have been able to convince him to stay. On this, it’s doubtful even with Del Conte’s sales skills Schlossnagle would have remained at TCU.

In his tenure at TCU Schlossnagle considered other jobs, including Mississippi State, and there were rumblings that Texas wanted him back in 2017. Only until the spring of 2021 did the timing fit for him to leave.

Would he leave College Station after only three years, including this one where he has had the best team in the nation throughout the season? Regardless of the Aggies’ result against Tennessee in the final game on Monday night in Omaha, Texas A&M had one of the best seasons in program history.

His contract situation will make an exit to Texas expensive. According to Danny Davis of the Austin American Statesmen, Schlossnagle made $1.35 million this season, and his “buyout is twice as high if he’s hired by another in-state school.”

The Aggies should have just called it, “The University of Texas provision.”

And, if Texas calls and offers you the job, not only are you listening you’re probably leaving.

Ask Texas Tech about this. Or TCU.

Texas Tech did everything possible to keep basketball coach Chris Beard from leaving Lubbock in 2021, but once UT called, he was gone. Because of Beard’s off-the-court-life, that move turned out to be a disaster, but in the moment when he left it was a slap at the Red Raiders.

When Del Conte was athletic director at TCU, he routinely fielded offers from other universities. He said no to all of them, until Texas called.

There are some jobs that are bigger, and “better,” than the rest.

Since Texas A&M left the Big 12 in 2012 it has spent every available dollar to build a top tier athletic department, and to compete in the SEC. If you can look past the hiring and firing of football coach Jimbo Fisher, which may not be possible, Texas A&M is a premier job in the best league in college athletics.

It’s also not the University of Texas.

As much as the Aggies may like to denigrate the “tea sippers” with taunts of “tu” among a thesaurus of four-letter words, the name Texas is next to Ohio State, Alabama, Michigan and a few others at the top of the college sports pyramid.

Doesn’t mean Texas A&M is a bad job, or a bad place. It’s just not Texas.

If Del Conte calls Schlossnagle, the Aggies should prepare themselves that their baseball coach will pull a Davy Crockett and utter an abridged version of, “You can go to hell — I’m going to Texas.”

 

 

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1 hour ago, JGHorn said:

If I’m CDC, you don’t waste 3 weeks of portal and recruiting if it’s not Vitello or Schloss. Unless one of them f’s us at the end 

Maybe CDC couldn't move on with Pierce until he heard back from HR. That would explain the delay if the lawyers told him to stand fast. I really hope this isn't the case because I want either of tonight's coaches. 

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I know this isn’t the case, because CDC isn’t malicious and chaos isn’t befitting The University, but I have to admire the sequence of events that will ruin today for Aggies everywhere, regardless of the outcome this evening.  

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1 hour ago, pyrohornIII said:

I'm glad we finally have an AD that allows us to say this with confidence.    That post DeLoss Dodds era was brutal. 

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The Dodds era wasn't all that great, either. He kept some great coaches on staff and hired a couple good ones, but the misses outnumbered and outweighed the hits. Deloss made us rich, but he didn't win us very many titles.

 

47 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

Oh, Jesus--I didn't think it was possible for me to cheer against aggy tonight any more than I already was.  But between the prospect of getting Schloss in here countered with the threat of Vitello coaching my team (he may be a great coach, but he's also a fucking tool), I'm going to be cheering for the Vols every much as though it were the Horns out there.

 

Liar. You were cheering for Tennessee like it was the Horns playing them anyway.

 

26 minutes ago, RGBIII said:

CDC asked Pierce to turn in paperwork for mutual separation the week of the 13th. Obviously that didnt happen and now CDC let him go. They were using the incident with Hurley to help force the resignation but obviously that didnt happen either. Now here we are. CDC already has the next dude done, no one knows shit and CDC handles coaching searches like a boss ass bitch

 

Truth.

 

22 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

Mac Engel has a column that is getting texags' panties in a wad:

https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/offered-one-reason-why-jim-162910055.html

 

 

 

 

That article is so good, so full of aggy-angst-ridden truth bombs, that it almost doesn't matter who we hire, now.

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The Dodds era wasn't all that great, either. He kept some great coaches on staff and hired a couple good ones, but the misses outnumbered and outweighed the hits. Deloss made us rich, but he didn't win us very many titles.

Meh. Every school in the country got rich in that era. Dodds was a mediocrity.

But anyway Pierce is gone, and from what I understand the timing is good as the wheels seem to be just starting to come off. Now let's see if the rumors of CDC already having the next coach ready to go are true.

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1 minute ago, Biff Tannen said:

 

Y'all are setting yourselves up for disappointment.


have you followed UT football since 2006 ????

going on 20 of disappointment 

 

 

imo, it’s schloss all the way I don’t think Tony v is in the mix. I’d give up one of y’all’s mom to see cdc’s top 3 list after schloss 

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32 minutes ago, Cousin Strawberry said:

Do y'all really think Vitello or Schlos is a realistic get?

 

 

I would think our baseball program has the cache to attract the top level guys.  Do we need to read aloud our baseball resume? 

Shloss and CDC have a history from TCU.  From reports they are tight.  He has had a front row seat to all of our success over the last two decades.  Gets A&M to the brink of a title, sounds like a perfect time to leave, given the current collegiate sports climate (NIL, relaxed transfer rules etc..).  Every coach at Texas since Gus has been in Omaha multiple times. He knows how to win big and knows the SEC..and most importantly, he knows the pull Texas has.

As far as Vitello, how much more can you win at Tenn..he's got the winningest program in the last decade.  Can he do it on the ultimate stage in Austin?  Remember his dad was a lifer coach, its in his blood to reach the top.   Its hard to name an equivalent to Texas Baseball on the national stage.  Miami had a run, USC was the standard bearer forever, but past that, Texas is the place to be.  He's young enough to go on a run here.  Hes from MO, went to a small catholic college in Mobile, so no ties to TN and iirc , he coached at TCU.

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Educate me here.  In olden days, you couldn't poach somebody's head coach without extending the courtesy of asking permission to talk to them through the AD, and those discussions usually found the light of day.  Now I know that the Beard deal was done at the McD's in Plainview or wherever and don't remember the details.  Assuming it's Schloss, Texas and aggy have to play in the same sandbox to some extent in regards to the Legislature, etc.  Do any of these things matter any more?

aggy is a big believer in handshakes and Gentlemen’s agreements. Fuck’em.
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"Coach, congratulations on winning the College World Series and bringing your school its first title in any sport in decades or nearly a centruy! Where are you going to celebrate?"

"Fuck Disney World, I'm headed to Austin."

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9 minutes ago, DigDug said:

The dude's name is Vaughn, with a nice proper n.

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Disclaimer: I think it's Schloss, but we'll see.

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