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Not sure how much stock to put in this. Jeff Christy was a volunteer assistant the last two years at A&M. Again, pretty underwhelming.
Did I hear correctly that Jeff Christy will be hired as the pitching coach?I'm good with Bolt as HC with a proven pitching coach, but underwhelming doesn't begin to describe bringing in two volunteers to be on his staff.
Did I hear correctly that Jeff Christy will be hired as the pitching coach?
Christy called the pitches himself at NU, didn't he? It might work.
True, but calling pitches and developing pitchers are not one in the same. We will see what he is and isn’t capable of. I guess if they are great recruiters it won’t matter as much.Christy called the pitches himself at NU, didn't he? It might work.
He's a good hire. Moos set himself up for failure on this one when he outlined the criteria and gave everyone false expectations IMO. Maybe he thought he had Childress in the bag at that point, but most, if not all would have been happy with Boldt until Moos made those initial statements about what he wanted in our next HC. Anything other than a proven HC coming here was destined to be a bit of a let down after that for many fans.Went and watched Michigan in the opening round of the CWS.
It was a nice cold shower after 11 days of wet dreams.
I am extremely excited for the future of Husker Baseball.
Really like Harvell's bio. Let's see what Christy has learned from Childress.
Coach Bolt was groomed to take this job. Just didn't know it'd be now.
Not saying it will completely click together right away, but the future is here.
My concern is with the players, making sure they know they are still in very good hands. All their goals and dreams are still there for them, even more so.
So when they do read our little musings (because they do) they don't start over thinking the situation too much. Most the players that have responded to the hiring, has so far been positive. And it should be!
I highly recommend anyone that has not heard it yet, to go archive the first hour of the Friday, June 14 edition of Sports Nightly (Huskers.com - multimedia) and their interview with Coach Bolt. It's the interview that all the recent articles were quoted from. My favorite part was hearing how Bolt was watching this Husker team on his phone, before the job even opened up.
Will Bolt bleeds scarlet red.
I believe he and his staff will do their best for us.
Excited to see the first look of the new Will Bolt era this Fall
My feelings too. It's great that Bolt is excited to be back at Nebraska, and he should be given enough time to prove himself, but his hire was underwhelming and the assistant hires even more so. You can come up with all the positive comments about him in the world from other coaches, but I'll take real experience over that, and there just isn't much of that in this staff. I always try to look at coaching hires from the standpoint of what an outsider sees-they're not wowed by a former player coming back. I just don't think other teams are suddenly more concerned about us than they were before. Bolt could turn out to be a great hire and I really hope he does, because I don't think we're doing this again for awhile. But for now, I think we really missed an opportunity by going with a "safe choice".I can just hope I am wrong but I am very underwhelmed by all the hires. Not sure what there is to be excited about at all. This group may be very successful and I am hopeful that happens but there is no indications saying they will be!
Why did Childress have to be the only other option? When I said we had a missed opportunity, I wasn't even thinking about him. I was skeptical of him coming from the very beginning.There are other good D-1 head coaches out there that we could have gotten, and it doesn't look like we even tried. You mentioned Indiana-they didn't get a big name, but they did get a coach with D-1 head coaching experience who had already led a team to the NCAA tournament. That's better than we got. We settled for the safe choice which would please fans regardless of his lack of D-1 head coaching experience. That's the missed opportunity. Of course, that lack of D-I head coaching experience doesn't mean Bolt can't succeed here. But I heard a lot of this same hype about Darin Erstad too despite his lack of coaching experience, and it turned out to be unfounded.I don't believe Childress's ego would let him come back to the B1G.
No matter how much money you threw at him, "at this time".
So I don't see a missed opportunity.
Why did Childress have to be the only other option? When I said we had a missed opportunity, I wasn't even thinking about him. I was skeptical of him coming from the very beginning.There are other good D-1 head coaches out there that we could have gotten, and it doesn't look like we even tried. You mentioned Indiana-they didn't get a big name, but they did get a coach with D-1 head coaching experience who had already led a team to the NCAA tournament. That's better than we got. We settled for the safe choice which would please fans regardless of his lack of D-1 head coaching experience. That's the missed opportunity. Of course, that lack of D-I head coaching experience doesn't mean Bolt can't succeed here. But I heard a lot of this same hype about Darin Erstad too despite his lack of coaching experience, and it turned out to be unfounded.
This is all just speculation on my part, but I really think Moos was really caught off guard by Erstad's resignation and had to scramble to get a replacement. He didn't have any names in mind since he really has little background with college baseball because Oregon didn't even have a team while he was there, and Washington State has little tradition to speak of-his only baseball hire there was fired this year after 4 bad years. I think he decided first to swing for the fences with a big name hire and when that didn't pan out, he didn't want to drag out the process and went with the easy and safe choice and listened to those who were in his ear telling him to hire Bolt.I would like to know how things went down and how close we were to bringing Childress back. Regardless, I have a hard time believing if they offered someone like Heefner big money that he wouldn't have taken the job.
I'm all in on Bolt, mostly because there's no other option. I do think he will instantly improve the offense and recruiting. That being said, Moos either swung and missed on several guys, or tucked his tail when Childress said no and pretended Bolt was the guy all along.
Why did Childress have to be the only other option? When I said we had a missed opportunity, I wasn't even thinking about him..
The 2 things that stand out with that, from previous comments.
- "many close to (Childress) wanted him to stay"
That could mean family, administration, players, hunting buddies, non-grumpy fans, or even a combination of all the above. The fact that Robb even answered the phone is awesome! He gave his best reccomendation. He trained his reccomendation for the job in the highest levels in college baseball. He trained his volunteer, our new pitching coach. So this may be the discount version....
- "money was never an issue"
Well good.
Because when this staff does prove itself, they better get paid competitively.
I’ve talked with A&M fans that are clients. They weren’t that upset with Bolt as some to try to insinuate here.A lot of A&M fans wanted Bolt gone (if not Childress as well). Bolt getting the NU job is a huge win win for Childress.
Yeah, conversation with Casey didn’t last long but still worth the call. They also asked him on his thoughts regarding potential coaches he recommend.I’ve talked with A&M fans that are clients. They weren’t that upset with Bolt as some to try to insinuate here.
Also say next to a gentleman from Oregon at CWS. He said the only place Casey would coach at again, IF he does, is back at Oregon State.