I have written on here before how much respect I have for him. I think he did a marvelous job in Kentucky given what he had to work with. I am not sure you can find a better developer of pitchers in this conference.
This makes two coaches now who have resigned following 15-15 seasons, both of whom have multiple regionals on their resumes and one of whom just moved into a redone stadium.
Mitch Barnhardt, the AD at Kentucky, didn't give an indication last week which way he was leaning on Henderson. The story today indicates that it was Henderson's choice entirely. Gary was quoted as saying he didn't meet his own expectations. That really says a lot when you consider what Kentucky baseball actually is.
Mitch Gaspard appears to have resigned voluntarily too.
Here are two man with a better record of success, and more obstacles to success, than our guy. Dave Serrano at Tenneessee has the same number of SEC wins over the past three years and more SECT appearances than our guy. He just got a one year extension at $450k, $150,000 less than Scott Stricklin will earn.
All of this really makes me wonder what our expectations are for baseball program. It appears that we are just throwing good money after bad at this point. If Henderson's results in Lexington weren't good enough for him and Serrano's results in Knoxville were barely good enough for Tennessee, it seems strange to me that the Stricklin fiasco is apparently perfectly acceptable here in Athens, at least to the decision makers.
This makes two coaches now who have resigned following 15-15 seasons, both of whom have multiple regionals on their resumes and one of whom just moved into a redone stadium.
Mitch Barnhardt, the AD at Kentucky, didn't give an indication last week which way he was leaning on Henderson. The story today indicates that it was Henderson's choice entirely. Gary was quoted as saying he didn't meet his own expectations. That really says a lot when you consider what Kentucky baseball actually is.
Mitch Gaspard appears to have resigned voluntarily too.
Here are two man with a better record of success, and more obstacles to success, than our guy. Dave Serrano at Tenneessee has the same number of SEC wins over the past three years and more SECT appearances than our guy. He just got a one year extension at $450k, $150,000 less than Scott Stricklin will earn.
All of this really makes me wonder what our expectations are for baseball program. It appears that we are just throwing good money after bad at this point. If Henderson's results in Lexington weren't good enough for him and Serrano's results in Knoxville were barely good enough for Tennessee, it seems strange to me that the Stricklin fiasco is apparently perfectly acceptable here in Athens, at least to the decision makers.
