2022 - Ole Miss (Mike Bianco)
2021 - Miss State (Chris Lemonis)
2020 - NA
2019 - Vanderbilt (Tim Corbin)
2018 - Oregon State (Pat Casey)
2017 - Florida (Kevin O'Sullivan)
2016 - Coastal Carolina (Gary Gilmore)
2015 - Virginia (Brian O'Connor)
2014 - Vanderbilt (Tim Corbin)
2013 - UCLA (John Savage)
2012 - Arizona (Andy Lopez)
If you look at every National Champion from the last 10 years, they all have quality baseball facilities. That includes Coastal Carolina, which seems like the biggest outlier of the bunch, but go check their baseball website. If Georgia hopes to be competitive, it needs to get serious about it's upcoming facilities upgrades. Kid's don't have to have Taj Mahal level facilities. In fact a majority of the past National Champions don't have the biggest stadiums and biggest facilities, but they all have invested in their student athletes to give them the resources and facilities to get better. Our kids deserve the same. No one can argue with that.
I'm not underselling coaching. It goes without saying that facilities don't matter if you don't have quality coaching. I'm not sold on Stricklin and am ready for a change but part of me does wonder if he he could be more successful with better facilities (meaning he can attract better players). I'm willing to give him another couple of years, barring a disaster, to see if he can leverage the upgrades coming our way. If we are ever going to make a HC change, then there is no doubt we have to be willing to pay more than $1 million to bring in a quality coach. The problem is noone worth that is coming to UGA unless we prove that we are serious about baseball.
2021 - Miss State (Chris Lemonis)
2020 - NA
2019 - Vanderbilt (Tim Corbin)
2018 - Oregon State (Pat Casey)
2017 - Florida (Kevin O'Sullivan)
2016 - Coastal Carolina (Gary Gilmore)
2015 - Virginia (Brian O'Connor)
2014 - Vanderbilt (Tim Corbin)
2013 - UCLA (John Savage)
2012 - Arizona (Andy Lopez)
If you look at every National Champion from the last 10 years, they all have quality baseball facilities. That includes Coastal Carolina, which seems like the biggest outlier of the bunch, but go check their baseball website. If Georgia hopes to be competitive, it needs to get serious about it's upcoming facilities upgrades. Kid's don't have to have Taj Mahal level facilities. In fact a majority of the past National Champions don't have the biggest stadiums and biggest facilities, but they all have invested in their student athletes to give them the resources and facilities to get better. Our kids deserve the same. No one can argue with that.
I'm not underselling coaching. It goes without saying that facilities don't matter if you don't have quality coaching. I'm not sold on Stricklin and am ready for a change but part of me does wonder if he he could be more successful with better facilities (meaning he can attract better players). I'm willing to give him another couple of years, barring a disaster, to see if he can leverage the upgrades coming our way. If we are ever going to make a HC change, then there is no doubt we have to be willing to pay more than $1 million to bring in a quality coach. The problem is noone worth that is coming to UGA unless we prove that we are serious about baseball.
