Five Thoughts On Mississippi State Baseball Hiring Chris Lemonis

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No, This Isn’t An Underwhelming Hire. It’s Actually A Pretty Good One for Mississippi State Baseball.

Many Mississippi State baseball fans are currently up in arms and upset over MSU hiring Chris Lemonis. Many fans expected MSU to get a high profile coach or for the Bulldogs to at least keep Gary Henderson.

They didn’t do either of those things. Instead, the Bulldogs went with a head coach that many MSU fans weren’t overly familiar with. Hiring someone like Chris Lemonis was completely unexpected by many.

And that’s okay.

Yes, based off of the criteria and description that Cohen set coming into this coaching search, it was reasonable to think that the Bulldogs would choose someone with notably more head coaching experience and success.

However, Lemonis has been a pretty good head coach and is known as a phenomenal recruiter. At Indiana, Lemonis took the Hoosiers to three NCAA Regionals in four years. Before that, Lemonis helped Dan McDonnell turn Louisville into a team that routinely visited Omaha with his recruiting efforts.

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