Ball State baseball coach Greg Beals has been hired to replace the retiring Bob Todd as head coach at Ohio State. Ball State joined Arizona State, Arkansas State, Cal State Fullerton, and Texas as the only schools to produce two players selected in the 1st two rounds of the MLB draft this year. Kolbrin Vitek was selected as the 20th pick in the 1st round by the Boston Red Sox, and pitcher Perci Garner was the Phillies' selection in the 2nd round. Beals spent eight years as head coach at Ball State. Beals' immediate predecessor at Ball State was hired away by the University of Michigan.

(06-17-2010 02:11 PM)LongtimeFan Wrote:  Ball State baseball coach Greg Beals has been hired to replace the retiring Bob Todd as head coach at Ohio State. Ball State joined Arizona State, Arkansas State, Cal State Fullerton, and Texas as the only schools to produce two players selected in the 1st two rounds of the MLB draft this year. Kolbrin Vitek was selected as the 20th pick in the 1st round by the Boston Red Sox, and pitcher Perci Garner was the Phillies' selection in the 2nd round. Beals spent eight years as head coach at Ball State. Beals' immediate predecessor at Ball State was hired away by the University of Michigan.

Good for him but sucks for BSU and the MAC in general losing quality coaches. Believe me, we know the feeling.

This is something the MAC needs to take a stand on. We need to protect our good coaches in all sports. If they are being considered for a job at a "bigger" school, give them a pay raise. Akron is now paying our men's soccer coach the most in the country, because he was about to be hired away by either Clemson or Indiana. We gave our WBB coach a significant pay raise because she was a finalist for the same position at Houston. When other coaches in minor sports are successful enough to be considered by the big boys, it follows logically that they are probably deserving of a better salary. It doesn't have to rival the football or basketball coaches, but it should be enough to send the message that your school cares enough to try and keep the coach. If you just say "good luck, we can't compete with that", you are telling them that you don't care about that program, so why would the coach want to stick around at a school where they don't care?

Thanks for Garner.

(06-17-2010 03:06 PM)uakronkid Wrote:  This is something the MAC needs to take a stand on. We need to protect our good coaches in all sports. If they are being considered for a job at a "bigger" school, give them a pay raise. Akron is now paying our men's soccer coach the most in the country, because he was about to be hired away by either Clemson or Indiana. We gave our WBB coach a significant pay raise because she was a finalist for the same position at Houston. When other coaches in minor sports are successful enough to be considered by the big boys, it follows logically that they are probably deserving of a better salary. It doesn't have to rival the football or basketball coaches, but it should be enough to send the message that your school cares enough to try and keep the coach. If you just say "good luck, we can't compete with that", you are telling them that you don't care about that program, so why would the coach want to stick around at a school where they don't care?

We have done that with our wrestling coach. Borrelli is top 10 in salary in the country but he is easily worth it. However, wrestling coaches' salaries tend to hover around 100k but a few are approaching 200k.

(06-17-2010 02:11 PM)LongtimeFan Wrote:  Ball State baseball coach Greg Beals has been hired to replace the retiring Bob Todd as head coach at Ohio State. Ball State joined Arizona State, Arkansas State, Cal State Fullerton, and Texas as the only schools to produce two players selected in the 1st two rounds of the MLB draft this year. Kolbrin Vitek was selected as the 20th pick in the 1st round by the Boston Red Sox, and pitcher Perci Garner was the Phillies' selection in the 2nd round. Beals spent eight years as head coach at Ball State. Beals' immediate predecessor at Ball State was hired away by the University of Michigan.

He certainly has the right pedigree: former KSU player and coach.

Our coach, Stricklin, is interviewing at ND currently.

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(06-17-2010 03:06 PM)uakronkid Wrote:  This is something the MAC needs to take a stand on. We need to protect our good coaches in all sports. If they are being considered for a job at a "bigger" school, give them a pay raise.

There's no way the MAC can compete in an Arms race against B1G, Pac 12, etc.

Three fold strategy for the MAC:

1. When a coach is being lured away, do offer higher pay and hope that causes Big State U to pay even more than original offer.

2. Insist on buy out clauses for entire life of contract, extensions should have even bigger buyout clauses.

3. Insist that each coach develop a successor plan. AD should be watching for these things. Plan needs to be revised annually.