GT baseball will not retain their pitching coach. This effectively means everybody on staff other than Danny Hall was hired in the last year. That's effectively an entirely new staff. This smells like another quiet Stansbury cleanup operation a la the WBB program. The figurehead is still there but everything underneath him is new. Sounds like a sneaky way to change staffs with minimal recruiting impact while emphasizing to Danny Hall we do things differently around here now that Bobinski isn't in town. It has all the hallmarks of Stansbury clean up operations:
Football -> Paul Johnson -> Retired -> Geoff Collins (O'Leary 3.0) ... instant impact
WBB -> Michelle Joseph -> Ethics -> Nell Fortner (an upgrade in reputation alone, lots of connections in media and SE recruiting)
Softball -> Shelly Hoerner -> Contract not renewed -> Aileen Morales (former All-American at GT) ... instant impact, double digit win improvement year one
Baseball -> New hitting coaches hired last year ... get a #3 seed behind an explosive offense ... new pitching coach this year.
It's hard to ignore the patterns.
- Nobody is fired .... at least not with those words. And there's no "buyouts" either, though there are "mutual decisions", whatever that is. Probably "here's some money, less than your buyout, for us to not taint your reputation with "fired" on the resume.
- Not shy about making changes in programs that use to be elite with current coaches but stalled (Football, WBB, Baseball)
- While only the long run can determine the success of the hires, each seems to do a standard deviation better immediately first year
https://www.ajc.com/sports/college/georg...NkrYEyTGN/