In Baton Rouge, many are asking the following question.
What’s taking so long?
Two weeks have passed since Paul Mainieri announced the 2021 baseball season would be his last as the head coach at LSU. His final season ended this past Sunday.
Since then, a ton of rumors have been flying as well as reports that LSU had interviewed former player and current Ole Miss head coach Mike Bianco.
But it seems the information pipeline has dried up.
Even the Ole Miss director of athletics, Keith Carter, said there was a “lot of bad info” out there regarding Bianco.
Here’s my take.
LSU hasn’t hired a coach yet, because they want to take their swing at either Vanderbilt’s Tim Corbin or Tennessee’s Tony Vitello.
Both are coaching in the College World Series.
That means LSU must wait.
If they had decided on Bianco or East Carolina’s Cliff Godwin, who also was rumored to be interviewed, LSU would have made the move, right?
Instead, crickets.
A Corbin or Vitello hire would fit the profile of LSU director of athletics Scott Woodward. Loaded with wheelbarrows of cash, he recently landed Baylor women’s basketball coach Kim Mulkey. At Texas A&M, Woodward lured football coach Jimbo Fisher from Florida State with $75 million guaranteed.
He is the bwana, the big game hunter.
So that’s why Corbin or Vitello make sense.
In the next two weeks, Corbin could win his third title at Vandy. What else does he have to prove there?
Vitello, beloved at Tennessee, at least has to consider taking over the Tigers.
LSU will pay top dollar, and the program already has the stadium that Tennessee will likely promise Vitello.
While it’s not the overwhelming powerhouse it once was, LSU is still one of the top two or three baseball jobs in the college game. For a mountain climber, it is Mount Everest. Can the climber ascend to the Mount Rushmore of LSU baseball?
Bianco would be a very solid choice. Several Louisiana baseball coaches I have spoken to this week all think he would win big at LSU.
In Mississippi, Ole Miss and Mississippi State divide the best players. He would have no such dilemma at LSU.
Bianco would be a popular choice among former players.
Godwin would also be a great hire. He’s reached three Super Regionals at East Carolina. He was also an assistant at LSU and Ole Miss.
However, the longer the search continues, and you are left to wonder if … Scott Woodward is waiting on someone.
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