Here I am watching the SEC Baseball Tournament and wondering why my Dawgs don't have a top notch program. Then I saw Coach Strickland got fired, and I thought of the perfect hire, "a homerun hire" - Paul Mainieri. Here are stats from his last 9 years coaching (excluding covid year 2020) compared to Strickland's last 9 years (excluding covid year 2020). This doesn't include his National Championship in 2009 and other SEC titles & SEC tournament wins. Talk about an upgrade! Mainieri would be the perfect hire to get top players from the portal, while we are renovating our baseball facilities with 45 million." Not sure he will come out of retirement…. but.

Scott Strickland (last 9 Seasons) *2020 Covid N/A
Regular Season Conference: 121 - 146 - 1 = .453
Tournament: 3 - 9 = .250
NCAA Tournament: 5 - 6 = .455
O SEC Regular Season Championships
O SEC Tournament Championships
O Regional Victories
O Super Regional Victories
O College World Series Appearances

Paul Mainieri (last 9 Seasons) *2020 Covid N/A
Regular Season Conference: 165 - 102 - 1 = .607
SEC Tournament: 23 - 10 = .697
NCAA Tournament: 38 - 21 = .644
3 SEC Regular Season Championships
3 SEC Tournament Championships
7 Regional Victories
3 Super Regional Victories
3 College World Series Appearances
1 Runner Up - College World Series

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