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TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee
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TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 28, 2021, 10:56 AM

 
Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee

Clemson athletic director Dan Radakovich addressed reaction to a disappointing season for Clemson baseball and the future of the program under sixth-year head coach Monte Lee in a statement to TigerNet this week. The Tigers finished 25-27 this week out of the ACC Baseball Championship in Charlotte, Read Update »


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Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 28, 2021, 11:14 AM

Time for a change! You care nothing about this program if you fire a man for accomplishing more than Lee and he has first losing season in 63 years and lost 4 regionals and you think he is the man for the job? That’s a crock!

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Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 28, 2021, 12:09 PM

Get on back to gamecock central Coot, you're not welcome hear. You have made 84 post since 2005, that's about 5 post a year, and most are negative, and that shows your true colors cooter loser!!!! Baaaak bak bak baaaaaak, you have laid another rotten egg!!!

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Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 28, 2021, 2:32 PM

I’m not a coot dumbarse! I got more post than De roberts with my other handle ! If you think Monte lee is going to get it turned around then I guess you think Brad Brownell is GoD!

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Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 28, 2021, 5:28 PM

What’s your other handle? We need to make sure we ban both at the same time for rules infraction!

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Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 28, 2021, 5:56 PM [ in reply to Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee ]

Your pulse tells how smart you are with the "14 tigers" screen name, maybe you should go back to your other one, or, is your pulse just as bad as it is with 14 tigers!!!!

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If track record meant anything then Coach Lee wouldn't have


May 28, 2021, 11:25 AM

had a job opportunity in the first place. Less than a handful of coaches had a better track than the guy we fired at that time.

I'm trying to find the consistent element between Leggett's firing and Monte's retention. I don't mind that Monte is being retained, but there doesn't appear to be a consistent expectation for performance of the program.

If it was about "trajectory of the program," like it was under Leggett..... then Lee would have been fired by now because he never reached where Leggett had us and has now fallen under Leggett's worst season in his 22 year career.

Leggett's worst (during his last 6 years) was just a hair short of Monte's best (losing a regional). Monte's worst is worse than Leggett's worst (losing season).

If the program's goal is beating SCAR and winning a ton of midweek games, then our program had improved before this year. If the program's goal is getting as far in the national tourney as possible, then we have have declined.

When Lee was hired, any rational observer would conclude he was a solid hire with a good track record. But that's the risk of firing a coach and hiring a new one. Sometimes you make the program worse.

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Very well said.***


May 28, 2021, 12:14 PM



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It seems clear to me that Leggett's firing wasn't


May 28, 2021, 12:44 PM [ in reply to If track record meant anything then Coach Lee wouldn't have ]

simply about wins and losses. My understanding is that Jack and Radakovich did not see eye to eye on things, and that their personalities were not compatible.

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I could see that...having had multiple encounters with the..


May 28, 2021, 1:14 PM

man. Seemed like an arrogant, hot head to me. I guess those are probably qualities a lot of good coaches possess too at the same time in all fairness.

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Re: It seems clear to me that Leggett's firing wasn't


May 29, 2021, 6:27 AM [ in reply to It seems clear to me that Leggett's firing wasn't ]

JL was and is an #### hat. The fact that he hung around plus attended games after he was let go tells us what we need to know. A good guy/person would have kept his distance out of respect for the new coach

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This is such backwards thinking. The guy loved the program


May 29, 2021, 3:50 PM

Despite his treatment. He cared about his players. He loved talking to fans.

Your comments say more about you than him.

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Re: It seems clear to me that Leggett's firing wasn't


May 29, 2021, 6:52 AM [ in reply to It seems clear to me that Leggett's firing wasn't ]

If it was a personality issue then Radakovich needs to go. If you want to argue trajectory, then I understand the argument. I don't agree with it, but that's fine. Lee's performance has been worse than Coach Leggett's trajectory.

I do not care if my AD and Baseball Coach get along. I work with people that I don't get along with all the time. It doe not mean that we cannot have mutual respect for what the other person does and take care of our responsibilities. I have had to fire people that I liked and put up with ones that I didn't.

If Radakovich is letting personal feelings influence his decisions, then he needs to go more than Lee. Coach Lee is paid to win baseball games. Yes he has to do other things, but I don't care if he is a deacon at church, the life of the party, and wins the Nobel Peace Prize while his players sweep the rest of the categories. Coach Lee lost more games than he won and that doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt because we have some good recruits.

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Excellent post.***


May 28, 2021, 1:16 PM [ in reply to If track record meant anything then Coach Lee wouldn't have ]



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Re: If track record meant anything then Coach Lee wouldn't have


May 28, 2021, 5:31 PM [ in reply to If track record meant anything then Coach Lee wouldn't have ]

Jack's best 3 years were his first 3 years. I did the math back in the day. Every 3 year rolling period (1,2,3 vs. 2,3,4 vs. 3,4,5 etc.) the average number of wins declined! The 2006 and 2010 seasons were aberrations. Complete anomalies! Even the 3 year rolling averages that included the 2006 and 2010 seasons continued the downward trend. Jack took over a great program and killed it! It was past time for him to go!

We were never going to win a CWS with Jack. He had the wrong personality and coaching style. The 2006 and 2010 teams were 1 win away from the championship game, but went 0-4 against South Carolina. They totally fell apart. Khalil Greene had more errors in one game than the entire season. Jack was wound way too tight and teams need to play loose to win championships. In retrospect that was the beginning of Greene's issues. Other players choked as well and had a bunch of mental errors, fielding and running the bases.

Monte has been a HUGE disappointment, but it doesn't change the fact that Jack needed to go.

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Re: If track record meant anything then Coach Lee wouldn't have


May 29, 2021, 3:46 PM

Your post begins with a glaring and easy to confirm factual inaccuracy.

Jack's best 3 seasons (indicated by final ranking) were...

1. 2002 (9th season) Final rank 3
2. 1996 (3rd season) Final rank 4
3. 2010 (17th season) Final rank 4
4. 2006 (13th season) Final rank 5
5. 2000 (7th season) Final rank 5

You should update your work from back in the day.

Your entire reasoning is based on an error. All of it. From the beginning..... to the end.

Your last paragraph is a bunch of arbitrary assumptions and conjecture. Probably influenced by your erroneous understanding of the facts.

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Re: If track record meant anything then Coach Lee wouldn't have


May 29, 2021, 3:46 PM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Clemson_Tigers_baseball_seasons

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Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 28, 2021, 11:46 AM

Hard to believe they will bring him back. Not surprised though. Dabo is looking to have another good team this year

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Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 28, 2021, 12:00 PM

Lee mentions two (2) top 10 recruiting classes, but other teams (and coaches) are winning with far less??? Lee mentioning the talent that he has brought in only re-enforces the need to fire him, because he can't win (or coach) with this talent.

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Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 28, 2021, 12:26 PM

Do you realize the classes he is referring to are the '20 and '21 classes.

One of them was just true freshmen and the other is just about to graduate from high school.

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Perfect Game has the 2020 class at 20. The 2021 class


May 28, 2021, 3:03 PM

will fall off a cliff if Joe Mack and the football recruits go MLB.

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Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 28, 2021, 10:40 PM [ in reply to Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee ]

Yes. Where does that class ranking end up if out two QBs both never step foot on the baseball field?

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Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 28, 2021, 12:12 PM [ in reply to Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee ]

You don't turn your back on a top 10 class coming in, remember the dandy dozen. Firing a coach that has a great recruiting class coming in is bad for the program, and it could be 10 times worse than keeping the coach for another year!!!

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Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 28, 2021, 1:51 PM

AO52 and others, love you my friend but the facts quoted on top 10 classes are wrong. You have to use the class rankings after the draft.

Here is a good example of that "top 10" 2020 class. It ended up just missing a top 25. Here is the after draft rank of 2020 for the ACC. 5 teams were in top 25 and we were not one of them.

I've had my say and got pounced on because it's not the popular stance. Just thank the Lord that DRad wasn't around in 2008. We'd still be playing Bowden bowls. As long as a coach at Clemson strokes Dan's ego, you're fine. Don't, like the volleyball coach who only got 4 yrs. Voiced her opine and like Jack, get tossed. DRad speaks with forked tongue.

Anyway, here's the article.
https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/acc-2020-college-baseball-recruiting-breakdown/?amphtml

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Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 28, 2021, 1:57 PM

Oh, and TD til your hearts content. I try to give a TU even to opinion I disagree. Everyone has an opinion. Doesn't make them a hater or coot. Even our new recruiting guru Paw has a TD fairy. How could anyone TD his or her posts.

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Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 28, 2021, 2:55 PM

I've never TDed a post of yours, and I'm not starting now. Any time my T-Net friends make a statement that I don't necessarily agree with, I move on to your next post. I'm even fair with the netters that I don't call my friend. A visitor I will TD the heck out of any negative post they may post, and smile big when I TD them. The resident visitors, I'm fair with them also, I don't TD them as quick, and will TU them on occasion when they're being nice to Tiger fans, and being fair about our with our Tiger teams!!!

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Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 28, 2021, 5:08 PM

That TD comment wasn't aimed at you brother. It was aimed in general and it seems I could say the sky is blue and get TD'd. Guess I got a fairy. Not you. Sorry for inferring if I did.

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Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 28, 2021, 1:59 PM [ in reply to Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee ]

Honest question, because I haven't looked, but how many different sites rank baseball recruiting classes?

Coach Lee claimed a top 10 class, which you are saying doesn't count because it was ranked in that position before the draft and those players never made it to campus.

Did baseball American have Clemson in the top 10 and dropped them all the way out of the top 25 after the draft or is Coach Lee referencing a different recruiting site that thought more highly of that class?

For example, Clemson football sometimes claims a #1 ranked recruiting class from a couple of years ago but it was only ranked #1 by one of the 3 major sites that rank classes.

Is it possible that Coach Lee is choosing the most optimistic ranking to look at and you are choosing the most pessimistic ranking to look at and the truth falls somewhere in between?

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Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 28, 2021, 5:06 PM

Yes, multiple sites rank. 247 claims to rank a composite but every time I check their site the material is null. I usually just look at d1 and baseball America. Nolan has one but that's paid and if not mistaken, associated with D1 somehow. Most content (in depth) is subscription. And yes, I do believe that at one point in 2019 start of season the 20 class was close to top 10. Maybe 9th, maybe 12th, I can't find the old article, still looking.

But no TigersO, I always upvote and respect your knowledge, always well thought out material. I'm sure they picked the most positive... I would. But my point was whether or not mine was the worst, BA is well respected and the rankings would not be that far apart.

You know better than I, stats can be made to justify just about anything you want. But not being nitpicky, over monte's tenure at least 5 on average, acc schools have out recruited us. Giving him a pass on the first 2 classes since baseball lags behind and new coach etc etc, the level dropped understandably. But since, he's been very pedestrian vs ACC teams in recruiting.

We all know the SEC is kicking everyone. So where we aspire to be, Monte, imho is not cutting it. Listen to every post season wrap, it's one excuse after another and he promises to get it right. 6 yrs later we're at the lowest we've been in 64 years. That coach didn't get a pass and imho, Monte shouldn't either.

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Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 28, 2021, 5:12 PM [ in reply to Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee ]

I’ll try and field it since no one else has. D1baseball, Perfect Game, and Baseball America all do some form of recruiting rankings. Perfect Game makes their rankings readily available and easily sorted by year. Baseball America and D1Baseball paywall some or all of their rankings. Baseball rankings can be pretty weird too. The 2015 class Monte Lee inherited was ranked 24th but Seth Beer was unranked and I can’t remember why and everyone knew he was the best player in that group. So obviously that ranking is lower than it should have been. Recruiting hasn’t really been the problem. Lee’s last 4 classes average 17th. As high as 10th (this year’s seniors) and no lower than 20th. In theory this should have been the end of a cycle - ending on an up note. The next year’s teams, if they can hold up to the draft, should be the nucleus of another cycle. Which is why simply shrugging shoulders and offering platitudes towards the team doesn’t work. He had his best recruiting class as seniors this year surrounded by 3 straight top 20 classes to fill needs and push the starters. If you have a losing record with that you simply are not going to be successful. Having 4 straight top 20 classes should have easily been hosting a regional. Only 8 teams in the country, including Clemson, had Top 20 recruiting classes the last 4 years. We really should have been a national seed. If you look at the trajectory of Clemson football it has been tied directly to that rolling recruiting average. Last season is hard to quantify but 2018 and 2020 have an increasingly inverse relationship to the player rankings. That is a very damning sign for the coaching staff and one not easily explained away by covid, academic common market, or any other bugaboos.

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Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 28, 2021, 5:53 PM

Actually, in football we have over achieved based on recruiting. We won 2 championships with a 4 year average recruiting ranking of 9th. Everyone else that has won the championship in both the playoff era and the BCS era had a 4 year average recruiting ranking in the top 5. We didn't start having top 5 classes until the past 2 years.

We get out recruited by Bama, Georgia, and Ohio State pretty much every year AND they are using the transfer portal.

Our staff does a great job of evaluating and developing. We have also benefitted greatly from our culture and staff stability. Thus, guys like Christian Wilkins, ETN, and others returned for their senior season. Other programs loose those guys to the NFL.

Interestingly, when 24/7 and other recruiting services do their rolling 4 year recruiting ranking updates, which is a retrospective re-ranking of classes based on actually performance on the field, our classes have out performed and almost always move up in the rankings. This speaks volumes about our ability to evaluate and develop players.

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Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 28, 2021, 6:18 PM

You’re doing the simple average of 9th - and I agree that we overachieve, especially compared to Alabama. But if you reindex the teams based on the 4 year average we busted into the top 4. Prior to our 2nd appearance in the CFP, ESPN showed the numbers at that time all the way back through the BCS era into the CFP. Auburn was the only team to have played for a National Championship that wasn’t in the top 4 by that measure. I don’t know if it still holds but probably not many exceptions.

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Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 29, 2021, 6:16 AM [ in reply to Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee ]

I think that most would consider the football team overachievers but their rankings get distorted. Most people look at what the class is ranked rather than the average star ranking of the recruits. Clemson doesn't have the turnover, so we are always fighting an uphill battle comparing totals since we have less recruits to do it with.

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Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 29, 2021, 8:02 AM [ in reply to Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee ]

While I agree with you on most points and Monte should have won more games and fielded better results in regionals, your perfect game class rank is wrong. The stuff from perfect game that's free is pre draft, pre enrollment rankings.

Not by any service has Monte had a top 10 class that made it to the field. Seth, for whatever reason doesn't show on PG, but he was highly ranked on the other sites and through HS prep. So before you accuse me that my post didn't properly address TigersO post concerning class rank, please double check your facts and see how many made it here.

Now, he has had some top talent coming out of HS (top 100 rated players composite by all services) but for whatever reason that talent didn't develop during college. However, after college, some have started to develop in the minors.

But one thing we can agree on is the fact Monte isn't getting it done. We need a coach who can develop the talent we can get to overachieve.

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Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 29, 2021, 8:30 AM

None of the was pointed at you - you are one of the most reasonable people on here. We basically posted simultaneously. PG is just all I really have access to. Anything else for covering the last 5 years or more is pay walled as far as I know. Yes, I agree the draft distorts the final standings but would be willing to bet that the basic premise - that Lee has gotten talent well above a losing record and being outside the tourney - still holds. It’s all relative. Most programs lose players to the draft too. Except Vanderbilt. We all know Corbin bathes in the blood of children and made a pact with the devil. That’s what Tigernet has taught me.

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142, 161, 294, 307, 293, 166, 225, 180, 260, 164, 141, 72, 68 - assist rankings amongst all D1 programs during Brownell's tenure


1 more year…***


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Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 28, 2021, 12:19 PM

Sounds like both of them are clueless and nothing will change next season……not good for the future of our baseball program…..Go Tigers!!!!

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May 28, 2021, 12:35 PM

You would think if Monte has all this experience and success, he would have done something early in the season to turn things around. I sincerely hope the players and recruits have not lost as much confidence in him as the fans have. If he is retained, I wish him all the best in turning things around next year. Something will have to change drastically if we are going to out play and out coach other teams.

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Brad Brownell has not been fired


May 28, 2021, 2:39 PM

That should tell you everything you need to know about Monte’s job status.

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Re: Brad Brownell has not been fired


May 28, 2021, 5:37 PM

To informed fans, that makes no sense.

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Re: Brad Brownell has not been fired


May 28, 2021, 8:29 PM [ in reply to Brad Brownell has not been fired ]

One finished 5th and went to post season. One had the first losing season since the 57 chevy and didnt. How you compare those as similar is just a sad commentary on YOU and bozos like you.

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Congratulations, you had the worst post on TigerNet today.


May 28, 2021, 11:26 PM [ in reply to Brad Brownell has not been fired ]

And that’s really saying something!

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Re: Congratulations, you had the worst post on TigerNet today.


May 28, 2021, 11:45 PM



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Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 28, 2021, 4:13 PM

David Miller, come on down!

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May 28, 2021, 5:01 PM

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I hate when I leave some thoughts on the table. .


May 29, 2021, 1:46 PM

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Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 28, 2021, 6:03 PM

As I said in another post in another article about Coach Lee, if the AD thinks Brownell's performance warrants retaining him, how could he fire Lee? His standards are dragging our entire athletic department down. Other than in football and women's softball and perhaps men's soccer, where are CU sports excelling? Did I miss it? Please correct me if I'm missing something.

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Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 28, 2021, 8:30 PM

see above

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Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 28, 2021, 9:46 PM

So I guess you are calling me a Bozo because Brownell got us into the NCAA tourney where we lost in the first round, just as we did in the first round of the ACC tournament. If you can't see the trend in how these two programs are going, as well as others for that matter, maybe someone else is the bozo. And how long has it taken Brownell to take us there, and how often has it happened? Finally, how do you feel about the chance of that happening again next year. Is that what we want for all of our athletic programs? I expect this would be a totally different discussion if the football program was where it was under, say Ken Hatfield or Tommy West.
Have a good weekend.

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Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 28, 2021, 11:10 PM

The relative status and pedigree of each program is completely different. Premier baseball program. Average hoops program.

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Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 29, 2021, 1:45 PM

Very true . . it would be like our FB team going 5 -6

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Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 29, 2021, 8:49 PM

Even more it would be like Dabo’s eventual replacement getting worse every year until going 5-6 but the AD retaining that coach for a sixth year because he has a good recruiting class coming in that is, upon examination, basically in line with every recruiting class he has had.

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Brownell @Clemson: 8 seasons ranked 50th or worse by Sports Reference’s SRS
1-29: Brad Brownell road record against ranked ACC opponents
142, 161, 294, 307, 293, 166, 225, 180, 260, 164, 141, 72, 68 - assist rankings amongst all D1 programs during Brownell's tenure


Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 29, 2021, 8:53 AM [ in reply to Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee ]

Bingo! DRad is surviving through the Golden Parachute of Dabo Sweeney. One more year translates to “wait til next year” which is synonymous for “We are losers”.

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Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 28, 2021, 10:27 PM

haha suck it dumpers. go tigers

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Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 28, 2021, 10:55 PM

I been trying to help them not have their hopes crushed. Here and earlier this year on the hardcourt. DRad has a track record of not having a knee jerking reaction over a down season, following that level-headedness he sets down and looks for accountability and the will to change, like Swiss clockwork each and every time. Monte did not even have to set down with DRad before he was already answering things in line with what DRad expects. It was obvious before even that who our baseball coach would be in 2022.

Oh well, guess they will have to pull against both programs next year. Ha

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Does Lee need to go??!??


May 29, 2021, 5:23 AM

I would usually say no because Baseball is a game of up and down seasons year to year. Think of how many pro teams win the whole shabang and then the next year look like the island of misfit toys. Monte Lee hasn’t lived up to the hype, he either produces a team that wins a ton in regular season and falls apart at the end when it matters most. Clemson went through the same thing in football for many years and couldn’t get the “big game” wins they needed. Hell we even got our own word for it. Not saying it because the football team has shaken that term and moved on to the top of the mountain and standard of football. During those down years everyone called for Dabo head including me, but now the man is one of the best to ever do it. Lee had a bad year, this is true but the transfer portal has killed college sports and with attrition will come failure. I say give him next year and if it’s another failure, kick rocks. This season was painful to watch and I actually watched the softball more than baseball but that was bc the passion the young women showed on the field, this team for Lee had no fight and no emotion. No emotion means no momentum, no momentum means you in for a long season. Give him one more year and see if he can turn around this talent.

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Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 29, 2021, 11:06 AM

I hope Monte can turn it around next year with the top 10 class but I thought he had a top 10 this year. I think there is something lacking in the coaching and maybe time to change batting coach.

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Re: TNET: Clemson AD addresses baseball's future outlook with Monte Lee


May 30, 2021, 4:54 PM

Who was Jack's pitching coach ?? If DRad fires Monte Lee , who would u suggest for Clemson to get as their new coach , Corbin won't come , O'Sullivan won't come , so WHO will come if DRad fires Lee after six season ??
Answer the question , who will CLemson get as a coach , and please don't say BL , if u fire Lee , fire the who staff ,
Thank u for your answers ,

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