This f-wad needs to be fired ASAP -- but we know that's never going to happen. I don't think I have ever seen a coach go on record so directly about how every other team in his conference is a better place for a recruit to go. That alone should be cause for termination.
Which coat of paint is this for him?
Kelly would be rightly torched for as long as he was still at ND...actually, probably longer.
This is embarrassing.
Jack, this should actually make you grow a pair and fire him. This is grounds for dismissal.
It's not false to say they hardly put resources into baseball at all; the facility is 25 yrs old and sterile and not inviting to anyone interested in watching even modestly competitive baseball; that being said, firing Aoki would need to be part of a comprehensive upgrade
He has no skin in the game. He obviously doesn't have to care about baseball. His last public comment on the f***** program is from 2 years ago, and this is after they were absolutely humiliated at the dismal end to a dismal season in 2018. He said NOTHING.
This is the worst of it in my opinion....especially since he lost to all 3 Michigan directional schools. ACC?? How about competing in the MAC, you excuse-machine:
“It’s a daunting conference, for sure,” said Aoki, who had to make the same jump at his previous stop, Boston College. “I think it’s always a challenge here, right? Notre Dame had a really unique niche in the Big East.”
Recruiting was easier in the Big East, he suggested, when Notre Dame was the most academically oriented school that still “placed a pretty strong emphasis” on baseball. Outspending their ACC baseball brethren is nearly impossible, and the number of strong academic schools that remain committed to baseball is much higher in this conference.
Or manieri
Holy shit. Try reading that with a straight face.