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Ohio State Hires Campbell’s Justin Haire As New Baseball Coach

Ohio State hires Justin Haire, who won 317 games and five Big South championships over the past 10 years at Campbell, as its new baseball coach.
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Justin Haire from Campbell was hired
Hamilton, OH native
Last 10 years was as HC, seems to have been quite productive with conference titles from 2018-2023 and 4 conference COY honors
 
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JCOSU86 said:
So, there's this
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'There's no right way to do it': Why Bill Mosiello resigned as Ohio State baseball coach

Here's why Bill Mosiello had to make the move from Ohio State back to TCU.
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Just one question: Why the fuck not move your family to Columbus? I mean, I've been to the Metroplex. It sure as FUCK ain't all that. Massive, hot, expensive. JFC.
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It's a shithole. I'm sure the Texas egomaniacs will need to get their fainting sofas upon hearing that. Aside from the heat and the sprawl, it's probably the only major city in America that has no top tier cultural, medical or educational institutions.

With regards to Mosiello's leaving, I wonder if his real reason was that he got up here and simply realized that he could never compete on a national level at a cold weather school and decided that biding his time as the top TCU assistant and waiting for a warm weather job to open up was the smart career move. We'll see how the guy we just hired from the Campbell Camels does, I guess.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
It's a shithole. I'm sure the Texas egomaniacs will need to get their fainting sofas upon hearing that. Aside from the heat and the sprawl, it's probably the only major city in America that has no top tier cultural, medical or educational institutions.

With regards to Mosiello's leaving, I wonder if his real reason was that he got up here and simply realized that he could never compete on a national level at a cold weather school and decided that biding his time as the top TCU assistant and waiting for a warm weather job to open up was the smart career move. We'll see how the guy we just hired from the Campbell Camels does, I guess.
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I like the new hire!
 
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bigdog3300 said:
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Ohio State Hires Campbell’s Justin Haire As New Baseball Coach

Ohio State hires Justin Haire, who won 317 games and five Big South championships over the past 10 years at Campbell, as its new baseball coach.
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Justin Haire from Campbell was hired
Hamilton, OH native
Last 10 years was as HC, seems to have been quite productive with conference titles from 2018-2023 and 4 conference COY honors
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Yeah, this does seem to be a very good hire:

A native of Hamilton, Ohio, Haire returns to the Buckeye State after 17 years at Campbell, including 10 seasons as the Camels’ head coach. Over the last decade, Haire led the Camels to a 317-212 record. He led the Camels to five consecutive Big South titles from 2018-23 and was named the Big South Coach of the Year after four of those seasons.

"I am incredibly honored and excited to be named the head baseball coach at The Ohio State University," Haire said in a statement. "As an Ohio native, this opportunity is especially meaningful to me. We look forward to building a championship-level program at Ohio State, where the commitment to excellence in both athletics and academics is unparalleled. The passion and pride of Buckeye Nation is unmatched and we are eager to contribute to the success and growth of Ohio State baseball."

Campbell Fighting Camels baseball - Wikipedia

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Fighting Camels in the NCAA tournament​

The Fighting Camels have made seven NCAA tournament appearances. The Camels received their first ever at-large bid in the 2021 campaign, being the first Campbell University athletics team to do so.
Season Regional Record Results
1990 Palo Alto 0–2 (.000) Eliminated by Southern Illinois
2014 Columbia 1–2 (.333) Eliminated by South Carolina
2018 Athens 0–2 (.000) Eliminated by Duke
2019 Greenville 2–2 (.500) Eliminated by East Carolina
2021 Starkville 2–2 (.500) Eliminated by Mississippi St
2022 Knoxville 1–2 (.333) Eliminated by Georgia Tech
2023 Columbia 2–2 (.500) Eliminated by South Carolina
Tournament Record: 8–14 (.364) Total NCAA tournament Appearances: 7
 
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I think he's a good hire. I just don't plan on having the unrealistic expectation that he's going to have us competing at a national level. It's just not the disadvantage of being a cold weather school. It's the disadvantage of recruiting in a cold weather state. I'll bet that Vegas produces more D1 talent than the Three C's combined.

Take a look at this year's softball and baseball tournaments. Softball: not a single cold weather school made the Super Regionals. Baseball: Only 3 cold weather schools made the Super Regionals and none advanced to Omaha. There's a reason why the last cold weather national championship was ours in 1966.

Compete for B1G titles (though I don't know how realistic that'll be with the PAC schools coming in), make the NCAA on a respectable basis and maybe roll our way into a Super Regional once a decade. That's the ceiling for the program.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
I think he's a good hire. I just don't plan on having the unrealistic expectation that he's going to have us competing at a national level. It's just not the disadvantage of being a cold weather school. It's the disadvantage of recruiting in a cold weather state. I'll bet that Vegas produces more D1 talent than the Three C's combined.

Take a look at this year's softball and baseball tournaments. Softball: not a single cold weather school made the Super Regionals. Baseball: Only 3 cold weather schools made the Super Regionals and none advanced to Omaha. There's a reason why the last cold weather national championship was ours in 1966.

Compete for B1G titles (though I don't know how realistic that'll be with the PAC schools coming in), make the NCAA on a respectable basis and maybe roll our way into a Super Regional once a decade. That's the ceiling for the program.
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Yep, anyone who expects Ohio State Baseball to consistently produce high national level results is completely delusional.

We should at least be able to be competitive yearly in the B1G though and make the NCAA tournament more than like once or twice a decade.

I wonder how the move to the B1G is going to effect the PAC schools in baseball. They might get taken down a peg in recruiting.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
I think he's a good hire. I just don't plan on having the unrealistic expectation that he's going to have us competing at a national level. It's just not the disadvantage of being a cold weather school. It's the disadvantage of recruiting in a cold weather state. I'll bet that Vegas produces more D1 talent than the Three C's combined.

Take a look at this year's softball and baseball tournaments. Softball: not a single cold weather school made the Super Regionals. Baseball: Only 3 cold weather schools made the Super Regionals and none advanced to Omaha. There's a reason why the last cold weather national championship was ours in 1966.

Compete for B1G titles (though I don't know how realistic that'll be with the PAC schools coming in), make the NCAA on a respectable basis and maybe roll our way into a Super Regional once a decade. That's the ceiling for the program.
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You are not including Oregon St.?
 
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Thump said:
You are not including Oregon St.?
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Corvallis, Oregon is nowhere near as much of a disadvantage as Columbus, Ann Arbor or Madison. It's rainy in March, but it doesn't snow. Average March temps in March are 58/40. They're playing home games at the beginning of the season. B1G teams are on the Southern chitlin circuit pretty much for the first dozen games of the year. TCUN had the biggest cheating scandal in NCAA baseball history, and they still couldn't win a title.
 
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Skull Session: Zion Grady’s Commitment Kicks Off the Week in Buckeye Nation, Tavien St. Clair is the Real Deal and Justin Haire Calls Ohio State Baseball “A Sleeping Giant”

Zion Grady's commitment kicks off the week in Buckeye Nation, Tavien St. Clair is the real deal and Justin Haire calls Ohio State baseball "a sleeping giant."
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A NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN. Last week, Ohio State baseball hired Justin Haire to be its next head coach. The Hamilton, Ohio, native and Bowling Green graduate had been a head coach at Campbell for the previous 10 seasons, winning 317 games, five Big South regular season championships and four Big South Tournament titles.

“We are so excited to welcome Justin Haire and his family to Ohio State to lead our baseball program into a new era,” incoming athletic director Ross Bjork said in a statement. “Coach Haire’s successful career as a head coach and track record of winning games in the NCAA Tournament made us stand up and take notice, and his deep Ohio roots are an added bonus. We believe Ohio State baseball can be a Big Ten contender and make deep runs in the NCAA Tournament under Justin’s leadership, and we are fired up for him to start here in Columbus.”

While Bjork’s statement illustrated his aspirations for the Ohio State program under Haire’s guidance, the new head coach did not mention his desires for the Buckeyes in a press release. Rather, Haire said he was “eager to contribute to the success and growth of Ohio State baseball.”

Still, in a recent interview with Colin Gay of The Columbus Dispatch, Haire revealed some of his goals for the program and school he’s loved since childhood.

In the interview process, Haire said incoming Ohio State athletic director Ross Bjork made it clear he wanted a coach who is “excited about the program how it is, and has a vision of how we can grow it organically and sustainably.”

Haire said Bjork did not sugarcoat the baseball program’s standing compared to past programs the athletic director has been a part of.

“A big piece of knowing who you are is knowing who you’re not,” Haire said. “Mr. Bjork’s been at Texas A&M and Ole Miss. He’s been in some of those SEC places. And he was just very honest, like, ‘Hey, we’re wanting to compete and be at that highest level. But the resources are not that. The NIL capability for baseball is not the same as it is at some of those SEC places.’ ”

Bjork is already beginning to make his mark on Ohio State athletics.

While his tenure as athletic director officially begins July 1, Bjork has already been instrumental in the hiring of Jake Diebler to lead the Ohio State men’s basketball program, Miami University’s Kirin Kumar as OSU’s new softball coach and Haire. And while Haire said that reality brings pressure, “it’s a good pressure.”

“Of all the people that were interested in this job, that understand that Ohio State baseball is a sleeping giant and ready to, hopefully, turn the corner, (Bjork) gave me this opportunity,” Haire said. “And he believes in me and what will eventually be our staff, and the vision that we have. Because I think he has a vision for what he thinks it might look like too.”
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