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New Ohio State Baseball Coach Justin Haire Believes Program Can Be a “Monster"
Justin Haire believes Ohio State's baseball program can be a "monster" and hopes to forge a unique program identity.
NEW OHIO STATE BASEBALL COACH JUSTIN HAIRE BELIEVES PROGRAM CAN BE A “MONSTER"
Still, Bjork and Haire also expressed dismay that some of the Buckeye State’s top high school prospects have signed elsewhere in recent years. That’s part of why reestablishing the program’s culture – he noted it’s the oldest athletic team at Ohio State, first organized in 1881 – is so important.
“We certainly want to do a good job in-state and make sure that the guys that maybe have gone elsewhere and are wanting to come back home, that we do a good job of finding the right ones and the right fits and try to build our program from that,” Haire said.
That said, recruiting players to Ohio State won’t be any different from recruiting players to Campbell, Haire noted. Family is a foundational element for Haire in his personal life and in his program building, so talent acquisition will all be based around relationships.
“I think the pitch is the same,” Haire said. “I mean, we are who we are. We're going to develop the heck out of our guys. We're going to love the heck out of our guys. And you know, the biggest thing about being at Ohio State is people answer your phone call and they call you back maybe a little bit more. But again, I think it's important to have the right people in the room.”
There are core tenets and principles one can find when it comes to building winning organizations. Countless books have been written on the subject.
But for Haire, it’s essential that Ohio State’s identity under his leadership is “unique.” It needs to stand alone in the way it functions, in the familial atmosphere he wants to establish, in its approach to recruiting.
“I think the biggest part for us is that we've got to know who we are, but we also have to know who we're not,” Haire said. “And we've got to figure out what our niche is from a recruiting standpoint, from a development standpoint, what that looks like with scheduling, what that looks like with how we travel, what that looks like with how we run practice or facility upgrades. We don't need to copy anyone else. We need to be the best version of who we are.”
“WE DON'T NEED TO COPY ANYONE ELSE. WE NEED TO BE THE BEST VERSION OF WHO WE ARE.”– JUSTIN HAIRE
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