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BATON ROUGE – Ole Miss baseball coach Mike Bianco is in talks with LSU and has emerged as the top candidate to become the Tigers' new coach, sources close to the LSU baseball program told the Lafayette Daily Advertiser on Monday night.
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BATON ROUGE – Ole Miss baseball coach Mike Bianco is in talks with LSU and has emerged as the top candidate to become the Tigers' new coach, sources close to the LSU baseball program told the Lafayette Daily Advertiser on Monday night.
Honestly, this is the only way we'll be able to get rid of Bianco. I certainly appreciate everything that Bianco has done, but he has done all he can at Ole Miss. I just hope we are able to lure McDonnell to come to Oxford if Bianco bolts for LSU.
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Bianco can probably make it to Omaha down there. Lot more scholarships and a lot less people who care how he gets it done. But you have to wonder if the talent level will overcome some of his coaching moves - maybe - maybe not.
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Bianco can probably make it to Omaha down there. Lot more scholarships and a lot less people who care how he gets it done. But you have to wonder if the talent level will overcome some of his coaching moves - maybe - maybe not.
One thing I don't understand about College baseball is the scholarship counts. Why would LSU be able to offer more scholarships than Ole Miss?
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LSU in talks with Ole Miss' Mike Bianco, who has emerged as top baseball coach candidate
BATON ROUGE – Ole Miss baseball coach Mike Bianco is in talks with LSU and has emerged as the top candidate to become the Tigers' new coach, sources close to the LSU baseball program told the Lafayette Daily Advertiser on Monday night.
The sources asked not to be identified because LSU has not released details of the coaching search.
Ole Miss coach Mike Bianco is a candidate to replace Paul Mainieri as LSU's baseball coach. A former LSU player in 1988 and '89, Bianco was an assistant coach on LSU national championship teams in 1993, '96 and '97.
Bianco, 54, makes approximately $1.2 million a year and was given a four-year contract extension last June.
He just took Ole Miss to its seventh super regional since 2005 after becoming the Rebels ' coach in 2001. Bianco reached the College World Series in 2014 and was part of national championship teams at LSU in 1993, '96 and '97 as an assistant under coach Skip Bertman. He played with the Tigers as a catcher in 1988 and '89.
Bianco, who met his wife Camie of Baton Rouge while they were LSU students, turned down the LSU job after the 2006 season when Bertman was the athletics director. Bertman then hired Paul Mainieri from Notre Dame.
Bianco has been the favorite of former Bertman players to replace Mainieri, who announced his retirement on May 28 for health reasons before finishing the season in a super regional loss at Tennessee on Sunday.
The Biancos' son Drew is a junior outfielder/infielder with the Tigers.
LSU is also considering East Carolina coach Cliff Godwin, a former hitting coach at LSU in Mainieri's first two seasons at LSU in 2007 and '08, according to sources. Godwin, 43, was Bianco's hitting coach at Ole Miss from 2011-14 before going to East Carolina. Godwin just lost a best-of-three super regional at Vanderbilt over the weekend.
SOURCE: Guilbeau, Glenn."LSU in talks with Ole Miss' Mike Bianco, who has emerged as top baseball coach candidate." Lafayette Daily Advertiser, 15 June 2021,
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Here is an article from 2019 that gives an explanation of the TOPS program in Louisiana. Some talk about terminating the TOPS program due to lack of money - I'll believe it when I see it.
Bianco can probably make it to Omaha down there. Lot more scholarships and a lot less people who care how he gets it done. But you have to wonder if the talent level will overcome some of his coaching moves - maybe - maybe not.
One thing I don't understand about College baseball is the scholarship counts. Why would LSU be able to offer more scholarships than Ole Miss?