Pat Haden’s Best Hire: USC Baseball Coach Dan Hubbs

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I’ve already detailed the easy schedule but USC baseball is still 8-0, which is the Trojans’ best start since 1988. And here’s something to ponder today: Is USC baseball coach Dan Hubbs the best hire made by athletic director Pat Haden?

If I had to grade Haden’s tenure, I’d say his best move came immediately after he got the job when he fired baseball coach Chad Kreuter. Five years later, Hubbs (in his third season) has rebuilt the program. Granted, compared to Andy Enfield, Hubbs looks like Vince Lombardi.

But Haden’s hired other coaches too. And Hubbs compares favorably to any of them, especially when he had so much work to do with a program that gets less than 12 scholarships.

18 thoughts on “Pat Haden’s Best Hire: USC Baseball Coach Dan Hubbs”

  1. Cynthia has already won a conference championship. She’s the best hire. Hubbs hasn’t been a disaster but let him beat somebody in a game that means something before declaring him a good hire.

    • Exactly, right on both counts. When Hubbs gets us to the CWS tourney, and wins a game I’ll be ecstatic. But winning the early gimme wins before P12 play is supposed to happen.

      Cynthia has done an outstanding job. I can’t believe Wolf missed that!

  2. Didn’t you spend a lot of time criticizing the firing of Chad Krueter? It must be nice to take both sides of arguments.

  3. Lets deal with men’s sports here, women’s sports are a joke.

    Sark: time will tell but he’s got FAIL written all over him and his horrible staff

    Enfield: He’s got one more year to prove he wasn’t a FAIL
    Track coach, whoever she is. FAIL. You don’t hire a women from Eastern Florida Tech to run the MEN’S track team.

    Hubbs will go down as his best hire. Yes, he hasn’t beaten anyone of stature yet ( CSF is apparently down this year ) but old Chad could still be there running it further into the ground, if possible.

    Haden is a political correct NCAA fanny kissing liberal, would yo expect him to get any hire right ? He’s more interested in skin color & gender than credentials.

  4. I love the 8-0 start. Still the fact is we haven’t played against a team to legitimize our play. So far it looks promising.

    • O’Neil wasn’t a Floyd in terms of recruiting but with sanctions O’Neil lost a couple of classes, and he had to bridge the sanctions debacle with a very short handed team.
      We would LOVE to have a 2011’s 19 wins and NCAA tourney appearance at this point, or the 4th place spot and the conference tourney semifinals. Enfield couldn’t shine O’Neil’s shoes.

      Problem with O’Neill was that he was 100% about defense, no offense… And he had an issue bending his elbow too much.

      Everyone knows that with college basketball today, with the one-and-done rule, if you get two years as a coach and you completely suck you’re likely not improving. If Enfield had some Floyd type of class coming in, and was just mediocre now, it might be different. But Enfield is just clearly in over his head.

  5. Quite right, his “best”.
    Not great, but compared to most of his hires, his best.
    Some day Hubbs will be known as the Bob Boyd of LA baseball.

  6. Earth to Scott – all NCAA baseball programs are limited to 12 scholarships. It’s the pact MLB ‘sub rosa’ worked for back-in-the-day as national powerhouses, like USC, would offer numerous scholarships to players and then warehouse them.

    Hubbs is moving up and I also echo the Go Tama per Enfield – the pressure will definitely be on Enfield next Fall. Sark has the horses now he has to prove he is the teamster to cross that Great Divide.

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