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Paul Mainieri: 'I just underestimated the strength of the conference’
Posted on 4/29/25 at 3:12 pm
Posted on 4/29/25 at 3:12 pm
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Good thing Ray Tanner hired this geriatric and gave him a massive buyout for no reason
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Paul Mainieri made it clear from the moment he became South Carolina’s head coach last summer. Given that he was about to turn 67 years old, he didn’t have a long-term plan to get the Gamecocks back to their winning ways. He was coming in with a one-year plan to turn things around.
“I don’t see why we can’t compete for everything right out of the gate,” Mainieri said at his introductory press conference last June. “I didn’t come here to lose. I didn’t come here to be mediocre. In my opinion, Carolina baseball represents excellence. I think we need to win now
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But while Mainieri came in with the right mindset, his first season on the job hasn’t gone the way he expected. With three weeks left to go in the regular season, South Carolina is on the outside looking in for the postseason with a 25-20 record.
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Being a part of the SEC for so many years at LSU, Mainieri knew how difficult the league was. At least he thought he did
. “I had just underestimated the strength of the conference and how much better the conference has gotten in the last couple of years,” he said. “The players are so much bigger and stronger and more experienced, older. We just have not been able to match up in some cases with them.”
Good thing Ray Tanner hired this geriatric and gave him a massive buyout for no reason
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Posted on 4/29/25 at 3:14 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
Sorry man, but they should’ve known the ride was over for Paul..
Posted on 4/29/25 at 3:15 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
LSU fans tried warning y'all.
Posted on 4/29/25 at 3:16 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
PM should've just enjoyed retirement or been a consultant to a coach somewhere.
Posted on 4/29/25 at 3:16 pm to Rtowntiger
Should have warned Ray Tanner instead
Posted on 4/29/25 at 3:17 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
Hand up, I had no idea he had been hired by South Carolina. Yikes.
Posted on 4/29/25 at 3:17 pm to LSUTigresFan
was 100% dumb all around from both parties.
Posted on 4/29/25 at 3:17 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
It was a strange hire from the jump
Posted on 4/29/25 at 3:18 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
What a fricking lame arse excuse.
Hey Paul, this isn't your first SEC rodeo
Hey Paul, this isn't your first SEC rodeo
Posted on 4/29/25 at 3:21 pm to Captain Crown
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Sorry man, but they should’ve known the ride was over for Paul..
Most fans wanted Elander...with some wanting Landon Powell (for no good reason other than he played here). Paul was not anyones first choice, but figured to be better than just hiring Monte Lee, or another Kingston.
That said, I am not sure that anyone could have turned it around here in 1 year, but Elander would have been fun as hell. Now he probably will go to an MSU and be wildly successful
Posted on 4/29/25 at 3:23 pm to GamecockUltimate
he blamed sloppy defense in last game against UK on the turf field
You've got to be kidding me
You've got to be kidding me
Posted on 4/29/25 at 3:23 pm to GamecockUltimate
In the NIL era USCe needs to spend money on talent like every SEC school.
Posted on 4/29/25 at 3:26 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
I feel for SC fans. Lazy hire by the AD.
Posted on 4/29/25 at 3:26 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
It's easy underestimate the conference when 10 of 16 teams are ranked and half of the league is in the top 15. 
Posted on 4/29/25 at 3:27 pm to GumboPot
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In the NIL era USCe needs to spend money on talent like every SEC school.
This…and Paul might actually have to leave his office to recruit
Posted on 4/29/25 at 3:30 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
I thought it was a bad hire as Maineri seemed way past his prime to me. But I also thought the same about Calipari and he seemed to do a pretty good job at Arkansas. What do I know?
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Posted on 4/29/25 at 3:34 pm to bigDgator
Recruiting is the big issue even with NIL
You still have to pound the pavement to do it and that was the biggest reason LSU started to slip
He delegated all recruiting to Nolan Cain while he and Alan Dunn refused to go out and do it themselves
You still have to pound the pavement to do it and that was the biggest reason LSU started to slip
He delegated all recruiting to Nolan Cain while he and Alan Dunn refused to go out and do it themselves
Posted on 4/29/25 at 3:38 pm to nicholastiger
Real question: how much recruiting do baseball coaches do on the road? I don't think it is at all like basketball and football.
Posted on 4/29/25 at 3:53 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
Ray Tanner is dumb as frick for hiring Paul Maineri. This would have been a good hire a decade ago 
Imagine not understanding Maineri wasn’t going to keep up with the younger coaches on the trail.
Carolina could have done way better than this.
Imagine not understanding Maineri wasn’t going to keep up with the younger coaches on the trail.
Carolina could have done way better than this.
Posted on 4/29/25 at 3:58 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
"thats just baseball" Paul
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