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Don’t knock the hire just yet; his resume’s pretty good. I will have to admit: my first impression of the news of Mark Kingston’s hiring was “meh”. I thought that Ray Tanner would go with a much more “accomplished” name, certainly a Kevin O’Sullivan at Florida (before he won the College World Series), Josh Holliday at Oklahoma State or possibly Dan McDonnell at Louisville. So, no, Mark Kingston isn’t a sexy hire. And I hadn’t heard much about him before he became the frontrunner for the South Carolina job. After doing a little digging on Kingston, maybe it’s not that bad a hire. From 2002-2008, he was on Tulane’s staff, where his recruiting helped the eventual CWS-bound Green Wave end up as the #1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament in 2005. Before that, he was at Miami, and I don’t need to tell you too much about the stature of that program. Stops at Purdue and a initial one-year stint at Illinois State came prior to that. Kingston returned to Illinois State, first as associate head coach, before being bumped to head coach in 2010. He was able to lead the Redbirds to regionals for the first time since 1994 in his first year. Yes, that was the only time they went when he was there, but for a program that averaged 22.6 wins in the five years before he arrived and averaged 34 in his five years as coach (thanks to some strong in-state recruiting), he had a pretty blank canvas to paint on to start with. Going up against Wichita Stat ...
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