Source: collegebaseballcentral.com --- Friday, December 01, 2017
When Cincinnati head coach Ty Neal stepped down at the end of the 2017 season, the UC administration didn’t have to look far to find his replacement. Sitting right there just a few miles away was Xavier’s Scott Googins, a head coach who helped the Musketeers accomplish some incredible things in his tenure, particularly since the team’s move into the Big East prior to the 2014 season. He jumped out as the right candidate from the very beginning of the search and Cincinnati got its man. In 12 years, Googins took Xavier to four regionals, including in three of the last four seasons. In the last two years, in fact, he guided the Musketeers to regional finals. He also leaves as the winningest head coach in program history. There are a lot of reasons that perhaps he shouldn’t have had that level of success with the program. Xavier isn’t a historical powerhouse. The Big East (and the Atlantic 10 before that) isn’t a marquee conference. They play in modest facilities. They compete for talent not only with Ohio State and Cincinnati, but also with mid-major powers Wright State and Kent State. And yet, he had a lot of success. While the American Athletic Conference will step up the competition level, Googins won’t have to worry about many of those roadblocks in his new gig. The American is a league that annually puts a handful of teams into regionals, and it’s probably the best Baseball conference outside of the traditional power conferenc ...
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