Grewe headed to Louisiana State
MSU baseball coach David Grewe resigned from MSU Thursday and accepted an associate head coaching position with Louisiana State, according to MSU sports information.
I am grateful for Coach Grewe’s leadership and tireless energy over the last three years,” MSU Athletics Director Mark Hollis said in a press release. “He provided a foundation on which we will continue to
build. The program is in excellent shape and with the stadium project underway, the best is yet to come for Spartan Baseball.”
At LSU, Grewe will be reunited with Tigers’ head coach Paul Manieri who he worked for as an assistant coach with Notre Dame before agreeing to become MSU’s head coach.
The Spartans were 75-85 overall and 42-53 in the Big Ten under Grewe’s three-year tenure. Each year, he failed to lead MSU to the conference tournament.
Assistant coach Tony Baldwin will fill in as the interim head coach until a new head coach is found.
Published on Thursday, June 26, 2008
Comments
CHRIS
06/26/08 @ 10:17pm
See ya later….
Zach
06/27/08 @ 10:37am
Wow! This is kind of a shock. Good luck in the bayou, now can we please bring in an established head coach? The State baseball program is heading upwards and deservers someone more well-rounded than a catching coach.
baseball
06/28/08 @ 1:16am
Established coach? Grewe was one of the top rated young coaches in America by various outlets…hence him going to LSU, a powerhouse, as the associate assistant coach. He also had the MSU baseball team in contention for the Big Ten playoffs on the last weekend of every season he coached, plus he had two straight top-ranked Big Ten recruiting classes. Someday he’s going to coach a top-notch college program or a minor league ballclub and you’ll be left wondering, “What if he’d stayed at MSU?” Get your facts straight before you bash one of the premier young baseball coaches in America.
SpartanFan
06/28/08 @ 4:04am
The mistake was made 3 years ago when they hired Grewe has the head coach.. there were much better candidates being considered. And now here we are only a few years later in search of a coach again. Maybe this time they’ll pick someone that can produce a winning team.
Terry
06/28/08 @ 2:23pm
Former University of Tennessee head baseball coach Rod Delmonico has formally submitted his interest in the head baseball coach position at Michigan State. Coach Delmonico led the Volunteers to 3
College World Series appearances in 12 years (1995, 2001 and 2006).
He is currently an assistant coach at Florida State where he coached before coming to Tennessee. He led Tennessee to Omaha within 5 years of taking the job where Tennessee had not been to the CWS since 1951.
Tennessee plays 1/3+ of its season in winter weather. Even with that, he was successful in recruiting locally and across the nation. Coach Delmonico was the head coach at Tennessee from 1990-2007, compiling a 699-396 record during his tenure. He is the school’s all-time winningest coach. He also led Tennessee to 8 NCAA regional appearances and 3 Southeastern Conference titles. He posted nine 40-win seasons, two 50-win seasons, and averaged 39.7 wins a year
from 1993 through the end of his tenure. He has never had an NCAA violation and in his last year at UT, he developed 3 first round draft picks. With the success that the University of Michigan has had in past couple of years, Coach D would be able to take Michigan State to Omaha.
Jake
06/30/08 @ 2:29pm
“The program is in excellent shape..”? Oh really? Thats why they’ve had a losing season every year he’s been here. He didn’t do the job he was brought in to do. My guess would be that the university told Grewe that he didnt have a whole lot of time left at MSU if he had any at all. Seems kinda fishy that a HEAD coach at a Big Ten school would go back to being an assistant somewhere else. I mean MSU might not be known for its baseball program..but lets be honest, Manieri is definitely doing Grewe a favor. He was out of here either way.