Arizona athletic director Greg Byrne began his off-site search for a baseball coach Friday at the NCAA regional in Lake Elsinore, California, where USC’s Dan Hubbs and UC Santa Barbara’s Andrew Checketts might’ve been Byrne’s targets.
Maybe he crossed them off his list. Maybe they weren’t on his list.
To succeed in the brutally difficult Pac-12, Arizona must find someone who can swim with the sharks. Byrne must hire someone who is a shark, someone who doesn’t play nice.
Arizona has hosted one NCAA baseball regional in 25 years. That’s absurd.