News broke on Thursday that Mississippi State coach John Cohen had found former pitching coach Butch Thompson’s replacement in Dallas Baptist Pitching Coach Wes Johnson. College baseball analysts across the industry applauded the hire. Dallas Baptist was one of the best teams in the country in 2015 and the pitching staff led by Johnson was a significant contributing factor.
But according to Maroon and White Nation sources*, John Cohen has made a costly error. John Cohen did not read the resume of Johnson closely enough and actually hired the pitcher of Dallas Baptist Church Softball Team’s Starting Pitcher, also named Wes Johnson.