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Holliday is Home Run for OSU
Published: 6/8/2012 4:13 PM
Last Modified: 6/8/2012 4:13 PM

Josh Holliday would appear to be a home run for Oklahoma State baseball.
He has strong ties to a glorious past. He’s got a fantastic resume as an assistant coach.
He loves the school. He’ll do everything possible to bring all the different groups together to return OSU baseball to glory.
Holliday, who grew up around the OSU baseball program, is the son of former assistant and head coach Tom Holliday.
I used to watch him and his younger brother Matt, now an all-star for the St. Louis Cardinals, run around the stadium being chased by their mother.
He grew up around a program that was as good as it gets for about 20 years.
Then, he played for the Cowboys, leading them to two College World Series appearances.
He gets it. He understands OSU baseball.
He knows what it takes to win in Stillwater. He knows the good and the bad of OSU baseball.
Most importantly, he has a passion for OSU baseball.
Forget the debate over OSU’s baseball stadium. It is irrelevant. Former OSU coach Gary Ward started his hall-of-fame career in Stillwater with a few wooden grandstands and a virtual cow pasture for a field.
This isn’t about facilities. This is about recruiting, coaching and doing the right thing.
The facilities will come. It is more important for the victories to start to come back.



Reader Comments 1 Total
colhi64 (8 months ago)
What ocmes first, the chicken or the egg? Recruiting now days is based on facilities, kids are spoiled and want go to first class. So the question is, will they win first and then get the facilities, or will they need all new toys before they can win again? I guess time will tell.
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