Doubledrip,
CAK has the money to go after any big name coach that they want as they did with Coaches Young and Darden but as voldad showed us without meaning to do so, who is CAK anyways? Why would a coach like Pharr or Wormsley or Buckner who are in good situations want to leave for a school that went 10-10 and was carried by arguably the best player in the state.
Papatj,
As sad as it is to say, i would think that Coach Gum's departure can be more attributed to the first of your assumptions rather than the second. It really is a shame that some people would rather look at the win-loss column instead of the character building and the life lessons that a coach can teach. I wish the best for the players at CAK but im afraid the administration, aided by some parents with well endowed checkbooks, may have just hurt the baseball program more than they helped it.