I don't follow college baseball very closely, so my opinion comes with a ton of caveats. When Warde hired Tracy Smith, many were surprised because he was out of baseball for a year after a failed run at Arizona State.
To be fair to the process, coaching baseball at a northern school is not the idea position for a hot coaching prospect. You want to be at a place that can play and practice year round. It's the reason
Clemson doubled the salary of Erik Bakich. Baseball at Michigan is nowhere funded like the football or basketball programs.