Texas A&M has obvious home-run candidate if they move on from Michael Earley

Texas A&M baseball is facing some really tough questions at the moment. The Aggies are all but guaranteed to miss the postseason at this point, with really the only possible exception being a magical yet grueling SEC tournament run in Hoover that would give them an auto-qualifier.

With "remote" being a rather kind evaluation of those chances, most Aggie fans are not counting on making a regional. After starting off as a preseason number one, the Ags missing out on even being included in the field is a remarkable disaster, and one that more than likely demands a change at the head coaching position.

The move to bring in Michael Earley made a lot of sense at the time, in all honesty. His hiring helped retain the entirety of the Aggies' College World Series lineup that could return. But at this point, it looks like a failed experiment.

It's not too late for the Aggies to wash their hands and move quickly onto a man who can return them to relevance quickly— and as it happens, there's an obvious candidate that they can tab for that very job.

Texas A&M baseball should move quickly to hire Alabama's Rob Vaughn

Rob Vaughn did a great job of reinvigorating— or maybe just invigorating— the Tide's baseball program upon his hiring. They're a legitimate SEC squad now, and trips to Tuscaloosa are no cake walk.

He's a proven guy at this level, in other words. The Aggies need that after going with the unproven but high-potential candidate in the last cycle.

He has enough of a cache to go with his name by this point, too, that it could help to minimize the potential transfer portal losses that the Aggies would be facing. There's just too much that would make sense with this hire here, and it's a great option to have if the Aggies do indeed decide to move on from Earley. If that does come to pass, expect to see Vaughn's name as a part of a lot of big boards for A&M.