Baseball Poll

[Croomp]

On the eve of the beginning of SEC play in baseball...

 

[JacksonDevilDog]

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[Toag Redloh]

we lost three contributing pitchers and our biggest home run threat off a team that went 7-7 pre-SEC play last season and had no confidence or swagger at all coming into this season. Not to mention the way he has strategically won some of those games, the way he handled himself during the Polk Meltdown, his desire to improve ALL things MSU baseball, his desire to build on the tradition of MSU baseball, and the talent in his first full recruiting class.

He's absolutely the best thing that could have happened to our program at this time. The only way it could have gone better would have been to hire Manieri instead of Polk. But that's up for debate, with the way it turned out and the CWS run and all.

 

[Todd4State]

Manieri would have done better than Polk II. And you have to winder how many CWS Manieri would have taken us to.

I do think that we would have lost hiim to LSU and then hired Cohen.

 

[TBonewannabe]

Cohen has done a great job. Polk left absolutely no quality pitching depth or any kind of quality hitters except maybe Powers. The rest need to be coached up which so far Cohen has a done a good job of. Cohen will damn sure earn his paycheck this year especially when it gets to the back half of SEC play and players get tired and banged up.

 

[RonnyAtmosphere]

..at this juncture is he didn't go 2-2 vs. Hawaii.

Having said that, if you think Polk could have coached this crew to a 10-4 record heading into conference play, then I have some Bear Stearns stock I want to sell you.

 

[Toag Redloh]

just like how actions speak louder the words, the rebels, even the nafoom guys, are all torn up about Cohen. When the venom flows, you know you've made the right call.

 

[Optimus Prime 4]

so I guess that means he was the right choice?

 

[BriantheDawg]

I love the brand of ball we're playing, but the NIU loss when he left a freshman pitcher in WAY too long to give up 6 runs or whatever it was still leaves a bad taste in my mouth. That, and we've been thrown out way too much trying to take the extra base when it's simply not there. The small ball and revamped attitude are a nice & welcome change though.

 

[patdog]

We were laughing our asses off at you over Orgeron just as much as you were at us over Crxxm. I don't think any Rebels are laughing about Cohen.

 

[38843dawg]

just like how actions speak louder the words, the rebels, even the nafoom guys, are all torn up about Cohen. When the venom flows, you know you've made the right call.

they know if they haven't been able to take advantage and make to Omaha while we have been down since Polk's second stop they know their chances now have dropped even more with Cohen being here. If Cohen is able to go to Kentucky and win a SEC Championship, then I'm sure he will do just fine once he can get his players in here. But to answer the original question I think he has down above average due to the fact that I didn't expect us to be even 10-4 going into SEC play. The only time I have been disappoionted of our play was the Hawaii series, and you could see that let down coming from a mile away.

 

[Optimus Prime 4]

and no one is scared yet. I won't make up my mind for a couple years most likely.

 

[patdog]

Y'all will do fine in baseball no matter how well (or poorly) Cohen does at MSU. But no sane Rebel could possibly laugh at our hiring a coach who has won an SEC championship like Rebels and Bulldogs both laughed when we both hired head football coaches who were completely unqualified for the job.

 

[olemissbydamn]

Nobody is laughing and nobody is crying.

Most are indifferent. Until Cohen proves a threat at MSU, nobody will care. Same for Mullen.

The posters who think OM fan are afraid of these guys are idiots. And OM fans who act as if both will fail are idiots.

 

[Todd4State]

I love the brand of ball we're playing, but the NIU loss when he left a freshman pitcher in WAY too long to give up 6 runs or whatever it was still leaves
a bad taste in my mouth. That, and we've been thrown out way too much trying to take the extra base when it's simply not there. The small ball and
revamped attitude are a nice & welcome change though.

 

[Frances Drebin]

...had he pulled the pitcher early and the pen given up those runs, you would've bitched about that, too.

Damn Cohen hater.