Does this quote dumbfound any of you?...

[dawgstudent]

"He's willing to push the envelope for things he thinks will benefit the program," said Mike Nemeth, the associate athletic director who oversees baseball. "<span style="font-weight: bold;">John has opened our eyes a little bit around here about maybe how some of the other schools in the conference have caught up to Mississippi State</span>."

Seriously??!!! It took a new coach coming in to see that?

 

[Stormrider81]

That's actually what I half expected to be the case. I didn't expect them to say it, but I'm not shocked that's the way it was. It's obvious we were oblivious to things being done at other schools. Polk was a legend that did things his way, and our administration simply stayed out of his way. That's yet another reason that passing over Raffo for Cohen was a great thing. Raffo might have had a few ideas of his own, but has been under Polk for way too many years not to have the man strongly influence the way he would do things. Cohen, meanwhile, has been finding way to be successful at a school whose fans could really care less about baseball.

 

[saltybulldog]

It all boils down to complacency in our athletic department. I think alot of our guys are just going through the motions day in and day out.

 

[DerHntr]

it is absurd that we have people in the AD that needed their eyes opened by someone. how could anyone believe that polk would be able to continue to blaze a path in college baseball when he was too preoccupied with crusading against the NCAA? there is simply too much blind faith of coaching staff by adminstrators at MSU.

 

[Coach34]

amazing what just a few new ideas can do to invigorate a program. People need to realize we can have this in football as well- we just have to pull the trigger.</p>

We made a good hire in baseball and we are reeling in the results even before we have taken the field.</p>

<font face="Trebuchet MS">Football can be the same exact way- It's Time</font></p>

 

[patdog]

Our athletic dept for many years has been seriously short-sighted and inbred (in the sense that most all promotions and new hires have come from within the "family"). They've only known one way of doing things and that's the way things have always been done. So no, it doesn't surprise me at all that a baseball program run by a coach who doesn't know how to turn a computer on and overseen by an athletic director who doesn't like to use a computer either would fall behind the other schools in the conference and not realize it.