I wish I could get paid $200,000 plus a year to sit on my fat ***, smoke cigars, and ***** about the NCAA!</p>
I Sure Am Glad Ron Polk Left Us Loaded With Talent
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I wish I could get paid $200,000 plus a year to sit on my fat ***, smoke cigars, and ***** about the NCAA!</p>
current group of kids than we are seeing right now. These kids do not fit what Cohen is looking for physically or mentally. This is not a knock on the kids on this team which most certainly are great kids. Cohen will get his guys over the next couple of years and it is going to be exciting, I do believe that for sure. Ron Polk deserves all the respect in the world, I can't tell you the pleasure I have enjoyed over the years listening to his teams with my dad, he truly is a Bulldog ledgend and should be respected as such. I do agree he lost his focus and went bat **** crazy over the NCAA and he has paid the price. Let's move forward giving him the respect he deserves with high expectations for the future.
Not to mention the way he showed his *** regarding Raffo-gate. He feel from his pedestal when he started threatening people via the media. Respect isn't something bestowed upon you because of a title.coach66 said:
"Now he's got me on the warpath and all I can do is hurt him," Polk said of Byrne. "I'm going to do everything I can to make his life miserable."
Yeah, that's very respectable.
and there aren't alot of style points in that area, just need to get guys out and it ain't happening. Honestly the worst pitching I can remember is probably one of our most succesful seasons we ever had when Clark and Palmerio were in their prime. Certainly we had some quality pitchers on that team but we had some bad ones too. I seem to remember the team era was pretty bad but we could still beat most teams handidly. There was a pitcher named Mundie that damn near went undefeated with and era over 5.00, I believe.</p>
He's been mailing it in since he first quit on State in 1991. I noticed that, when he coached at Georgia, he didn't ***** and complain and he put a World Series team on the field his 2nd year.
I think that, by the end of his tenure here, he truly hated State. He just felt a sense of duty to come back here, and all the NCAA ******** was just something to keep him interested in something.
I think that, by the end of his tenure here, he truly hated State. He just felt a sense of duty to come back here, and all the NCAA ******** was just something to keep him interested in something.
This team would not have 14 wins at this point with Polk! This is team is a mirror image of Paul Maineri's first team at LSU. He got his *** beat in year one. He went the JUCO route with his first recruiting class, and went to Omaha in year 2.
I expect Cohen to have a much better year next year with the JUCO guys he is bringing in here.
I expect Cohen to have a much better year next year with the JUCO guys he is bringing in here.
I think we would be worse than last year because we don't have Weatherford to nail down the eighth and ninth on the rare occasion that we had a lead.
How he survived the wrath of McNickle, I'll never know.
Polk would have continued to keep pitchers in too long, and kept playing station to station. At least Cohen is willing to pull a pitcher before he gives up seven runs and I really feel like we're maximizing what offense we can muster. The Memphis game is an example of this. We get a run on a squeeze play, and I think it really swung momentum in our favor. With Polk, it takes 3-4 hits strung together to score.
How he survived the wrath of McNickle, I'll never know.
Polk would have continued to keep pitchers in too long, and kept playing station to station. At least Cohen is willing to pull a pitcher before he gives up seven runs and I really feel like we're maximizing what offense we can muster. The Memphis game is an example of this. We get a run on a squeeze play, and I think it really swung momentum in our favor. With Polk, it takes 3-4 hits strung together to score.
was that he was motivated to win up until 1985 because according to my Dad "Polk figured if he couldn't win a NC with that team, it wasn't ever going to happen."
Take that for what it's worth, but I've followed State for a while, and Polk did seem to lose some fire after that year slowly but surely.
I don't think he hates State. I do think that he was a little bit pissed at McMahon for bailing on the job that was "annointed" to him. But I really think that McMahon left in part because he was tired of hearing "what Ron Polk would have done". We're the only people that worship the guy, he was simply coming back to his mecca. It was a seven year retirement party. I think he saw an opportunity to come back, figured he was untouchable and could do what he wanted- he did demand to get the job and he wasn't even an employee, and in my view had much more power than LT. His arrogance allowed him to believe that he could simply recruit out of the baseball camp and that top players would come to MSU to "play for the legend". If worse came to worse, he could convince his people that we simply couldn't compete because of lottery scholarships and NCAA by-laws, never mind that everyone else has to play by the same rules, and they would buy it hook line and sinker. Anyone that disagreed would be flogged with the New Testament, and the fact that Ron Polk knows more about baseball than you because he wrote a book. If he does hate State, he's stupid because we're the ones that allowed him to have an opportunity to build his program and give him facilities, not to mention support.
I believe Ron Polk has this perfect baseball world where all the coaches in the SEC came from his tree and Byrne and Cohen upset that. Hence the "Raffo should be at State and UK needs John Cohen." comments. I believe he hates Byrne. Cohen has smoothed things over, but I imagine that he probably threw Byrne under the bus to do it. Probably something along the lines of "Greg told me he wasn't hiring Raffo, no matter what, so I decided that this was the best way to keep things in the family."
I think Ron Polk has some big time self-esteem issues. He was not a good baseball player- he hit below the Mendoza Line at JUCO in Arizona, but he did possess a great baseball mind and a knack for teaching the game, and the coach at the University of Arizona recognized that and gave him a shot. I don't necessarily buy the "he doesn't have a wife because he's married to the game" notion. I just think he can't get a girlfriend. And no, I don't think he's gay either. And according to Jonathan Papelbon, he has a small unit. I'll take his word for it. I think coaching baseball is one of the few things that he has done where he has gotten true praise, and we're the ones giving it to him.
Take that for what it's worth, but I've followed State for a while, and Polk did seem to lose some fire after that year slowly but surely.
I don't think he hates State. I do think that he was a little bit pissed at McMahon for bailing on the job that was "annointed" to him. But I really think that McMahon left in part because he was tired of hearing "what Ron Polk would have done". We're the only people that worship the guy, he was simply coming back to his mecca. It was a seven year retirement party. I think he saw an opportunity to come back, figured he was untouchable and could do what he wanted- he did demand to get the job and he wasn't even an employee, and in my view had much more power than LT. His arrogance allowed him to believe that he could simply recruit out of the baseball camp and that top players would come to MSU to "play for the legend". If worse came to worse, he could convince his people that we simply couldn't compete because of lottery scholarships and NCAA by-laws, never mind that everyone else has to play by the same rules, and they would buy it hook line and sinker. Anyone that disagreed would be flogged with the New Testament, and the fact that Ron Polk knows more about baseball than you because he wrote a book. If he does hate State, he's stupid because we're the ones that allowed him to have an opportunity to build his program and give him facilities, not to mention support.
I believe Ron Polk has this perfect baseball world where all the coaches in the SEC came from his tree and Byrne and Cohen upset that. Hence the "Raffo should be at State and UK needs John Cohen." comments. I believe he hates Byrne. Cohen has smoothed things over, but I imagine that he probably threw Byrne under the bus to do it. Probably something along the lines of "Greg told me he wasn't hiring Raffo, no matter what, so I decided that this was the best way to keep things in the family."
I think Ron Polk has some big time self-esteem issues. He was not a good baseball player- he hit below the Mendoza Line at JUCO in Arizona, but he did possess a great baseball mind and a knack for teaching the game, and the coach at the University of Arizona recognized that and gave him a shot. I don't necessarily buy the "he doesn't have a wife because he's married to the game" notion. I just think he can't get a girlfriend. And no, I don't think he's gay either. And according to Jonathan Papelbon, he has a small unit. I'll take his word for it. I think coaching baseball is one of the few things that he has done where he has gotten true praise, and we're the ones giving it to him.
also brought in some talented Fr.
I didn't think Smoke Laval would come close to having the success that Bertman had, but I am surprised at how bad he was.
I didn't think Smoke Laval would come close to having the success that Bertman had, but I am surprised at how bad he was.
Todd4State said:
smoke was all smoke. i had him at a hitting camp once when he was at ULM and he confused the **** out of me not to mention the kids at the camp. i thought then that the guy was full of **** and just rode what he thought was a cool nickname
to compare 1985 to this year. 1985 had Jeff Brantly and Gene Morgan as starters and Bobby Thigpen as closer. It will take a little research to recall the third starter. Don Mundie was 1979 if my memory serves. The best pitching staff I can recall at State was not under Polk but Coach Gregory in 1971 with Brantly Jones, Mike Profitt and Thompson.
Edited to say Mundie might have been '81 and now I do recall Intorcia getting lit up like a Christmas tree.
Edited to say Mundie might have been '81 and now I do recall Intorcia getting lit up like a Christmas tree.
and I remember asking my Dad why MSU just wouldn't let him retire like he wanted because he probably wasn't going to put much effort in keeping the baseball program going.
I also remember thinking- Hey, it's not like MSU couldn't find another good baseball coach.
I also remember my Dad saying "I don't know either."
I also remember thinking- Hey, it's not like MSU couldn't find another good baseball coach.
I also remember my Dad saying "I don't know either."
