McMahon experiment proves Polk wrong

[ChitownDog]

If Polk is so knowledgable about hiring coaches why didn't the Pat Mcmahon experiment work. That was the upstart to our downfall as a baseball program.

 

[Todd4State]

Also, he choose himself to replace McMahon, and well....

Now, Perno has worked out at UGA, but that certainly could be a blind squirrel finds nut scenario. I don't know how good Perno was as an assistant either. It is likely that he was as good or better than Raffo, though.

The only Polk assistant that I know of who has won a NC of any kind is Brian Shoop.

Polk talks about how Byrne doesn't know anything about baseball, and yet one of Greg's main contacts is a guy who has won two NC's at the D-I level, at Oregon State no less. I'm sure that Oregon has a lottery, so their NC's don't really count.

As far as our downfall, it all started with Polk coming back. We had a great shot at hiring Manieri when McMahon left, and LT pussed out. McMahon didn't leave our program in bad shape at all- a young team coming off of a SEC Tournament Championship and a SR appearance. That's a far cry from where we are now.

 

[dawgphd]

was his fallback for Dooley.

 

[Todd4State]

for listening to KB21. He had said at one time that Perno was Polk's choice. Lesson learned.

 

[beachbumdawg]

and UGA reluctantly hired Perno.....he was not in their Top 3 candidates from what I remember from the search

 

[patdog]

the most successful 4 consecutive year of baseball in MSU history (1 CWS, 2 super regionals, and 1 regional final - I challenge anyone to find 4 consecutive years in MSU history that were all better) and a class of returning players when he left that had more MSU players drafted in 2002 than in any year in MSU history. We'd have been a hell of a lot better off if McMahon had turned Florida down in 2001.

 

[rebel law]

Yeah McMahon sucked. Idiot.

 

[slickdawg]

McMahon was an outstanding coach. It's now obvious he still had to serve the master "ron" even though he was the head coach.

 

[dawgoneyall]

was not a good coach. You may like him but that does not make him a good coach.

 

[slickdawg]

Mac got us to the CWS, which is as far as Polk ever took us.