Ok so i'm having dinner with Dan Mullen, Scott Stricklin and John Cohen in the next couple of days.

paindonthurt_

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Ok so i'm having dinner with Dan Mullen, Scott Stricklin and John Cohen in the next couple of days.

Give me a list of topics.
 

paindonthurt_

All-Conference
Jun 27, 2009
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Ok so i'm having dinner with Dan Mullen, Scott Stricklin and John Cohen in the next couple of days.

Give me a list of topics.
 

paindonthurt_

All-Conference
Jun 27, 2009
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Ok so i'm having dinner with Dan Mullen, Scott Stricklin and John Cohen in the next couple of days.

Give me a list of topics.
 

SchruteDog

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<p align="left">Be sure to acknowledge at dinner that a couple of unnamed roundball coaches failed to show up, just like their teams.</p>
 

GTAdawg

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Ok so i'm having dinner with Dan Mullen, Scott Stricklin and John Cohen in the next couple of days.

**
 

GABully24

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VirgilCain

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dawgoneyall

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Ok so i'm having dinner with Dan Mullen, Scott Stricklin and John Cohen in the next couple of days.

they get the cheerleader back.
 

Shmuley

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Ok so i'm having dinner with Dan Mullen, Scott Stricklin and John Cohen in the next couple of days.

"Coach34 will send you a donation acknowledgment."
 

MadDawg.sixpack

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Ok so i'm having dinner with Dan Mullen, Scott Stricklin and John Cohen in the next couple of days.

I realize that will be a tall order and all.
 

paindonthurt_

All-Conference
Jun 27, 2009
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Ok so i'm having dinner with Dan Mullen, Scott Stricklin and John Cohen in the next couple of days.
 

thunderclap

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Feb 25, 2008
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and the reasons not to.</p>
 

paindonthurt_

All-Conference
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Ok so i'm having dinner with Dan Mullen, Scott Stricklin and John Cohen in the next couple of days.
 

FISHDAWG

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or Kenny Rogers</p>
 

paindonthurt_

All-Conference
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Ok so i'm having dinner with Dan Mullen, Scott Stricklin and John Cohen in the next couple of days.

I think its telling that he wasn't invited or either he declined. Either way it shows some discontent which i have always heard.

Someone asked me if i was going to wait for them to order drinks before i did? An astounding NO. I plan to drink Charter 10 on the rocks and shoot from the hip. Its either going to be hilarious or really hilarious depending on your point of view.

Someone also requested that I take a court stenographer to record the dialogue. It was too expensive.
 

jmbeck

Redshirt
Sep 7, 2005
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Ok so i'm having dinner with Dan Mullen, Scott Stricklin and John Cohen in the next couple of days.

And it absolutely couldn't have anything to do with being in the middle of the %@%$$$+ season.
 

Coach34

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Jul 20, 2012
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Ok so i'm having dinner with Dan Mullen, Scott Stricklin and John Cohen in the next couple of days.

MadDawg said:
I realize that will be a tall order and all.


I think Cohen will be able to match his beginnings of making it in year 4
 

VirgilCain

Redshirt
Aug 9, 2008
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.
 

FQDawg

Senior
May 1, 2006
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MadDawg.sixpack

Redshirt
May 22, 2006
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Rick won 42% of his SEC games the first 3 seasons. The Other Recruiter would need to go 19-11 this year to match that. Does he have it in him?
 

PineGroveBully

Redshirt
Nov 13, 2007
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Ok so i'm having dinner with Dan Mullen, Scott Stricklin and John Cohen in the next couple of days.

Pass the butta
 

Coach34

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Jul 20, 2012
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1. "Coach Mullen, since we have beaten the Bears two in a row, they have stepped up their efforts to combat us. Desperate people are dangerous and they have shown throughout history they will do whatever it takes to get the state back- I know you are a better coach than Nutts, do you plan to make any recruiting adjustments for the next year?

2. "Mr Stricklin- basketball has alot of problems and is trending downward. Do we have an exit strategy in place if things dont improve soon? No coach in any major conference has kept his job for 13 years without making a Sweet 16- do we have any plans to compete on a national level anytime soon?

3. "Coach Cohen, most people dont realize what bad shape Coach Polk left the program in, but i do and keep on battling out there. I admire the fact you stepped up the schedule in year 2, but glad you scaled it back this season until we get on our feet. Let's get those young pitchers ready and have a winning season this year.
 

Coach34

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1. SEC baseball is probably tougher top to bottom than SEC football. And basketball isnt even close- that factors in

2. Name the SEC school's baseball coach that only left campus 1 time his last two seasons to recruit players? I'll give you a hint- he only recruited players from his camps. That, my man, is a damn hole to claw your program out of.

3. It's easier to win in basketball- regardless of conference. 5 starters in basketball vs 17 starters in baseball (8 position players, 5 SP's, and 4 RP's)

25%...43%...really dont make a ****- it's about getting teams in the NCAA Tourney and competing nationally. And just like The Recruiter's supporters thought he would get there in the beginning, so do the Cohen supporters.
 

patdog

Heisman
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Ok so i'm having dinner with Dan Mullen, Scott Stricklin and John Cohen in the next couple of days.

I don't care how tough the SEC is in baseball or how bad shape the program was in when Cohen inherited it, his performance so far has been embarrassing. If we wanted to win only 25% of our conference games, we could have just kept Polk. It's time for Cohen to start winning some damn games. Right now, I'm not convinced we didn't make the wrong choice in choosing him over Raffo, or that the right choice was neither of them.
 

MadDawg.sixpack

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May 22, 2006
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Ok so i'm having dinner with Dan Mullen, Scott Stricklin and John Cohen in the next couple of days.

And there is simply no way I can agree with your premise #3. Sure you don't have as many starters in basketball than baseball. But you also don't even have a fraction of the same number of competitive teams vying for the same players.
 

lawdawg02

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Jan 23, 2007
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Ok so i'm having dinner with Dan Mullen, Scott Stricklin and John Cohen in the next couple of days.

I'd like to know the ADs thoughts.
 

Coach34

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Ok so i'm having dinner with Dan Mullen, Scott Stricklin and John Cohen in the next couple of days.

Dallas Baptist University made the NCAA Tourney in baseball. I'd say that means they are pullin in quality athletes too.

And Patdog, you say its embarrassing because of what we used to be- but we arent what we used to be. Polk made sure of that. The man didnt leave campus to recruit the last two years. How many top 10 round draft picks have we had the last 2 years? Hell, draft picks period? Compare that with other SEC schools. Cohen has had to play alot of the hand dealt to him, especially out of respect to Polk.
 

AROB44

Junior
Mar 20, 2008
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Ok so i'm having dinner with Dan Mullen, Scott Stricklin and John Cohen in the next couple of days.

Has your father-in-law gotten fed up with Stans yet or does he still support him 100%?
 

pDigital32Dawg

Freshman
Aug 29, 2009
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Ok so i'm having dinner with Dan Mullen, Scott Stricklin and John Cohen in the next couple of days.

and ask what our athletic department is doing to reduce the amount of stupidity by our athletes on twitter and facebook.

For ***** and giggles drop Uncle Eddie quotes in the discussion when you are talking to Mullen
 

Arthur2478

Redshirt
Oct 17, 2010
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Ok so i'm having dinner with Dan Mullen, Scott Stricklin and John Cohen in the next couple of days.

Ask Stricklin about a timeline to announce the expansion of Davis Wade. He's already tweet-teased a picture of the concept, so when are they gonna publicly release the details?
 

patdog

Heisman
May 28, 2007
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Ok so i'm having dinner with Dan Mullen, Scott Stricklin and John Cohen in the next couple of days.

Cohen may have taken over a betterprogram at Kentucky than he did at MSU. He definitely took a worse program than Mullen did. But even Polk never went 6-24. That's a special kind of bad. Hell, that may be the worst record ever in the SEC. You go 6-24 in your 2nd year and I don't care if you inherited a bad jr high team, that's embarrassing. Not because of what we once were. That's embarrassing for anybody. I haven't totally given up on him yet, and he definitely deserves this year because of how bad things were when he got here. But you can't just put all the blame for 6-24 on Polk. Some of it's Cohen's fault, and he's quickly reaching the point where it's all on him, win or lose. I hope he wins big at MSU, but I'm not near as confident about that as I was 2 years ago.
 

MadDawg.sixpack

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May 22, 2006
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Ok so i'm having dinner with Dan Mullen, Scott Stricklin and John Cohen in the next couple of days.

it's only popular in the south and out west.

Just look at any preseason top 25. There may be one, possibly two schools in that entire list that aren't either in the south or on the west coast.
 

Tds &amp; Beer

Redshirt
Jan 26, 2010
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Ok so i'm having dinner with Dan Mullen, Scott Stricklin and John Cohen in the next couple of days.

make the baseball logo the logo for all sports and keep it forever. Then ask him what Stansbury supporters that have an influence on decisions use to backup their feelings for wanting him to stay. Just wondering what could possibly be the reason to keep him.
 

FQDawg

Senior
May 1, 2006
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Ok so i'm having dinner with Dan Mullen, Scott Stricklin and John Cohen in the next couple of days.

and I know I'm not the only one. I think it is fine as a baseball logo, because most schools generally have an old-school type logo for baseball. But I wouldn't want it as the logo for every sport.

Let's leave it to baseball where it belongs.
 

msumhsfan

Redshirt
Sep 21, 2009
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11
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and then not change them. lets get some classic recognition like most of our SEC brethren. But I do like the currentMississippi State on the Humpfloor, so it can stay</p>
 
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inquiring minds want to know
 

QuaoarsKing

All-Conference
Mar 11, 2008
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Ok so i'm having dinner with Dan Mullen, Scott Stricklin and John Cohen in the next couple of days.

We didn't even come in 12th last year...that was Georgia at 5-23.<div>
</div><div>Not that that in any way excuses such an abysmal record. But let's not make sweeping false overgeneralizations about it.</div>
 

whatever.sixpack

Redshirt
Jun 27, 2008
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0
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Ok so i'm having dinner with Dan Mullen, Scott Stricklin and John Cohen in the next couple of days.

Having less players in basketball actually creates more parity. The big schools aren't able to horde all the good players like they do in football, when that happens, there are less good players to go around.<div>
</div><div>Only being able to have so few players on a basketball scholarship makes it where there are a lot of good players to go around, so it makes it easy for the little school to be good, and harder for the big budget schools to consistently dominate. It's not like SEC schools don't care about basketball, it's just hard to become a great program unless you have UNC, Duke, UK, or another name school on your jersey</div>
 

GhostOfJackie

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Ok so i'm having dinner with Dan Mullen, Scott Stricklin and John Cohen in the next couple of days.

And send me the tape. I won't release it to anybody. PM me for my information.