Polk's Pussies
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I enjoyed watching those pussies go to the college world series in 2007. The year I graduated and the best time I had at State was them beating Clemson.
<div style="text-align: left;"> hey, i'm glad he's gone. we now have one of the best coaches in the game. i'm just not liking the tone of the original post and the false part... "every year"beachbumdawg said:
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well you could nearly say that for Polk Era 2.0.....cause it wasnt pretty from wehn he returned from UGA till he retired.....program was in steady declineTheMAROONandWHITE said:
Cohen was in Huntsville last Tuesday night for an alumni meeting.
He had a slide-show presentation, and he has great respect for his former coach.
Polk's over the hill, like I am also, but...
he had some great years, and and coached some outstanding players.
I love your other board, Slick, as a member of that group for many years.
But, I'm disagreeing with your overall assessment of Polkie.
There's a reason the field bears his name. From earlier years, not the past few.
RCD
He had a slide-show presentation, and he has great respect for his former coach.
Polk's over the hill, like I am also, but...
he had some great years, and and coached some outstanding players.
I love your other board, Slick, as a member of that group for many years.
But, I'm disagreeing with your overall assessment of Polkie.
There's a reason the field bears his name. From earlier years, not the past few.
RCD
...it was that since 1990, coaching baseball at Mississippi State wasn't his greatest priority. I believe he got bored with just coaching baseball, and decided to tilt at windmills simply to spice up his life.
It's a testament to his skill as a coach that 2008 was State's first losing season since 1975. That said, I'm glad we got him out of here. He quit on State THREE times....1991, 1997, and 2008. He could'nt/wouldn't recruit the way he used to, so the players weren't as good. The assistant coaches weren't as good, especially the pitching coach.
It's good to see Cohen bring hard-nose baseball back to Mstate.
It's a testament to his skill as a coach that 2008 was State's first losing season since 1975. That said, I'm glad we got him out of here. He quit on State THREE times....1991, 1997, and 2008. He could'nt/wouldn't recruit the way he used to, so the players weren't as good. The assistant coaches weren't as good, especially the pitching coach.
It's good to see Cohen bring hard-nose baseball back to Mstate.
is a lot of our "fans" want to believe that all of our players are angels, go to church every Sunday, date sweet, nice girls, don't drink, smoke and cuss.....and yet you had guys like Will Clark and Papelbon who were wild men. And they were hardly alone. It's really fun to watch the sheep freak out when they hear Papelbon talk about getting wasted while he was at State.
But in baseball, I think the team takes the personality of the coach on the field. And that's what we had with Polk. It was almost like Polk would hear people in the stands yell at him to steal or bunt and he wouldn't do it to try to "teach everyone a baseball lesson". And that's the thing about Polk- he was more of a teacher of the game than anything else. A guy like Bertman or Ron Fraser- they were great managers. They did whatever it took to win. Polk was happy if his guys "knew baseball" when they graduated.
But in baseball, I think the team takes the personality of the coach on the field. And that's what we had with Polk. It was almost like Polk would hear people in the stands yell at him to steal or bunt and he wouldn't do it to try to "teach everyone a baseball lesson". And that's the thing about Polk- he was more of a teacher of the game than anything else. A guy like Bertman or Ron Fraser- they were great managers. They did whatever it took to win. Polk was happy if his guys "knew baseball" when they graduated.