Optimus Prime 4 said:
and it's more likely than not that he'll get it turned it around. But it's just odd that you seem to be getting worse both in fundamentals and mental mistakes, and you seem to be willing to give him three more years to be competitive. That's a long time.
I don't think we're any worse in fundamentals or mental mistakes, and granted it's not better, but I think it's more obvious because the pitching was so crappy the past two years.
My thing is this- many of these players were crap under Polk and Raffo. They are still crap under Cohen. Is the reason that they are crap because Cohen can't coach (possible) or is it because they are crappy players (more likely)? Based on what Cohen has done as a coach at other places and what these players did under a previous staff- most of the best offensive seasons were under Cohen, and actually their regression offensively worries me more than our fundamentals, it seems more likely that it is the players rather than the coach.
As far as the time frame, as has been mentioned here, he has only one class on campus. Next year, it is not totally out of the realm of possibility that we could be starting seven freshman in the field next year. They are going to come in and some will adjust immediately like Stratton, most will be up and down, and some will struggle. By the time Cohen's first class are juniors, and his second class are sophomores- and they will be young but experienced by that time, they should be good. By that time it will be a totally different situation. Cohen will have been here for four years and he will have players that are much, much more highly rated out of high school than Polk's. Odds are, we won't have 9-10 busts so to speak, and if that does happen, and based on how the team performs, then I would say it's on Cohen.