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Another bad story, I watched Brian Dozier play in a tournament in amory, and he was very impressive. Big time guy. I call the next day and tell a person who shall remain nameless that I saw a shortstop, he perks up and say who? I said Brian dozier at itawamba. You could almost hear the ballon pop thru the phone as I get this response, "yea, we've seen him, he can't hit and won't play for us!" My response he is good enough defensively that he can hit 100 and is worth it. And I thought he could hit too. Well, unfortunately I was right and he was only good enough to play in the bigs. Oh well. There are more than just he and pettway and it's painful to tell.

Speaking of screwups, let's not forget Pat not letting Josh Grisham's son walk-on. Virginia let the kid walk-on and JG poured millions into the UVA program. I read an interview with the UVA coach who said the program would have never ascended without the Grisham money. How hard is it to let a plutocrat's son play the last two innings when you have a 15 run lead against St. Olaf?

The Mac-Polk II eras are like a bad sit-com.

I know a guy who played at USM with Dozier on the CWS team and he laughed when I told him that MSU didn't offer Dozier. He said, "He's the best SS I've ever seen. He's an unbelievable leader and all of the guys have the highest respect for him." We massively dropped the ball on him. He would have walked backwards to Starkville.

I get angry when I hear baseball people in the know discuss players that wanted to play at MSU and were not offered or evaluated as "not good enough." Only to see us sign players not even half as good and keep them for their 4 years and not move them to another school where they could play more and keep our program from tanking.

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Originally Posted by Jacksondevildog

I get angry when I hear baseball people in the know discuss players that wanted to play at MSU and were not offered or evaluated as "not good enough." Only to see us sign players not even half as good and keep them for their 4 years and not move them to another school where they could play more and keep our program from tanking.

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And now you are beginning to see the "evil" of Polk's way of doing things -- while he's still bitching about the "evil" of Cohen's way...

Cohen gives MORE THAN DOUBLE the number of kids the opportunity to actually play for MSU. Sets capable players up with every bit of academic aid they can possibly qualify for(even though these are technically baseball "walk ons"). Many of those kids come "out of pocket" for less than the actual baseball scholarship kids. This essentially doubles our scholarship pool -- and Cohen never actually discerns who is on baseball and who is on academic scholarship -- so it breeds equality and competition within those guys -- and he lets them settle who our 35 are going to be on the field. He gives kids that want to be here EVERY opportunity to make it happen.

I'm not even going to get started on PolkII's "walk on" policy -- not today... But basically, he had "his" scholarship guys -- and would lie to get kids to walk on that were better than "his guys" and would consistently outperform them in the fall -- only to be cut days before the season -- and left optionless and missing a full year of baseball. These were guys that were guaranteed spots on the front end and often guys that turned down other scholarship opportunities in order to be at MSU. He was WELL KNOWN for this when I was coming through...

State could've had Tankersley, too, with a little effort back then.

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Originally Posted by turkish

State could've had Tankersley, too, with a little effort back then.

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Jim case thought he was a flake. I laughed. It's true.