Quote Originally Posted by Coach34 View Post
CWS Title > anything Polk did. Title trumps all. You can give Polk credit for longevity and building the program. But he was never as successful as Lemon or Cohen.

Lemon is just entering his 6th season and he has a title. He was cheated in 2020 of possibly another because that team was possibly our best of all-time. They got cheated so badly. You are comparing 29 seasons of Polk vs 5 seasons of Lemon. Polk had 6 CWS seasons in 29 seasons- Lemon has a title and 2 in 5 seasons.
It's ok that you like Lemons, end of the day, he's the coach MSU has. I hope he does better than I expect him to do.

I think the championship prejudice becomes relevant at 3 to 5 championships like Skip Bertman. The singleton guys can't really claim better track records than Polk, Mike Martin, or Schlossnagle. I would have traded our singleton for Vitello before last year, Vitello has been clearly superior for several years now. The new Oregon State dude is a potential giant.