Quote Originally Posted by Ranchdawg View Post
One of my best friends in high school played at State under Polk. When Polk was still somewhat young. Friend told me that him and other players use to make fun of Polk because at practice Polk would make all the players run drills till to the point of being maddening. Some coaches friend said would hit 20 grounders to the short stop. Not Polk he would hit 60 for example.

Now friend is a high school coach and somewhat successful coach he does same. Now that he has matured he now sees the importance of doing the little things till it become routine and cuts way down on mistakes when actual play comes.
Polk was widely know for marathon length practices, but that was in an era prior to the NCAA limiting practice times. Beginning in 1991, the NCAA instituted the 20-hour practice limit per week. Prior to that teams could practice as much as they wanted to.