Quote Originally Posted by KOdawg1 View Post
This is lacking context.

Pollard was at some lower level schools early in his career and took over a Duke program that quite literally had done nothing before he got there. His first few years were rough but then he built it up and they've made 6 regionals in 8 years. Soon to be 7 in 9.
He took them to their first regional in 55 years. He's been to 3 super regionals, something Duke had never done before him. So his overall winning %, while not completely irrelevant, is pretty meaningless when comparing him to Lemonis.

Lemonis on the other hand, is a guy who took over an Indiana team that had gone to the CWS before he got there and then proceeded to do nothing with them. He gets a little credit for not immediately crashing the car Cohen and Cann built for him. Kudos for that.
I've said before that I'm not as high as others on Pollard, but to try to say he and Lemonis are basically the same is asinine. Pollard walked into a team at Duke that had not made a tournament appearance since 1961. He had to build them from the absolute floor. Lemonis walked into a team that was coming off a 3rd place finish in Omaha and returned all but 1 starter in the field and all but one starter on the mound.