So, he did everything the same? You are saying that he never left campus to recruit in his entire tenure then, correct? Think about it.

Polk was definitely a creature of habit -- but he absolutely did not do everything exactly the same way for his entire tenure. You are arguing omniscience on something that we got directly from Polk during his 98-99 hiatus from coaching and incorporated from then on. It wasn't something picked up and incorporated along the way from Bertman, etc even though there was plenty of that type of stuff, it was something that Coach Polk literally taught us as a team himself while he was making his rounds during his retirement. As I said the first time -- I don't pretend to know what years he used it -- but he certainly taught it -- and Polk and Raffo spent quite a bit of time on l-screen/back-of-cage teaching/reinforcement throughout the time I was coming through.

What the geniuses in this thread apparently don't realize is that it wasn't about learning to be a "slap" hitter and it wasn't about removing power. It did neither -- in spite of them trying to will that into reality. It was about teaching bat control. And it was pretty damn effective in that regard.