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Todd I think that last part is a big reason your opinion draws so much criticism. Do you really think these coaches are just playing favoritism with as much riding on their success and as much success they have already had here? That we truly have an informed opinion on things when we are not living it as much as these coaches are. And make no mistake they make a lot of money but the hours they spend to come up the game plans and personnel groupings, continued evaluations, recruiting, etc. It is mind boggling and if you really stepped back and thought about it you would see that whatever problems we see now is the answer to what they have been studying for weeks and they are already working on the next problem that we don't even know about. Doesn't mean they necessarily like the solution but at this point in time it's the best they believe they have from a completely informed perspective. That's what most have been saying to you. It's not just about your opinion but your opinion from such a lack of information. You wouldn't make these same judgements about a baseball player and Cohen but you have a pretty big snap judgment with Mullen and it's not that he is always right. It's just he is going to be right over us strictly because he has so much more information that he has already gone through because it is his staffs job on the line. The program he envisions and how it will be accomplished (and a major part of that is what he expects from the players and the rite of playing time inside the program, which has most definitely worked).
I believe that they do value hard work and will reward that over a guy that is a hard worker over a guy that is more talented that doesn't work as hard. And it is a very difficult situation for them when they have something like Perkins and Robinson. If that is "playing favorites" then yeah I think they do in certain cases. I do not believe that they do anything that they intend to not work or hurt the program.

As far as Cohen- I've pretty much railed Butch over the handing of the pitching staff- which was the downfall of our season IMO. I've also been critical of Cohen on some things as well- Frost, not recruiting power hitters that weren't draft risks, too many JUCO's etc.

At the same time, if Ben Howland doesn't start Malik Newman, are we just going to go along with that too? Or he is above questioning as well? Just give me a heads up. Since Malik doesn't have any college experience as well.

How many posters on here post information about things that they have heard through the grapevine or whatever? Do you really think that everyone that doles out info is hanging out with the coaches every day? Some sure, but probably most don't. So now all of a sudden I have to have a massive amount of information to have an opinion on something for it to be accepted?

I believe that I should be able to have an opinion and not be told that I have to be a coach at practice to validate that opinion.