Quote Originally Posted by CadaverDawg View Post
You make a few good points, but you are way too woe is us. Cohen isn't doing anything (other than the fluke CWS run) that every MSU coach before him couldn't do. If it's so hard to win at MSU, we must be damn good at picking coaches bc Polk, Mcmahon, Polk II, & Cohen have all won at MSU.

So yes, we have some disadvantages, but let's not poor mouth this thing to an exaggerated level either.
I will say its a tougher chore for Cohen to win now in the SEC than it was for Polk or McMahon. Back in Polk I and McMahon you didn't have the scholarship situation so out of whack from state to state like you have now. I mean just about every SEC state other than MS, AL and Ark now has a lottery that provides in state kid scholarships that don't count against the 11.7. Also, we had a much bigger "tradition" advantage and facilities advantage back in the 80s and 90s because we were one of the few that cared about baseball. I'm not sure Polk could have even survived in today's cutthroat environment of college baseball the way he recruited and with all the schools putting money into the sport.