Quote Originally Posted by engie View Post
What exactly did I exaggerate?

Cohen is FAR MORE disadvantaged than any of those that came before him since at least the Gregory days before my lifetime.

Polk -- first full-time paid head baseball coach in the SEC. Big advantage. Got DNF built. Huge advantage. Didn't initially face the rules that now exist.
McMahon -- got DNF expanded. Was the first skyboxes in the country for college baseball. Was still the best stadium in the country at that point till the 2nd or 3rd Baum expansion in 2001-2003 or thereabouts.
Polk 2 -- Inherited a ton of talent which he wasted. Still inherited a competitive advantage facilities wise which he wasted in allowing the OM program to be built. Got the first dedicated IPF in college baseball history.
Cohen -- Inherited a total shit show on the field. Inherited the 2nd best stadium in north Mississippi. Inherited a fanbase where all of the old money wanted him fired before he ever showed up, many of which still do to this day. Inherited a 30 year old pile of bricks that was at best the 4th or 5th best stadium in the west the day he arrived and is unquestionably either 6th or 7th best in it's own division depending on how "best" is defined now.

Given the different SEC he's faced compared to all of those that came before him, it's amazing that he's won as much as he has to this point. We won't know how good he can be until we catch up in the facilities race(which is absolutely a huge portion of the deal among elite level recruits these days -- per 2 former SEC coaches).

But by all means -- our fanbase is good at sticking their head in the sand about what is really going on all around them -- show up for SBW -- and decide we are an imminent national power that should be so much better than the top 10 team we currently are. Nothing I can do to stop it -- nor is there anything going to prevent me from calling it ridiculous.
What a drama queen.