True Maroon

Well we have been just about been dead last in fielding and hitting since Cohen got here... pitching has got better but it's still near the lower half of the SEC....his best hitting team was made up of Polk hitters.....that is what people in sports call a trend or you can just blame it on Polk like a hand full of folks are still holding on to.

I've wondered about your last question too, but I don't think he's the type person that will step down.

I think Arrow stated it perfectly about our baseball program a week or so back. We compete in one of the nation's toughest divisions against programs that finally decided to pour money and support into their programs. We used to be unique and special when college baseball was an afterthought, but things are a whole lot different now. As far as level of competition, SEC baseball is close to SEC football. I think the reason so many people were frustrated with Stansbury is because SEC basketball has around 8 programs that are consistently WEAK on a national scale and he would have us losing to those teams on a consistent basis. Not to mention the off-court circus.

I must agree that we seem snakebit though. But even if we'd avoided the injury bug, we would be an average to below average baseball team in the SEC.

A few are...

Polk #2 down fall was hiring who he did on the pitching end...in 7yrs he had 2 bad yrs his 1'st which wasn't his doing and the last which was(pitching)...5 reg,a Super Reg host,a CWS...42,35,42,37,38 win wins that isn't elite but sure the heck isn't bad!Most of those teams could hit and field just could not pitch....now we can't hit,can't field,pitching is still avg,and bullpen is bad so much so that we have ran a AA closer into the ground.....Polk's down fall was the pitching coach and the handling on that end..he had 5 of his class ranked during those yrs....Cohen down fall is going to be dang near every focal point there is in baseball...and he's had 3 class ranked including his 1'st class that was #3 and had 11 HS signees in it..6 didn't last long on campus(2 got drafted elsewhere),2 haven't played much at all and came to campus hurt(Bricewell and Watson),1 has been awful(Girodo),2 have been up and down till this yr(Stratton and Graveman)...this is the same HS class that had a few including the ones trying to throw off blame from Cohen...that will have us battling upper level in the SEC by 2011 and should be no excuse for it if we are not.

Polk's time was up but what we got hasn't been even as good as Polk #2....