Buy/Sell...If Cohen turned us down, Raffo "is the man."
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....based on all the rumors swirling last week, along with the "Nobody thought he would take it" line of thinking on Cohen.
I think Raffo lost his chance with Polk's antics and Byrne wasn't going to take chances on an unproven coach in his first hire.
....I'm afraid we were dangerously close to that.
Unrelated sidenote: Imagine Polk's rage if we would've offered the job to an outsider.
Unrelated sidenote: Imagine Polk's rage if we would've offered the job to an outsider.
Even if Raffo would have been an equal way to go with say either a Steve Smith or a Buck Showalter, I'm not sure Byrne would have gone that direction because Raffo is SO tied to the hip of Ron Polk. I'm not sure Byrne for the good of the future of MSU baseball would have wanted Polk having THAT much influence over the new coach.</p>
Raffo was interviewed to keep Polk at bay during the process. That apparently didn't even work. It just seems to me, when you look at Raffo versus the names that were tossed around, that one of these things is not like the other ones.
It's quite obvious the program was mired in a power struggle and the nepotism wasn't just rampant, it was being flaunted in Byrne's face. That **** had to end, and that meant Raffo was not a real candidate.
It's quite obvious the program was mired in a power struggle and the nepotism wasn't just rampant, it was being flaunted in Byrne's face. That **** had to end, and that meant Raffo was not a real candidate.
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