Buy/Sell

[patdog]

After reading about the examples of Polk refusing to even look at good recruits (like Connor Gillespie or the pitcher from East Central this year) and using the excuse that he didn't have scholarship room, I started wondering if maybe Polk intentionally didn't sign those type of players so he could prove his point that the NCAA scholarship limits are too restrictive. I know it sounds crazy, but I'm not so sure that Polk wouldn't rather be right than have MSU be the best baseball program it can be.

So, buy/sell: Polk intentionally recruited poorly to prove his point about scholarship limitations.

I'm not quite buying, but I'm damn close to it.

 

[8dog]

Sell, but its shocking that I at least took 10 seconds to even consider it.

 

[patdog]

I don't think he actually intentionally recruited poorly, but I do think that subconsiously he may have backed off of some of these players because he knew that if he won too much at MSU, it would torpedo his bitching about the scholarship limits. Bulldog Bruce has told us a few times that Polk had no problem lying to recruits about their scholarships in the past. And I know for a fact that Polk cut scholarships in the 1980's because it happened to a guy I knew from back home. He came to MSU on a partial scholarship, redshirted a year then played very little the next year. Polk took his scholarship away. But now suddenly a player's scholarship is sacred and can't be cut to make room for a better player?

 

[8dog]

That makes sense b/c it follows the pattern that as Polk has gotten older, he has cared less and less about winning.