For a brief moment, I thought Polk actually had a point:

[Woof Man Jack]

After listening to the Polk interview on the Nashville radio station, I thought he actually made a good point about naming his successor. Forget that he seemed like a Whitfield patient while making his argument, but his point that various head coach positions were filled by the outgoing coach's recommendation seemed pretty solid. Until I realized that the outgoing coach's recommendation <span style="text-decoration: underline;">was also the best choice for the school's future.</span> The fact that Cohen is a former MSU player, a former Polk guy, and a seemingly proven successful head baseball coach, easily makes him appear to be the best for the future of MSU. Without Cohen in the mix, I gotta think Raffo was a likely shoo-in for the job.

 

[patdog]

Usually when a long-time retiring coach gets to name his successor, he isn't coming off of a 7-year long losing conference record. If Polk had done in the past 7 years what he did throughout the 1980s, then I'd have been a lot more comfortable letting him name his successor.

 

[MSUCE99]

After listening to the Polk interview on the Nashville radio station, I thought he actually made a good point about naming his successor. Forget that he seemed like a Whitfield patient while making his argument, but his point that various head coach positions were filled by the outgoing coach's recommendation seemed pretty solid.

We already tried that the last time he retired. His recommendation didn't hang around much longer than our 4-star general University president. And in my book you're only entitled to one set of retirement privileges, no more.

So we tried something else this go-round.