I didn't keep up with baseball recruiting in the old days. Is this what it was like?

[Goat Holder]

I didn't keep up with baseball recruiting in the old days. Is this what it was like?

We just straight got all the studs we wanted? I know we did in the '94 class, most of whom started immediately in '95. Amazing how terribly lazy Polk was and I'll admit, he had me fooled. I thought we were actually recruiting well. Silly me. Almost seems like these idiots were turning recruits off of us.

Bianco probably wishes he'd taken the LSU job now.

 

[8dog]

I didn't keep up with baseball recruiting in the old days. Is this what it was like?

b/c recruiting against Bianco and recruiting against Don Kessinger are two totally different things.

Im not sure how to compare it to old classes (other than the obvious Lee, Piatt, Dubose, Hauswald, Freeman class) b/c that was before the internet was really a factor.

 

[Goat Holder]

I didn't keep up with baseball recruiting in the old days. Is this what it was like?

esp. at Bishop Kenny, is that pipeline still available? Think that was Raffo's stomping grounds.

 

[HammerOfTheDogs]

I didn't keep up with baseball recruiting in the old days. Is this what it was like?

unlimited scholarships, Ron Polk's biggest competition for top baseball recruits was the Major Leagues. The other SEC schools were using baseball as a way for football assistants to make a little extra money in the spring. I remember 1985. Ron Polk was young, vibrant, and his baseball teams were exciting to watch. Jake Gibb's teams at Ole Miss seem almost anachronistic. Their players had to cover the field and do the maintenance, often between innings. Fast forward to 2008. ALL the SEC schools are now pursuing baseball as a money sport. Yet, now it was Ron Polk who looked so behind the times. Polk didn't try to adjust his recruiting when the NCAA started limiting scholarships, preferring to write long Unabomber rants that made great doorstops at NCAA headquarters...after bomb-dogs sniffed the package for explosives.

 

[Goat Holder]

I didn't keep up with baseball recruiting in the old days. Is this what it was like?

taking advantage when others aren't. But, that's also how the program is destroyed, ignoring it when others aren't.

 

[Todd4State]

I didn't keep up with baseball recruiting in the old days. Is this what it was like?

I think when Polk came back, for some reason he did three things:

1. He tried to turn our baseball program into social experiment on the evils of the NCAA.

2. He became arrogant and apparently thought that all the top players would come to "the camp" (that already sounds cultish), and then he could recruit them because they would want to play FOR HIM.

3. If you were a legit pro prospect and there was a smidgen of a chance that you were going pro, we weren't looking at you. You can't do that anymore.

Honestly, I wonder how anyone ever got a baseball scholarship to MSU under Polk.</p>

 

[fishwater99]

I didn't keep up with baseball recruiting in the old days. Is this what it was like?

Todd4State wrote:

Honestly, I wonder how anyone ever got a baseball scholarship to MSU under Polk.

You go to the baseball CAMP and kiss Polk's ***....

No CAMP this summer, what will MSU and John Cohen do?</p>