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With the following comments from the Greg Ellis blog, Polk confirmed all our suspicions were true had Raffo been our coach. Raffo would have been a facade/shadow/quasi/two-headed monster with Polk serving as the real crime boss:

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<font face="Arial" color="#777777" size="2"><font face="Arial" color="#000" size="2">June 11, 2008 by Gregg Ellis</font>
<font color="#000">Greg Ellis: Can you describe your conversation with John Cohen prior to him taking the job?
Polk: I called and told him I loved him, but I said, "Please, please, please don't take the job, because my coaches won't have a job." He said it was his dream job, and I said it's Tommy's dream job too. But he knew by taking the job what was going to happen. Had Tommy gotten the job, I was going to stay around and run the players' alumni association, camps and oversee the sky suite program. With my own money, I was going to build an office next to his, not attached to his, but next to his. I would help with practice. Not run practice, but help him with what he needed. We talked about this beforehand, and he was agreeable to me staying around the program. Now, I can't, unless John will ask me to stay."
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Thank God for Greg Byrne and John Cohen !
 
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<font face="Arial" size="2">I was going to stay around and run the players' alumni association, camps and oversee the sky suite program.</font>
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<font face="Arial" size="2">" All of which probably would take up a whopping 10 minutes of each day leaving the majority of my day free to give tips on strategy, decide who we want to recruit when they come to our camps and keep firing off letters to the NCAA from my 1965 Pica-font Smith-Corona with the MSU letterhead on them."</font>
 
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I am so glad Raffo was not named the head coach.
Sounded like we never would have gotten rid of Polk.</p>
 
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After seeing the dropoff from Polk I to Polk II, I don't even want to think how bad Polk III would have been.</p>
 
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yet i will say again that i don't blame Raffo for Polk wanting this and don't blame Raffo for wanting the job. it simply would have been a bad choice.

it also makes me even more convinced that it is all about Polk all the time. since a lot of people didn't think Raffo was qualified by not having head coaching experience, I would imagine that this had crossed Polks mind. so there would be some tit-for-tat going on if he was hired..."i'll get you the job if you let me continue to run the place and eventually i will ride of into the sunset....eventually"
 
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the most qualified. In Polk's mind, he has spent years and years training Raffo for the job as head coach. He probably views himself as a truly exemplary coach that has painstakingly and methodically given Raffo the benefit of all his years of experience. Polk views Raffo as ready for the big job now. And he might be. That's just a chance that it appears our AD, and our fan base was unwilling to take.
 
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i hear ya but still think that the comments from polk that cohen could be the better coach, that he wished raffo had left for a few years to be a head coach, and that if raffo didn't work out he could have just been let go in 4 years show that even Polk knows Raffo was lacking some things.....which would afford polk some leverage if raffo had gotten the job from his endorsement. just my opinion of course. anyways, cohen won't have that problem.
 
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I don't think Polk cared, or even thought about, who was best for the job. In all that Polk has said, and he's said a lot, the one thing he hasn't said is that Raffo was the best qualified coach for the job. You keep trying to read excuses and reasons for Polk acting like he did and you're wasting your time. The mother<17>er is just plain batshit crazy.
 
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Polk cares about his assistants livelihood, I think he really felt that Cohen should have let Tommy have the job since Cohen was already a head coach. The bottom line in the end was Ron wanted what was best for Ron and Tommy and didn't give a rat's *** what was best for MSU. That is where the "bat **** crazy comes in." He thinks he is MSU baseball and what he wants should be good enough for the rest of us.
 
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man, it felt good to type something about Polk in the PAST tense- anyway, Polk only cared about himself. He's not stupid. He knew how most fans felt about Raffo. If he wanted him to succeed him, why didn't he announce it a couple of years ago like McMahon? The reality is he tried to use Raffo's career as a crutch to keep himself around. Raffo did go along with it, likely because no one starts out with a coaching job like MSU's. The only thing that they didn't count on was LT being gone to seal the deal. When it became obvious that we were going to have a bad season Polk bailed out and tried to sneak Raffo in while we were in a transition phase between University Pres. and AD's. If he is tired of coaching, why does he want to be a volunteer assistant somewhere?

His plan blew up, and he got pissed off about it. Raffo took a gamble and lost, and now is in seclusion, I guess.
 
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we will clean house. But I'm not 100% on that. We also supposedly were creating a new position of some kind.</p>
 
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because he told a friend he thinks he will still be here teaching and coching
 
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Todd4State said:
man, it felt good to type something about Polk in the PAST tense- anyway, Polk only cared about himself. He's not stupid. He knew how most fans felt about Raffo. If he wanted him to succeed him, why didn't he announce it a couple of years ago like McMahon? The reality is he tried to use Raffo's career as a crutch to keep himself around. Raffo did go along with it, likely because no one starts out with a coaching job like MSU's. The only thing that they didn't count on was LT being gone to seal the deal. When it became obvious that we were going to have a bad season Polk bailed out and tried to sneak Raffo in while we were in a transition phase between University Pres. and AD's. If he is tired of coaching, why does he want to be a volunteer assistant somewhere?

His plan blew up, and he got pissed off about it. Raffo took a gamble and lost, and now is in seclusion, I guess.
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well after watching the presser again.......it made me wonder if Polk chose Raffo over Cohen during their early coaching career when Cohen mentioned that Polk and LT had to beg Missouri to take him off their hands........maybe something happened back then..........and when the chance to return was there he told coach that this was his dream job and he(polk) wasnt going to keep him out of the jewell this time ....i dunno</p>
 
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When they finished at MSU, Raffo went straight into coaching (at MSU). Cohen played a year and a half of minor league ball and then decided to get into coaching. Polk got him the job at Missouri because he didn't have an opening on his staff at MSU.
 
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couldn't agree more. raffo was his chance to stay around and raffo wouldn't have been able to tell him no since he would "owe" him for the job.
 
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