Wow, amazing how far we've fallen in baseball...

[maroonmania]

just since the McMahon era. I was doing a little comparison and saw that under McMahon's 4 years we were

63-52 overall in the SEC
1 SEC tournament title
3 of his 4 years ended in either the CWS(1) or a Super Regional(2)
Made the regionals all 4 years

Now compare that with Polk's 7 years where we are

91-110 overall in the SEC (could be worse after this weekend)
1 SEC tournament title
Only 1 year ended in either the CWS(1) or a Super Regional(0)
Made the regionals only 4 of the 7 years

Boy, I'll tell you, without that five game very unexpected run to the CWS last year, Polk's second tour with us would have to be considered extremely dismal by any former MSU standards. And if I remember correctly at the time, there were a lot of MSU fans somewhat disgruntled with Mac at the end of his tenure which I believe helped motivate him to go ahead and take the Florida job when offered. Personally, I believe the last 6+ years have been pretty much wasted and I would have much preferred if we had done a proper search after Mac left and brought in someone at that time (such as a Manieri) that was ready and hungry to build a top notch program. Certainly going to be interesting to see who we end up with as the HC now. An extremely critical hire to the future of the program for sure. May be our last chance to bring back excellence before we just become another footnote program in the landscape of college baseball.

 

[8dog]

These last 7 years have been a disaster. We couldn't have made a worse hire.

 

[Stormrider81]

We missed in 2002 and then made every one until this year. If I remember correctly we were the last at-large team taken in 2004.

 

[maroonmania]

we sat home in 2006 as well.

 

[8dog]

we played in the Clemson regional in 06.

Edited: The media guide does recognize that we played in Clemson in 06

 

[jackiesux]

I've defended Polk as long as I could...I agree that it is past time. And I hate to say that. It pains me to say that. And I wish I could only remember the goo times he gave us. But this year stinketh.

 

[maroonmania]

it didn't mark us as going and since we were only 12-17 in the league that year I didn't question it. A lot of the years with regionals tend to run together with me since we rarely ever play them at the Dude anymore.

 

[Todd4State]

I just got the feeling that a lot of the fans never quite accepted him, even though he was annointed by Polk. I never thought he was a bad coach, but back during his tenure, you would read things on GP about how Polk would or wouldn't have done certain things that Pat was or wasn't doing.

Personally, I wasn't all that wild about him, but I thought he was a pretty good coach, and I never really complained about him too much just out of respect for Polk. We were still doing relatively well under him, and the crazy thing is that when he finally sort of won a lot of the fanbase over by winning the SEC Tournament in 2001, he left. When he did leave, I was kind of surprised even though we all heard about his reasons- wanting to be closer to family and all that. I thought that the silver lining in him leaving would be that we could bring in someone like Manieri to help take us to the next level, but we <17> that up royally.</p>

 

[Stormrider81]

As I remember it we were a 3 seed at Texas Tech and promptly went 0-2. That was the year we literally got in on name alone.

 

[maroonmania]

at the MSU athletics site. On p.82 under all-time coaching records they left off any indication of NCAA post-season play for 2006. That's where I pulled my info from.

 

[wpnetdawg]

I actually think we got in with relative ease that year. I remember that year fairly well and I don't remember sweating that one out at all. We finished the year in Warren Nolan RPI at #33, but I think going into the regional, we were #28 or so and finished by winning 5 of 6 conference games. We went 1-2 at the Atlanta regional beating a Robby Goodson-led Jacksonville State team and losing twice to Texas Tech.

2006, on the other hand, was a different story.

Edited to add: Boyd, in his last projection, had us in the tournament. I looked it up out of boredom.