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re: anybody know what ron polk is doing
Posted on 12/13/12 at 12:53 pm to GTHTSUN
Posted on 12/13/12 at 12:53 pm to GTHTSUN
Yeah, but I believe there was another issue that ultimately caused him to rebel. I remember reading about it in the dispatch. I just don't remember exact details. It had something to do with percentage scholarships. :googlesearched:
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It was Polk's love of his players, combined with his lifelong battle against the NCAA continually restricting baseball in every conceivable way, starting with 11.7 scholarships per year and no graduate assistant coaches allowed, that led Polk to retire as a head coach for good at the end of the ’08 season. He had retired a couple of times before. But when the NCAA Board of Directors passed even more restrictive legislation in January ’08, such as limiting roster size to 27 players receiving scholarship aid and insisting walk-ons who transfer to another school must sit out a year, Polk knew his fight with the NCAA was done. Before the vote, he had mailed an 18-page typewritten letter, pleading his case to anyone who had anything to do with college baseball. Polk says he was told members of the NCAA Board of Directors didn't read the letter, because they found it too long. "I'm writing this letter, typing all the envelopes and I said, 'What am I doing this for?' " Polk recalls. "It was my last hurrah to see if I can save the sport from this evil organization." But you knew that Polk couldn’t stay away from the game. So when UAB’s Shoop, who was an assistant for Polk at State from 1983-89, offered him a job as an unpaid volunteer assistant before the ’09 season, Polk jumped at the chance. “I enjoy making suggestions, I don’t have to make decisions anymore,” Polk says. “It’s a nice change of pace to play teams and go places I’ve never been. I work with a classy Christian coaching staff and we recruit quality kids. “I’m having a ball not being a headliner. I’m just a volunteer coach who puts on a uniform and gets to work with the kids. That’s really what it’s all about.”
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Posted on 12/13/12 at 1:50 pm to slidog
He was "rebelling" for 20 years against Title IX - ever since MSU was the first to show college baseball with potential to be a revenue-generating sport. He felt like the sports making the money shouldn't be saddled identically to those that aren't scholarship-wise(he has a point). In his second stint at MSU, he because 100% obsessed about fighting the NCAA over this - as well as lottery scholarships(which really is a huge, huge disadvantage to MSU/OM). He quit recruiting and basically let the program go in order to wage his private war. Still did OK for awhile because the program reputation sold itself, but even that eventually crashed and burned when Ole Miss got serious about baseball and started taking all the players that had traditionally gone to MSU without really having to be recruited.
He's a volunteer assistant at UAB now with former player Brian Shoop - and that's exactly where he wants to be. He "could" take almost any job he wanted, but he's all about the game in it's purest form... Dude is basically married to baseball(never has been IRL). He still has a home in Starkville and office at MSU, and he comes back weekly.
He's a volunteer assistant at UAB now with former player Brian Shoop - and that's exactly where he wants to be. He "could" take almost any job he wanted, but he's all about the game in it's purest form... Dude is basically married to baseball(never has been IRL). He still has a home in Starkville and office at MSU, and he comes back weekly.
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