re: John Cohen deserving for national coach of the year

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Only problem I can see with this is Cohen was also in charge of the worst team as well. Weren't they supposed to be a lot better last year, but he managed to underachieve and land them in last place. It would be different if he had just taken over for a different coach and brought them to first.

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Cohen was one of the few coaches that recruited to the changes in the game. He brought in small ball players and pitchers that catered to the small ball philosophy. He looked ahead of the game when he took us to the Championship series in 2013.

Fast forward and he didn't change his recruiting strategy in time to keep up with the changes in the bats and the ball, thus our last place finish last year. We were still playing small ball with terrible Adidas bats and got passed up pretty quickly.

He realized what was going on and basically overhauled an entire roster in one year. We now have several power bats and high velocity pitching instead of pitching to contact.

He is a great coach, and he deserves COTY.