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anybody know what ron polk is doing
Posted on 12/13/12 at 8:14 am
Posted on 12/13/12 at 8:14 am
these days? old mississippi state coach.where he living? camps?
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Posted on 12/13/12 at 8:18 am to lsu7171
Don't know. But the man is a legend.
Coach RP put SEC baseball on the map. Laid the foundation for success.
ETA: probably should move this to the MSU board.
Coach RP put SEC baseball on the map. Laid the foundation for success.
ETA: probably should move this to the MSU board.
This post was edited on 12/13/12 at 8:19 am
Posted on 12/13/12 at 8:18 am to lsu7171
He is hanging out with cajunjj.
Posted on 12/13/12 at 8:19 am to Barry Badrinath
He coached at Georgia too, right?
Posted on 12/13/12 at 8:19 am to Barry Badrinath
He was helping one of his former players college teams, kind of like a vol asst.
I thinked they played MSU last year in a regional.
I thinked they played MSU last year in a regional.
Posted on 12/13/12 at 8:21 am to TT9
Correct, then came back to msu
This post was edited on 12/13/12 at 8:21 am
Posted on 12/13/12 at 8:21 am to lsu7171
He is a volunteer assistant at UAB now
Posted on 12/13/12 at 8:25 am to genro
THANKS GENRO.
Posted on 12/13/12 at 12:10 pm to lsu7171
Last I heard he was an asst at UAB. The way his career ended at State was heartbreaking for fans of MSU baseball. The man was a legend and he did alot for the University and NCAA baseball in general. But, it was time for him to go and he went out kicking and screaming like an obese family being removed from a Chinese buffet.
His problem is that he thinks too highly of himself. The way he went about trying to get Tommy Raffo to become his replacement was all wrong. He went on an all out smear campaign against his former player, John Cohen, to try and get his way. His legacy at MSU will forever be tarnished because of this.
Aside from all of his craziness he is one of the greatest baseball minds ever. If you ever decide to coach baseball at any level you need to get his book. It is a coach's bible. It is the most in depth book about the fundamentals of baseball out there.
His problem is that he thinks too highly of himself. The way he went about trying to get Tommy Raffo to become his replacement was all wrong. He went on an all out smear campaign against his former player, John Cohen, to try and get his way. His legacy at MSU will forever be tarnished because of this.
Aside from all of his craziness he is one of the greatest baseball minds ever. If you ever decide to coach baseball at any level you need to get his book. It is a coach's bible. It is the most in depth book about the fundamentals of baseball out there.
This post was edited on 12/13/12 at 12:24 pm
Posted on 12/13/12 at 12:13 pm to GTHTSUN
Being an unpaid assistant for one of his former players whose now a coach... damn. Will no one hire him or does he just want to be semi-retired?
Posted on 12/13/12 at 12:17 pm to genro
Read my post again and that will give you a little insight in to why no one will hire him as a HC again. He got all entitled and shite like he was supposed to be able to name his successor without question. He started a big shite storm about it and went out looking like a child.
Posted on 12/13/12 at 12:24 pm to GTHTSUN
I could be mistaken. But, I believe he had a big problem with the way the NCAA changed the scholarship rules. He wanted no part of that. This was one of the biggest reasons he stepped down and didn't pursue a HC gig elsewhere.
Posted on 12/13/12 at 12:30 pm to GTHTSUN
I read your post, but shite, someone would hire him if he wanted. Some little school somewhere at least.
Posted on 12/13/12 at 12:43 pm to genro
Someone would for sure but the ones that would hire him he wouldn't go to. I feel like he would see that as a slap in the face to go to a lesser program.
He would be one hell of a HS coach somewhere but I don't think he would ever do it.
He would be one hell of a HS coach somewhere but I don't think he would ever do it.
Posted on 12/13/12 at 12:45 pm to slidog
He hated Title IX and felt that it was BS for the money making programs to suffer because of the ones that lose money.
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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Posted on 12/13/12 at 1:58 pm to engie
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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.
A very close person to me delivered to his house way back when. He told me that Coach Polk had a recliner in the middle of the living room and a TV on the floor. That is all.
Posted on 12/13/12 at 2:00 pm to engie
Still can't adequately convey the extent to which Polk hurt and split the fanbase in the way he left. It's been 5 years now, and the fanbase still isn't fully reunited under Cohen - although it's getting alot closer now that we are back to winning and ALMOST back to the elite level that we expect.
Polk's feelings have subsided - since Raffo got the Arkansas St job and has done well there and MSU has moved on to have success under Cohen. But he will never fully support MSU under Cohen because he disagrees with Cohen's processing of players and his managing style. Without Polk's 100% stamp of approval, there will always be some division there within our fanbase.
Polk's feelings have subsided - since Raffo got the Arkansas St job and has done well there and MSU has moved on to have success under Cohen. But he will never fully support MSU under Cohen because he disagrees with Cohen's processing of players and his managing style. Without Polk's 100% stamp of approval, there will always be some division there within our fanbase.
Posted on 12/13/12 at 2:32 pm to engie
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anybody know what ron polk is doing
At this moment ? Probably a Philipino boy in his early teens
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