Polk at the Dude today!
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Does he have any eligibility left? Can he hit? Maybe we can insert him into the lineup today. He can’t do any worse if he never gets a base hit.
Polk working for Cohen...that would be truly hilarious.
For some reason though, I don’t think we’d have to worry about his gnome-looking *** plugging the most junior female staff members in the Bryan Building. So, there’s that.
He spent pregame and first 3 innings or so standing in left field corner mostly by himself smoking a big See-gar. He posed for a few selfies and talked to some staff but mostly just watched by himself
Funny that you mentioned that. "Polk-Dement Stadium" is no longer on the outfield wall.
It was weird seeing him after all this time, but good.
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Even after all his antics when he left, I’ve still got mad respect for the man. He built our program and has dedicated his life to college baseball. I’m glad he came back and wish he would more often.
If we would have had some GA seating the poor old man wouldn't have had to stand for three innings. The poor thing had to work color for Jim just to have a place to sit down. ***
Guess Polk is OK with things now that Byrne is no longer the AD and Cohen is no longer the baseball coach.
Nope. He hung on WAY too long and drug our program down badly in the 2000s. He should have retired in 1992 or 1993 when he first tried to. Then with the fit he threw when we hired Cohen, he burned every bridge there was as far as I'm concerned.
Polk himself did not do this. He was simply doing what he thought was right, regardless whether or not you agreed. LT was the one that made the idiotic decision to bring him back. But then again, LT was just doing what he thought was necessary too. Goes on and on. I still blame LT more because he had a chance to make a great hire and didn't, while Polk was just Polk, at least he went to Omaha.
Polk did not want to come back. LT begged him. LT was freely telling people this at QB Clubs/etc back in the mid-2000s like it was some big accomplishment.
Interesting that Polk was only 53 when he retired the first time and 57 when we rehired him in back in 2001.
Many of our fans would be over the moon if we hired a 56 year old Corbin, yet I don't see anyone discussing the risk with hiring a guy who is already at that stage in his life. No way his best years are still ahead of him, similar to when we begged Polk to come back.
Many of our fans would be over the moon if we hired a 56 year old Corbin, yet I don't see anyone discussing the risk with hiring a guy who is already at that stage in his life. No way his best years are still ahead of him, similar to when we begged Polk to come back.
Augie Garrido was 56 or 57 when he left Fullerton to go to Texas. All he did there was win two more national championships and play for a third. It really depends on the person and what kind of fire they have. It is a risk. Did Augie stay too long at Texas - yes, but they got 15 great years out of him (followed by a several bad years too many).
As others have said in this thread, both LT and Polk knew he didn't have the fire anymore and should've known that someone who writes letters that are 15-page single-spaced with a manual typewriter was unwilling to adapt as the game changed. Someone as old as Corbin is not my preference because of the risk, but if someone his age can relate to kids enough to recruit at a high level and is a good fit it shouldn't be a dealbreaker.
I guess Polk misunderstood when he heard there was a new dude in Starkville that he needed to check out
A former baseball player said a security guard asked Coach Polk to put out his cigar. To which he replied, "This is my stadium."
Good for him. He wasn't bothering anybody down in the left field area. He should have told the security guard to go enforce the alcohol laws, and particularly the underage part, then get back to him when all that had been cleared up.
