I do not know if I would go that far. I think Mingione sucks and all just like the next guy, but I do not think we recruited any differently under Burroughs. It seems to me we just had some tweener years between the 2010 class and the 2013 class where we did not get as good of signees. And predictably, after the CWS run, our recruiting has sky-rocketed. It is also obvious that Cohen realizes he has to go after the high draft picks, whereas before he did not.Seems Lane Burroughs trusted his eyes -- and Mingione trusted Kendall Rogers and the other guys in Atlanta.
I think you forget how bad year 1 and 2 were for Cohen. This won't be his worst team.
If you follow the party line that the first 2 years weren't on Cohen , then Yes , this might be his worst team since being at MSU. If you can't hold the first 2 years against him, then you can't use them in his defense. I'm ok with not blaming him for how bad We were his first 2 years , but then you can't use those 2 years to say this isn't his worst team. You can't have it both ways. Either he is responsible for the first 2 years or he is not which makes this his worst team.
I think it's very fair to say the first 2 years were on Polk. He decimated our baseball roster. I'm about as harsh a critic of Cohen as there is, but I can't blame him for that. And we're going to have up years and down years. But in year 7, there's no excuse for the downs to be this low.
Considering we've been in the easy part of our SEC schedule these first 3 weeks, it's not likely to get much better. The teams we've played are 5-13 in their other SEC games and 6-3 against us. Plus 4 of our remaining 7 series are on the road.
I've never used the party line that the first 2 years were not his responsibility. Did those 2 years not count against his record? Was he not the head coach? You're the one who made the ridiculous claim that this is his worst team. You didn't say this is his worst team since year 2.