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Interesting Info From Swan's Page About Cohen And The Players |
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Posts: 2605 05/10/09 06:37 PM Eternal Pessimist |
Seeing how the thread is locked, it must be true.
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Posts: 346 05/10/09 09:02 PM |
And if Powers went "Sprewell" on Cohen I doubt if he would have been anywhere near the team afterwards. Total BS whining from some lover of
"that's baseball".
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Posts: 1787 05/10/09 09:04 PM |
SolidDog wrote: Exactly. KY players liked the guy and the KY fans sure hated to see them go. Cohen is more of a hardass than Polk... but who isn't? Powers may have been called out but I don't believe a freakin word of him calling someone a stupid MFer and I don't believe a damn word that he is trotting pitchers out there with injured arms to pitch. There are some serious sour grapes there somewhere where someone didn't get the coddling they are used to and they are threatening to take their ball and go home. |
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Mutt the Hoople |
I think it's Polkester Croom fans.... | #23 | ||||
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Posts: 1265 05/10/09 09:05 PM King of Pointless Knowledge
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...they like quietly losing, getting patted on the head and told "good boy, now go run and play", and not having to go to hoover every year. Cohen
is messing their perfect world up.
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RaiderDawg24 |
I don't blame Cohen | #24 | ||||
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Posts: 334 05/10/09 09:31 PM |
Ryan Powers is awful. He is only hitting .278 and that is 40 points higher than last year. He has more strikeouts than games played. I am surprised Cohen only
called him that. After sitting through 3 games this year in person, I have called that worthless waste of a 1/4 scholarship a hell of a lot worse. According
to friends that have dealt with Powers in person, Cohen has him pegged if he called him a stupid M'f. I hope Cohen continues to relentlessly cuss these
mentally weak Polk leftover candy asses, runs them out of here and into Stuart Smalley self-motivation classes to rebuild their self esteem. Cut day can't
come fast enough for about 90% of this team.
R Powers is not quite to Bunky or Michael Rutledge awful, but he is this season's closest equivalent. Go back to NY. |
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DynamicDawg |
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Posts: 640 05/10/09 09:45 PM |
There are consequences for everything we do. Good or bad.
It doesn't matter if these guys are the worse players to ever be associated with the game of baseball. There are consequences for the things we say and do to people. I'm shocked and disappointed that so many of you feel that it is okay to mistreat "lesser" people. Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised. This is Mississippi after all. There are consequences for this guys. Consequences. |
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goldenwavedawg |
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Posts: 55 05/10/09 09:57 PM |
Division II talent is to move to Cleveland.
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RaiderDawg24 |
There are consequences for being an idiot as well | #27 | ||||
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Posts: 335 05/10/09 10:03 PM |
People may call you a stupid m'f if you are one. That's life. My boss calls me a dumb ass when I do stupid things. You know what, at the time I
deserved it. Knowing what I know about Powers, he probably deserved it as well. You don't whine about it. You either don't do stupid things, learn to
deal with it, or leave. You don't tell your coach you will kill him for calling you a name.
I don't know if the story is true, but if Powers can't deal with getting cussed, he couldn't have made it on my elementary school basketball team. |
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I will say that I find it ironic | #28 | ||||
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Posts: 4909 05/10/09 10:10 PM |
that these players who can't deal with being cussed at and talk about how wrong being cussed at is, choose to deal with it through physical violence. Or at
least they claim they will. I'm betting that at least 96% of these players and their parents would want no part of Cohen. I bet John hates to lose a
fistfight as much as he does a baseball game.
And I'll go on record as saying that I wouldn't want to fight Cohen. Personally, I would have dealt with it by being a smartass. "Because just being good kids who make good grades isn't good enough anymore."- John Cohen
"This league doesn't care how hard you try. This league cares about having real players who can perform certain skills. If you try to throw a fastball in and you miss the middle of the plate, the league doesn't care that you're a really good kid. The game says you better execute the pitch." - John Cohen |
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Bulldog Backer |
I have heard... | #29 | ||||
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Posts: 709 05/10/09 10:13 PM |
RaiderDawg24 wrote:...that about half of the current players with eligibility left will be gone before next season. Unless they start being MEN, they will be cut and scholarships lifted. I have heard that as few as 8-9 will be back. Polk was loved by everyone, but Polk babied them. To Polk they were "his boys." As a result, some of them got out of shape. Cohen tried to whip them into shape. Cohen demands accountability and some can't take it. For example, other than Grant Hogue, we had very little team speed. I predict you will see Cohen sign a few more players and we will have quite a few non-scholarship walk-ons. The other thing I heard was that, in the coaching staff's opinion, we had less than 9 SEC quality players on the roster. I back Cohen 100%. Ryan Powers would last about 15 minutes in the Marine Corps. |
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Todd4State |
The staff was being wooly | #30 | ||||
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Posts: 4912 05/10/09 10:25 PM |
if they thought that nine of them were SEC caliber. I was thinking four-five.
"Because just being good kids who make good grades isn't good enough anymore."- John Cohen
"This league doesn't care how hard you try. This league cares about having real players who can perform certain skills. If you try to throw a fastball in and you miss the middle of the plate, the league doesn't care that you're a really good kid. The game says you better execute the pitch." - John Cohen |
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Posts: 2674 05/10/09 10:38 PM One Call, That's All
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ryan powers - you're f***ing out. -cohen
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Coach34 |
Yes there are consequences... | #32 | ||||
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Posts: 13223 05/10/09 10:52 PM Our KB21 |
when you cant play for the current coach, cant follow his instructions, and cant match the work ethic he is trying to instill, you get cut and have to go play
at a lower level....
After all the success that John Cohen has had, and coaching at all the places he has coached- this being his 3rd SEC team- do you really believe he is suddenly Satan and is mistreating these poor young fellows? He went thru his 1st season in Kentucky when he had players even worse than what he currently has- yet people at Kentucky loved him. I've seen this before because I went through it myself as a coach- you come in and completely change the mentality of the former regime. Some guys get it, some guys dont. You have a little more bitching going on right now because of losing and a down talent level. We have coaches in football and baseball that have won SEC titles and national championships recently- coincidentally, they appear to coach in the same manner- in your face, high intensity, work your ass off mentality...some of our players and alot of our fans need to quit being such whiny, holyier than thou hypocrites and get with the program.
Stansbury is 17-44 against the top 25, and 51-82 overall against the top 50...I rest my case (numbers compliments of ScoobaDawg)
"The best proven coordinator out there from a big school and the best head coach from a non-BCS program would not give MSU the time of day." - Willie Cunningham...a k a Ol Blew...a k a irsdawg" - October 22nd, 2008 |
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Bulldog Backer |
I said "less than 9..." | #33 | ||||
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Posts: 710 05/10/09 10:58 PM |
Todd4State wrote: ...Todd, but your 4-5 is much closer. Can you reconcile how "Jet" Butler was ever named "Jet?" |
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HD6 |
Full of win. | #34 | ||||
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Posts: 1928 05/10/09 11:23 PM The General |
Cohen is a bulletproof tiger.
"Nothing on this earth is closer to the blood of Christ than the tears of a hooker." - Colin Krieger
"I never read the free board, only what gets over here. If the sixpack is worse, they need to be assassinated!"-mclark |
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Todd4State |
Because he stalls around the bases? | #35 | ||||
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Posts: 4913 05/10/09 11:34 PM |
and then crashes and burns at third base?
"Because just being good kids who make good grades isn't good enough anymore."- John Cohen
"This league doesn't care how hard you try. This league cares about having real players who can perform certain skills. If you try to throw a fastball in and you miss the middle of the plate, the league doesn't care that you're a really good kid. The game says you better execute the pitch." - John Cohen |
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Yeah, that's one reason... | #36 | ||||
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Posts: 711 05/11/09 05:24 AM |
Todd4State wrote: ...and one I hadn't thought about. |
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mental toughness | #37 | ||||
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Posts: 91 05/11/09 06:55 AM |
If a coach calls you a stupid MF then the only word out of your mouth should be "Yes Sir". It is called mental toughness. No backtalk, no
threatening a coach, no smartass comebacks. Simply "Yes Sir". Mental toughness. Sounds like Powers ain't got it.
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That post lost all validity | #38 | ||||
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Posts: 238 05/11/09 07:11 AM |
when he said that Powers was "going to kill him"
There is no way he would still be on the team let alone playing if he would have said that to a member of the coaching staff. 
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DynamicDawg |
Mental toughness. | #39 | ||||
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Posts: 642 05/11/09 08:03 AM |
bobbylabonte wrote:Does that apply to coaches or just to players? What about a coach who knows that his language is offensive and unproductive yet spouts it anyway? Does he lack mental toughness? Self-discipline? Maybe he's just a stupid MFer. What if he doesn't know that his behavior is counter-productive in this situation? Why doesn't he know? Why can't he choose to take a more effective approach? Does this prove that he's a stupid MFer? lol |
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MagnoliaHunter |
Just a note to everybody | #40 | ||||
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Posts: 119 05/11/09 08:06 AM |
When you are 13 and about 120lbs and you dad calls you a stupid MFer, the WRONG answer is "Well, its better than being a fat stupid MFer." 2 days
later when he quit beating my ass, I realized that.
"There are only three true sports: mountain climbing, bull fighting and auto racing; all the rest are games." - Ernest Hemingway |
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