one of the things he has gloated about with the whole Raffo for HC saga was that he recommended Perno, even though some have said he actually recommended Shoop for the UGA job. He also has talked about how Dooley did a National Search and how it didn't work- you kind of have to wonder if he didn't try to sabotage that as well- and how Perno has turned out to be a good coach.

Be that as it may, I find it funny that one thing Perno said that they did differently was change everything.

Had UGA won tonight, there is no doubt in my mind that Polk would have said something like "It's sad because that could be Tommy in a few years."

I'll tell you another thing that has pissed me off about Polk and his comments. He basically has tried to downplay how good the job is because "we don't have a lottery", and saying that Pat McMahon essentially took a better job. But trying to lower expectations is par for the course with Polk with his brilliant comments about "our fans put too much pressure on our players at home", "We're happy that our nice team made a Regional this year", and of course "It's not fair that UGA has the HOPE sholarship." I think the interest in our job alone has shot his "MSU is not all that great of a job" comments down a little.

I love Ron Polk and what he has done overall for our baseball program, but I am still highly pissed off that he has basically set our baseball program back almost 10 years including his seven year extended retirement party in order to try to meet his personal agenda, which is not really what's best for MSU.

he needs to keep his mouth shut.

Of course, maybe if he had a computer, he could actually get a clue.

I wanted Polk gone because that was what was best for our baseball program. I have said many, many times that we should promote the heck out of the Dugout Club while the iron is hot, that we should push for renovations and recruit nationally, among other things. I have also said that despite our good attendance compared to other schools that we should promote the games better because we can do better with our attendance, and I feel that it is especially important that we market the team to the student body because this is "their team" and they are the MSU baseball fans of the future. The midweek games in particular need to be geared towards the students and the weekends could be geared towards both alumni and students.

The other stuff you mentioned is non-sports related.