The following excerpt from yesterday's CWS media day reflects just one of the many reasons why I have the utmost respect for Coach Ron Polk:
“It’s a shame we had some NCAA people up here, but not one coach speaking on the state of baseball...I’m not going to spend a lot of time on that other than to say as an example of a gentleman from the NCAA saying that baseball players as a whole are not being eligible in the fall as much as football, basketball and some other sports. I say, well, duh, how dumb a statement is that? When our kids are on books scholarships or 10 percent or 15 percent, and they’ve got to pay the balance of the fee to go, and football and basketball and all girls sports are on full scholarships, and they can go to summer school–well how stupid of a statement is that? When they say those things, I know I’ve got the support of all the baseball coaches and all the kids in this country and all their parents and friends when I say what the NCAA does to college baseball is criminal.â€Â
Keep fighting the good fight, Coach.
“It’s a shame we had some NCAA people up here, but not one coach speaking on the state of baseball...I’m not going to spend a lot of time on that other than to say as an example of a gentleman from the NCAA saying that baseball players as a whole are not being eligible in the fall as much as football, basketball and some other sports. I say, well, duh, how dumb a statement is that? When our kids are on books scholarships or 10 percent or 15 percent, and they’ve got to pay the balance of the fee to go, and football and basketball and all girls sports are on full scholarships, and they can go to summer school–well how stupid of a statement is that? When they say those things, I know I’ve got the support of all the baseball coaches and all the kids in this country and all their parents and friends when I say what the NCAA does to college baseball is criminal.â€Â
Keep fighting the good fight, Coach.
