I understand the hitting philosophy and the take sign. What I do not understand is that when it is proven to NOT WORK in your favor, why do you still enforce it? Personally, I think Polk is just that stubborn and hard headed. I know that the man wrote the book on baseball but times change. The fundamentals are still the same, hit the ball, throw the ball, and catch the ball, but the process in which you do those things sometimes change - especially hitting techniques/styles. Pitchers change all the time and a batter must learn to adjust! If Polk has so little confidence in his players that he has to tell them what to do on every single pitch....well, that may say more about our program than anything.
I love what RP did for us but other schools are leaving us behind. We are the USC, Bama, Michigan, Oklahoma, etc of baseball in that we have unlimited sources, a GIANT stadium, a tradition spanning 30+ years, et al. I simply do not understand how RP feels that the NCAA is the enemy when his peers in the SEC are starting to routinely kick our booty on spring weekends.
By the way, McMahon had us in a super regional with his own players and he won the SEC tourney with his own players in 2001. Polk doesn't have any of Mc's players now and this is his 4th season back. So why are we struggling in 2005?
You know, this isn't just about this year, one game, or one SEC series. This is about RP's last championship, of any sort, coming in 1989. You say that those players were RP's players. Well it was McMahon that won the championship with them. Polk couldn't/didn't do it with his players so perhaps it is the coach, and not the players, after all?
P.S. I'm not responsible for any spelling errors or omissions in my post.
See everyone over on Gene O Tool's board were complaining about Polk about doing this and that, but Mac was able to do twice as much............yeah with Polk's damn players. 
A program of our caliber should be embarassed and consider the seasons under Polk since he returned as intolerable. God bless him, give him another watch, put his name on something else, but get him out of there!
It's totally uncalled for with the resources we have 
