I get it. John Cohen had the baseball program headed in the right direction, possibly even trending towards the Mississippi St. Bulldogs first team national championship. Taking him from the baseball team is worrisome. I understand everything all the worried Bulldog fans are saying.
But I still don’t buy it.
There certainly are question marks and areas where John Cohen will have to prove himself. But the same things that made John Cohen a successful baseball coach will likely make him a successful Athletics Director.
John Cohen knows how to think outside the box. If there was any doubt about this, he proved by taking one of the most unorthodox approaches to handling a pitching staff anyone has ever seen and riding it to the National Championship round in the College World Series.