By JOEL COLEMAN
sports@starkvilledailynews.com
As a senior baseball player at Mississippi State over a quarter-century ago, John Cohen was waiting out a rain delay in Auburn. Up to Cohen walked a fellow student, a small-framed sports information guy by the name of Scott Stricklin, who posed Cohen a question about his future.
“He said, ‘Hey, John, what do you want to do? What’s next for you?’” Cohen said. “I told him I’d love to play professional baseball. I’d love to make it to the big leagues one day, but I would love to be an athletic director.