re: Tigers have reached the 40-win mark for the 7th time in coach Paul Mainieri's 9

LSU Under Mainieri (8 seasons)
SEC Tourney Only: 22-4 (.846)
NCAA Tourney Only: 28-12 (.700)
Total Postseason: 50-16 (.758)
2 SEC Champs, 5 SEC Tourney Champs, 6 NCAA Tourney appearances, 3 CWS apps, 1 National Title


Vanderbilt under Corbin (12 seasons)
SEC Tourney Only: 29-15 (.659)
NCAA Tourney Only: 39-23 (.629)
Total Postseason: 68-38 (.642)
3 SEC Champs, 1 SEC Tourney Champs, 10 NCAA tourney appearances, 2 CWS apps, 1 National Title





Since many, including myself, consider Tim Corbin to be one of the top coaches in the country and Vandy is fresh off their National Title, this seems like a fair comparison.

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Geauxrilla ball is gone, bruh. There haven't been ANY "intimidating" teams out there for years.

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Maybe....but I still think opposing teams are still somewhat intimidated by a compilation of the box/our fans/the team/the legacy of LSU. Now, maybe that intimidation wears off by Saturday night or Sunday afternoon (Fri/Sat nowadays) and we lose a game....but still.

Come on Ell this will help

2014-Last Regional to lower seed
2013-CWS 2 and done
2012 Lost Super to lower seed
2011 No post season
2010 Lost in regional to lower seed

That resume should intimidate anyone?? Hell I'd want to play LSU as a lower seed.

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2010 Lost in regional to lower seed

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We weren't good. Lost too much

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2011 No post season

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Shafted. But we weren't good. New bats killed us.

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2012 Lost Super to lower seed

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Good again. But still adjusting our team to fit new style of play. Caught in between. Young good pitching. Defense was terrible in the OF. Katz played CF a few games late. We were not better than SB.

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2013-CWS 2 and done

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Was our year. Had the pitching. Had the hitting. But PM's first visit to TDA was a disaster. Poor Raph and Bregman.

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2014-Last Regional to lower seed

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Again, lost too much from 2013. We were a super team, but nothing more on paper. Got hot late while other teams fell apart. Lucky to get a top 8 seed.

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Pawl has accomplished way less than Miles

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that's actually debatable. Or does his record prior to LSU not count for anything? Even at LSU, Mainieri has an equal number of conference titles (not even counting SECT titles) and national titles as Les. If you throw in his numbers at Notre Dame, Mainieri has 6 conference regular seasons titles, 10 tournament titles, 4 CWS appearances, and 3 national coach of the year awards. He set an LSU record for wins in a season. Mainieri also had to build back up a program, while Miles had to maintain one 2 years removed from a national championship and a stacked roster. So when you say he's accomplished WAY less than Miles, you're either ignorant or intentionally exaggerating for effect. And if you want to say SEC football is more competitive than SEC baseball, I'll just tell you you're wrong because it's not.

Tim Corbin (who was one several coaches who turned down the LSU baseball HC job that PM had the balls to take, knowing full well he'd have to endure the sort of entitled and unreasonable fandom on full display in this thread) would have likely been run outta town by LSU fans before he could get a natty had he accepted the LSU job. Ditto the others (Tanner, Bianco, etc) who turned down the job as well.

I am going to reply to you with civility assuming you must be new to LSU baseball.

Skip Bertman has probably given over a hundred interviews and in game comments commenting on the coaches who turned down the LSU coaching job because they couldn't handle the pressure. 100 may be understating it.

The Tiger Rant had lots of visitors from Vandy and Ole Miss laughing at LSU because we couldn't hire a coach. And the LSU salary was going to be almost twice what those guys were making at thier current jobs.

Only a Johnny come lately wouldn't know how hard it was for Skip to hire a baseball coach after Smoke was fired.

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Are we talking record or omaha now?

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it was a simple question that you dodged. No team is going to have consistent fan support if they don't keep a winning product on the field. Therefore, attendance is NOT the return like you are trying to make it out to be. You have to have a good product first. Right now, lsu's postseason results over the last 5 years don't match the stature of the program nor that of 10 other programs.

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You think we have an attendance problem?

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you are doing everything you can to obfuscate a facile issue. Attendance is only 1 aspect of the program and it's not the 1 I'm primarily referring to.

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We can look at 6 years and it's different... we can look at 3 years and it's different... we can look at 9 years and it's different. You pick 5 because it suits your argument whereas all the others wouldn't.

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yes, trends are fluid. And I'm allowing for that. Mainieri brought lsu a title which is awesome. However my point all along has been that it is becoming a distant memory in comparison to the other 10 programs I listed. And yes, if he makes it this year then his situation is much more tenable, because it's a trend!

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You really want us to be like KY fans?

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everyone seems to understand the analogy except for you. Did you read the thread? Perhaps you should do that before criticizing.

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Total Postseason: 50-16 (.758)

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this is impressive but overshadowed by his omaha performance lately, stony brook and Houston.

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entitled and unreasonable fandom on full display in this thread

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I hope you're not referring to me because my point is not unreasonable at all. Or do you think it's ok that lsu is at the forefront of basically every aspect of college baseball but has been outdone in omaha by 10 other programs over 5 years? To me, that's an objective disappointment