Athletic program goals and coaches at LSU

If he claimed just being in the hint as his goal when arriving, then LSU has no one to blame but itself for hiring a mediocre AD.

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LSU should be in Omaha almost every year, IMO. Those are the expectations. Best recruiting, best stadium, best fans, best facilities. I think it's OK to expect that.

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+1

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just because you have top notch facilities

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And you have

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Best recruiting, best stadium, best fans

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You should be one of the best 8 teams in the country, ALMOST every year, IMO.

I agree, and I think they should. If they're doing great in all those things, why are they not successful?

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Reality is any program can put together a good baseball team depending on how guys gel together and play together.

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If they're not playing well together, who's fault is that? If the right players are not recruited, who's fault is that?

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Reality is any program can put together a good baseball team depending on how guys gel together and play together. It also depends on how your team is playing at the end of the year. It isn't always only about having the highest rated recruits. Just ask Stony Brook and Houston.

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People are always quick to discount the element of luck, which is at the very heart of the game of baseball.

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If the right players are not recruited, who's fault is that?

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I don't think you're understand the complexity here. You can't take the time to go watch every single kid in the entire country play a baseball game. LSU isn't go to take their limited amount of time to go watch a kid at small high school that is a RHP that tops out at 85. They are looking for the kids that throw 90 if they are right handed. That isn't their fault. It just isn't feasible to think that a kid that throws 83-85 is going to be highly recruited by LSU. He is going to be a better fit for UH or a smaller school like that. Check out the kid that threw against us in relief the other night. He wasn't lighting up the radar gun. That doesn't mean he can't be a damn good pitcher.

So yes, LSU can land a lot of big name recruits that are going to throw 93, but that doesn't always mean they are going to have the best baseball team. You can just as easily run up against a kid that is throwing 83-85, but is just good enough to beat you.

Baseball is way too complicated of a game to just say "We should be in Omaha every single year".

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"We should be in Omaha every single year".

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OK, I didn't say they should be in Omaha every single year. But can we at least agree that they should be better than they have been?

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OK, I didn't say they should be in Omaha every single year. But can we at least agree that they should be better than they have been?

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Ok you did say "almost". I did misread that.

Yes. I honestly don't think this LSU team was that great of a team. I never bash any of LSU's team or the players or the coaches on this website.

They got hot at the end of the year and played out of their minds to get to where they did. I don't think this was a National Championship caliber team.

It sucks that we lost in the Regionals, since we shouldn't have lost, but I still believe this team accomplished a lot. I hope that we have a beeter baseball team in 2015 and that they gel together at the right time and make a deep run.

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How about making the super regionals 3/5 years? Is that realistic enough?

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FWIW our baseball expectations should be: sec tourny/regionals every year. hosting 4/5 regionals and winning 4 out of the 5 regionals, then in supers id be ok with 1 or 2 trips to omaha in the 5 year cycles. we are failing at that right now.