ESPN article on the best MCWS ever

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"To me, what makes a great College World Series is the whole picture," 85-year-old Skip Berman explained during the opening days of the 2023 edition, in town to support LSU, the program he pulled from the scrap heap to turn into a juggernaut, winning its first five titles as head coach. "You have the series that ended amazingly, like us in 1996 [see: Warren Morris walk-off homer barely clearing the right-field fence to beat Miami]. You have the years with some great games in the middle of the week. And you have a couple of really can't-miss players that you know will be Major League All-Stars. But as long as I've been coming here, since 1978 [as a Miami assistant], it's hard to remember one that had all of that the whole time."

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