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re: One more baseball post then I move on...Smoke Laval
Posted on 6/29/23 at 9:53 am to Jb1994
Posted on 6/29/23 at 9:53 am to Jb1994
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Made omaha twice but was 2 and q both times. Then missed the ncaa tournament the year after that.
He made the NCAAT the year after the second 0-2 CWS appearance. LSU was eliminated by Rice in the Regional.
LSU hosted regionals in his first 4 years as HC. They reached the Super Regionals in year 1, CWS in years 2 and 3, and Regionals in year 4.
By most objective metrics Smoke was a successful HC, Unfortunately for him, those metrics also included the fact he was replacing a guy who won 5 national championships in 10 years. At that time, anything short of playing for a National Championship was seen as disappointing. He had a bad year in 2006 and Skip pulled the plug because, I guess, he could see the program was trending downwards.
With Johnson winning the NC, the Smoke era will be viewed even more as the "forgotten era". But the reality is he wasn't that bad...just not good enough.
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Posted on 6/29/23 at 10:02 am to Alt26
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By most objective metrics Smoke was a successful HC, Unfortunately for him, those metrics also included the fact he was replacing a guy who won 5 national championships in 10 years. At that time, anything short of playing for a National Championship was seen as disappointing.
Yea he wasn’t a terrible coach at all and like everyone is saying, he replaced the greatest baseball coach of all time so it did t take much for fans to turn on him. I felt kinda bad for the guy to be honest. He was never going to live up to expectations at that time.
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