re: One more baseball post then I move on...Smoke Laval

Smoke started strong but used the Bertman method of recruiting by reputation which didn’t last long. Had a solid staff early on I felt like and the wins came but the Omaha coaching wasn’t there. He knew baseball more than most but got lazy and didn’t exactly have the healthiest of lifestyles. Towards the end he was rarely seen in the dugout. Not to say he wasn’t there but he didn’t move enough to be seen which made people question his effort. He didn’t have the intangibles that a program needs to be successful. It’s not all baseball knowledge. His last few recruiting classes just weren’t great.