re: Is Mainieri on the hot seat for next year?

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First off, you are proving my point and discrediting your own because those are paid attendance, not actual attendance, figures.Second, even assuming your point (that people vote with their feet and a decline would justify a move) is valid, let me ask you one simple question based on those numbers. If those numbers are relevant, then why did we only average 36 people more at games in 2000, when we won a National Championship, than in 2006, when Laval was fired?

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Actually, it proves both of my points, that 1) Manieri aint going anywhere when we're selling 10,000+ tickets a game and 2) Smoke was fired after three straight seasons of declining paid attendance (actual was probably even lower), especially when we were trying to build and fill up a new park. You can't just look at raw numbers, you have to look at the trends. College baseball has increased in popularity over the past decade, so the baseline is going to be going up. But, under Smoke, we were going the other way. Look what happened when we got a new park and a new coach. (3,000+ more/game, essentially revenue we were losing under Smoke)

And, for all the bitching and moaning about LSU, look what Florida did with all their talent--2 and a Q and eliminated by Kent State, which is arguably a worse team than Stony Brook. Baseball is a fickle game, which is why the two teams in the driver's seats in Omaha weren't even national seeds.