re: Athletic program goals and coaches at LSU

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There's a big difference between expecting something and considering the season a failure when it doesn't happen

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This season wasn't a failure; we won the SEC tourney and hosted a regional. It's just not a "success", not when you consider our past standard. Wasn't this the first regional we hosted and didn't make it to the super regional round? If not, it's on a very short list. (just looked it up, it's the 2nd).

Going back to 1986, this season (postseason):

is ahead of 1988, 2006, 2007, and 2011- those seasons didn't get into postseason at all.

is ahead of 2010, where they went 1-2 at another regional.

Is even with 2005, where they went 2-2 and Rice took our regional.

Is behind all other seasons-
before super-regional play, we at least made the finals of the regional (which is the equivalent of making the super-regional round). That happened twice with Fullerton, here in BR. All other seasons with only regionals, we made the CWS (10 seasons).

since the super-regional round came into existance (1999), we've advanced to the super regional round 10 seasons.

Cliff notes- since 1986, we've had 28 seasons. We've had 20 seasons that were clearly better than this year, 2 more that you can make a valid argument were better, 2 about on the same level, and 4 that were clearly worse.

That may not be failure, but it isn't success either