LSU Baseball had a GREAT 2015 and CPM deserves respect and credit!!

We finally won a game in Omaha at the new ballpark, awesome! It took us four games but we finally got the big win. Unfortunately, we couldn't build on that momentum from Tuesday and the season ended last night.

I am proud of our Tigers. They just finished their season 54-12, an amazing record for a team most people expected to be good not great in 2015. Admit it, there were several surprises this season including:

- 130 Stolen bases, 38 from Bregman alone (3 others had 23 or more)
- #2 Overall Seed in the Post-Season
- Chris Chinea hitting like a demon possessed and finishing the season leading the team with 11 HRs and 58 RBIs
- Jared Foster hitting bombs during SEC play and becoming the STARTING 2B.
- Alex Lange becoming the NEXT big thing in Baton Rouge
- LSU finishing the season with a .314 Team BA, one of the best in the country
- LSU hit their way through SEC play winning the overall title with a 21-8 SEC record
- Jesse Stallings and Doug Norman giving us hope for the bullpen's future
- Jake Latz and Jake Godfrey being all but non-existent in 2015 when most expected them to be in the rotation. (Just wait until they start in 2016)

Yet, we lose in Omaha early and without a title and some fans just see it as a bad season. I have ever heard people call for CPM's head and what not. Uh?

Outside of the first season with LSU, with a team full of Smoke's leftovers, Coach Paul brought in a load of young kids that would lay the ground work for years to come. Smoke ran us into the ground and he brought us back to life in one year.

His first recruiting class eventually led to his one and only CWS Title in 2009. He brought in Blake Dean, Ryan Schimpf, Jared Mitchell (convinced him to go baseball full time over football), Sean Ochinko, and Paul Bertuccini. He then brought in Leon Landry, DJ LeMahieu, Anthony Ranaudo, and Micah Gibbs.

In 9 seasons, he has never dropped below .500 and has won 54 or more games, three times. He has won 414 and lost only 161 with three ties. That in itself is amazing!

It is very hard to win a CWS title these days simply because college baseball doesn't get the funding that basketball and football does outside of LSU and the SEC. The scholarships are always being cut back and MLB can still steal kids out of high school. Yet somehow, CPM has these kids winning, year after year.

LSU didn't win a title in 2015 after such a great run. This shouldn't be the tagline of a great season rather motivation to come back stronger in 2016.

Cut the guy some slack and appreciate what we have before he retires and then we begin the USCe epic collapse under new management. Then the fans might really lose their minds.

Coach K gets credit for being one of the best of all time yet prior to 2010, he led them to the Final Four 10 times with only 3 titles. Give CPM time and things will happen. Trust me