re: Bertman reminded Mainieri that “we’re not curing cancer here,”

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Smoke took over for one of the best coaches in the history of college baseball. Paul took over a program that had a losing SEC record. I’m not saying there aren’t issues but Paul is in the college baseball hall of fame and Smoke was fired by North Florida.

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Smoke never lost 53 games in a two year period either. He was also left with an atypical of Skip roster of renegades, JUCO’s assembled to try to give Skip a final hoorah.