re: How many National Titles does Jay Johnson win at LSU?

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As good as JJ is, and he's obviously the best coach in college baseball, winning the College World Series is incredibly hard to do. Especially in this day and age of NIL, transfer portal, etc. It is an absolute miracle Skip managed to win 5 in 10 years. I don't care how good of a coach you are, or how good your players are, it is a long daunting gauntlet to navigate the entire season, win the regional, win the super, and then beat the best 8 teams in the country remaining, including winning a best of 3 with the winning team of the other bracket. Absolutely amazing he's managed to do just that, 2 of the last 3 years. And, it's baseball. Anything can happen. Which makes LSUS' 59-0 season unfathomable. Impossible to do in baseball. Skip's era was a bit easier, due to numerous factors. One being that not nearly as many schools cared as much about baseball, or spent as much $. On the other hand Skip not only won 5 in 10 years, he was undefeated, 5-0, in National Championship games when a single game was played to determine the national champion. All that being said, JJ gets at least one more, maybe 2. If he keeps scaring away his competition like Vitello running away to the show, maybe he wins 10. Who knows. What I do know, is that this is going to be a hell of a ride every spring/summer as long as he's coaching the Fightin' Tigahs. Let's pray we make the right decision hiring our next HBC on the football side of it. We are LSU! We should be contending for an NC year round. Unfortunately, Mulkey probably won't be here very much longer. And I've been on record saying that I'd hire her today to coach the men's team.

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