re: How many Nattys would Bertman have won with all this talent lsu has had in baseball?

There is so much damn parity now in college baseball. And equipment has changed dramatically.

Its not even the same sport as it was in Skip's day.

Skip had to beat mabe 5-6-7 teams to win a NC. There are that many good teams in the SEC alone now. The level of competition is no comparison. Too, as noted, not many LSU players, or anyone, failed performance enhancing drug tests back then.

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He would have won it all in 2008, 2009, 2013, and 2017

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What and underachiever for not winning in 2015

Sadly I think many of you actually believe this

Bertman almost always had more talent than his SEC foes. Polk was the only one that could ever get as much talent as Bertman and that wasn't very often. That is not the case with PM he does not have the luxury to out talent every one in the SEC. The SEC baseball today has much more parity in it than back then. Bertman was great at turning the baseball program into a dynasty and he was a top notch motivator who could get the most out of his athletes but I really do think PM is a better game manager than Bertman ever was. Both Bertman and PM are 2 of the best at using the early season to find out who they can count on down the stretch and plugging in the right players to make a run at the end of the season.

I'll tell you what Skip wouldn't have done in the elimination game in 2013. He wouldn't have pitched Cody Glenn against UNC with Ryan Eades, already drafted, ready to go sitting on the bench. I don't care what UNC's record was against LHP's. Glenn was suspended from the last regular season series through the SEC and most of if not all regional play. Eades pitched very well and should have been the starter.

This was the turning point with me to really stop following LSU baseball as much as long as CPM is the HC.


Then CPM followed that up with passing on starting Lange his freshman season in Omaha and saving him for the elimination game.

2015 and 2017

do not...DO NOT compare Maneri to Miles!

While they both inherited Cadillac's.

Maneri is still driving his Caddy; it may need a tune up this year but it still runs.

Miles kept crashing his into walls and then finally drove it off a cliff!

And away we go! It's O's fault, not CPM....

He'd have close to a dozen from 2002-2018, including his five

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but I really do think PM is a better game manager than Bertman ever was

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Wow. You really don’t know what you are talking about. Bertman had to manage his pitching staff through 6 team regionals (except for 2000) and then through the Omaha brackets. Bertman had a special knack for getting the right pitcher on the mound for the right time. PM has struggled to manage the bullpen well (look no further than the 4th inning of Game 1 of the CWS Final last season).