re: LSU baseball adds Tulane assistant Eddie Smith to coaching staff

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Let Cain and Ochinko go earn their stripes.

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Nope

Cain is one of the 10 best recruiters in all of college baseball

Woodward challenged PM to hire a guy who used to play for paul? Pm showed he has brought in highly thought of guys before with cannizaro, dunn, and godwin

Awesome that should raise Hal's BA up to 130. Anyway, bring in Eddie and the Chink has just left the building!

Will be funny if majority of players start taking off in summer ball.

Rabalais discusses why the "volunteer" part of the job isn't really correct:

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I’m told that at a school like LSU, a volunteer assistant can pull in a low six-figure income, mostly through working the school’s lucrative summer youth camp program.

That’s a big part of the reason Will Davis was able to afford to spend several seasons on the LSU staff before heading off to Lamar where he is now head coach.

A payoff like that can trump the full-time assistant coaches’ salaries of many less well-heeled baseball programs across the country.

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LINK

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LSU baseball has its new volunteer. The school announced Tuesday afternoon that it has hired former Tulane assistant Eddie Smith to be its new volunteer/hitting coach. Smith, who played under coach Paul Mainieri at Notre Dame, replaces former LSU standout Sean Ochinko in that role. “We’re extremely excited to add Eddie Smith to our staff, and we’re very fortunate to have him,” Mainieri said in a statement. “Eddie is a very experienced coach with a proven track record of success. He combines his intelligence and coaching ability with a tremendous work ethic, and he is going to be a very impactful asset to our program.”

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It's official. LSU announces addition of Smith.

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I read that Rabalais article earlier and thought he ended it in a shitty, insulting way:

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He's probably just pissed off that a "volunteer assistant baseball coach" at LSU makes more than double what Rabalais' salary is at the Advocate.

I recall PM's comment at season's end where he stated if his guys are going to strike out so much they have to hit more homers. Problem solved.

Right. Penrod said it was foolish to even suggest this.

But yes Woody met with Paul and made a few suggestions.

Btw...Woody has brought his top assistant from ATM with him. Stephanie Rempe. She’s a very strong addition as is Brandy Douglass who also came from ATM. You guys who think Woody is sitting around being happy about underachieving programs are gonna be in for a surprise lol.