re: Paul just all class

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frick that dude. No surprise he hitched his wagon to ND this week. I wish he would just go away.

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We sit in Left Field but I scored a fancy ticket to the Champions Club for the last game vs Northwestern State. Walked in to get a sammich and beer and there was Paul Mainieri chatting it up with anyone and everyone. He's such a nice man and was a helluva coach at ND and LSU.

Your opinion stinks but fortunately it's not popular.

Mainieri is incredibly well-respected and will always be welcome in Alex Box.

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frick that dude. No surprise he hitched his wagon to ND this week. I wish he would just go away.

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Of course you wish he would go away. Trashy people hate class.

Tool

Nobody hates LSU like LSU fans, and I am completely serious, of all the 12 or so times I have banned from the site, a majority of them have come from bs with so called LSU fans despite Auburn fans hating me for ATPB and being being a notorious bama hater.

I will never forget when Paul stood on top of a bed a a pick up truck in 2007 at Fair Grounds Field in 2007. All 5'7 of him got up there and gave us a faithful few that we'd be in Omaha soon enough. He delivered with that 2008 squad, who can forget that winning streak, and arguably in 2009 the best Tiger team ever. Sure, a few of Smoke's recruits still were there, and 1997 will likely never be surpassed (though we were one late inning Larson home run from losing to Rice that opening game.....). Paul was worthy of the legacy Skip built. In his era, at the very beginning, Ray Tanner was paramount. Then OSU whom Manieri beat in as memeroeble a fashion almost as Skip did to the Aggies in 1987. Should Paul have retired right before Covid? Sure we can all agree on that. His misses in the big moments between 2009 and 2017 were tough. But during that period no one won more ball games or super regionals than he did. He didn't drive LSU into the ground. He maintained Skip's legacy through 2017 as only a couple of other coaches could have.

I am not a Mainieri apologist but to not give our championship coach and gentleman his due is ridiculous.

At worst we gave him one more year than was deserved. The timing was right and he left. Recall Laval's first season..Let's see what Johnson can do in number 2. If it is anything like what Paul did in his second season we will be thrilled.

Paul did nothing to tarnish the LSU brand. It was time for him to retire..LSU's fate will he decided soon by Johnson. The bar is high. Both Smoke and Paul hit Omaha in their 2nd year.

Paul bit pay dirt the 3rd year. 2009 will always remain in Tiger lore as as great a title as any.

Regards to the comparison of Skip to Augie, gimme a break. Great coaches. Skip in 18 years compared to Augie...come on. No comparison. Outside of Ron Dedeaux Skip has no equal.

Btw, the Fair Grounds Field reference is for fellow Shreveporters. It's about to be torn down and that was the last big game played there. Fair Grounds Field hosted more great players in its time as the AA affiliate for the San Fran Giants then few other minor league parks. I'll never forget as a kid getting Will Clark and Bonds to sign autographs leaning from the first base line pre game before 7k packed the house. 1993 probably. Regardless for those who were at the last big baseball game on 2007 and who heard Paul speak with a megaphone standing on pick up truck will remember the moment.

From 2008 to 2017 we got more than what any coach in any sport could expect to receive.

His time was past but he will always be a legend for the great decade run he gave us. I recall quite well the horrific endings to some of those years but if baseball is truly part of the big 3, his 10 year run is only surpassed by Bertman, Miles (barely), Saban and Orgeron.

But just back to baseball, we'd be lucky to gave Mainieri"s success over the next decade.

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Augie would be the GOAT careerwise. Win totals and rings equaling Skip at 2 different schools.

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Augie had an excellent career that should not be disparages in any way. But 2 of his 5 Nattys were won before there was any type parity in the NCAA baseball world, and the five total were won over a 17-18 year period.

Skip won 5 Nattys in a 10 year period at one location. He won at LSU where baseball was an afterthought to football, spring football, and football recruiting. There was very little talent in Louisiana at that time and baseball was not even talked about in the area unless you were going to see the Astros in Houston for a summer weekend. He did not have the advantages in recruiting that Rod Dedeaux and Augie had be having West Coast kids nearby, where baseball was a big deal.
Dedeaux (BTW born in New Orleans) was/is the GOAT for winning so many Nattys but did it when there were only a few schools who even fielded a competitive baseball team and almost no one spent any money on it.
For my money, Skip is the GOAT

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Find you someone in life who will look at you the same way that teenage girl is eyeing that Coors.

Hitched his wagon to ND? Why not? He coached there for years and won CWS at Notre Dame. Makes perfect sense to be there. If LSU were in CWS this year instead of Notre Dame would you have a problem with him being in Omaha?

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No surprise he hitched his wagon to ND this week.

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So ‘Mr. Slinger’ who should Pawl be supporting? Should they pull for one of LSU’s SEC West foe’s like A&M, Auburn, Arky or Ole Miss?

So whats the issue? I would MUCH rather see him pullin for ND than A&M / OM / Arky / Auburn