Straw poll on the new LSU baseball coach

Let’s see where the rant stands with the names bantered around.

Who do you want if it is one of these 3:

A. McDonell
B. Godwin
C. Bianco

I think of the 3 I have to go with McDonell. He came to Louisville in 2007 and here are some of their accomplishments since he got there! What you should also notice is, what their accomplishments were before he got there!!!

College World Series appearances
2007, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2019

NCAA regional champions
2007, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019

NCAA Tournament appearances
2002, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

Conference tournament champions
2008, 2009

Conference champions
1983, 1984, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019

Godwin is young and a very good coach, but unlike ECU which was a very good baseball program before Godwin was HC, that can’t be said about Louisville’s program before McDonell. Godwin joined the program in 2015, but look at ECU’s post season accomplishments prior to Godwin.

NCAA regional champions
2001, 2004, 2009, 2016, 2019, 2021

NCAA Tournament appearances
1964, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1974, 1977, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021

Of the three for me it is “A” Dan McDonell


For those adding Vitello, I actually like him the most. What he has done in a short period of time shows how successful he will be going forward. And I can promise you the players will luv playing for a coach with his style “hard but fair on the players to get the most out of them, but even harder on the opposition! Problem is, I have heard from a really good sauce in the AD dept that unfortunately his style has rubbed a couple people at LSU the wrong way and they have been undermining his name.

That is why I didn’t include it, but it will be interesting to see how many write his name in that is fo sho!