Maybe we can get a package deal. Their basketball coach will be looking for a job pretty soon.

I've no inside info, but I feel very confident that Smoke will HC LSU baseball for the 2006 season.

of course he will be. that isnt even an issue.

i am THE MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS!!

don't forget that, pal.

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I assume you're referring the events that happened between us and them, what? 2 seasons ago? I don't know anything factual, but I can only assume that those altercations were an isolated "players vs players" incident.

By all accounts outside of that time, he seems to run a fare program.

Can you fill me in on that? I have no idea what incident you are talking about.

Unlike football, baseball is a sport where there just really aren't that much seperating schools. I mean, sure, LSU, Miami, Texas, and all other prominant teams will pay their coaches more, but it's not a sport where you're likely to lure away a coach from another major program like what happens in football.

I don't see us, or any of the other top baseball programs, hiring away a coach from one another--unless there's a major fallout (i.e. the only way OU gets Smoke, reguardless of the rumors, is if Smoke just wasn't happy here and chose to leave).

And if you're going to hire a new baseball coach, any school from a major conference that has a coach that would consider leaving his current position to come here simply, IMO, at best, no better than what we currently have.

I'm a believer in those coaches, no matter the sport, that "win with less". Because if you put a coach, young and energetic like Robichaux, in a program with even more support than what he's getting now, and the program has better name recognition, he'll succeed even more.

In the last game between the 2 schools (I believe 2, or maybe even 3 seasons ago), the game turned into an ugly "beanball war" and some of them were down-right deliberate.

I wasn't at the game that night, but if I recall correctly, benches cleared a few times and the teams weren't allowed near one another after the final out was recorded.

From the altercations that took place that night, Skip banned UL-L from our schedule. For how long I don't know, but you KNOW it HAD to have been a bad sight to make Skip take another Louisiana school off the schedule.

it wasn't a one-time incident or one game.

It sounds a little dumb, but if the time comes, would we maybe give Tony Gwinn a shot?

Seems to have his program out there on the up...

Would DEFINATELY be a great recruiter