I checked our record book...

[60sdog]

A

 

[Goat #39]

Our great fans deserve better.

Huh?

 

[msstate7]

Huh? Where?

I guess lsu fans weren't good fans for wanting smoke fired either

 

[Goat #39]

Only a moron makes this comparison. Laval took over a program at the top, then fell off. Cohen took over a program at the bottom, and built it up. Just like all coaches have a down year between peaks, so does Cohen. Chances are he will built to another peak in the next few years. I expect to be near hosting a regional next season.

It seriously blows my mind that all of you actually earned degrees from my university. The comparisons and useless statistics you all are coming up with are truly ignorant. That is all, have a great day.

 

[ronpolk]

Our SEC winning percentage this spring was the lowest since 1946.

Our great fans deserve better.

Didn't we go like 6-24 in Cohen's second year?

 

[QuaoarsKing]

Our SEC winning percentage this spring was the lowest since 1946.

Our great fans deserve better.

I suspect he threw this obviously false fact out there on purpose so someone would reply with "No you're wrong! 2010 was worse!" and then he could come back with, "wow...what does THAT say about Cohen??"

So let's just all not take the bait.

 

[thekimmer]

Not so fast.....

Only a moron makes this comparison. Laval took over a program at the top, then fell off. Cohen took over a program at the bottom, and built it up. Just like all coaches have a down year between peaks, so does Cohen. Chances are he will built to another peak in the next few years. I expect to be near hosting a regional next season.

It seriously blows my mind that all of you actually earned degrees from my university. The comparisons and useless statistics you all are coming up with are truly ignorant. That is all, have a great day.

Both of these situations have to do with meeting expectations. Obviously there is a vast difference in expectations between where LSU was in the early 2000s after skip and where we were in the late 2000s after RPII. Smoke did not meet some lofty, some might say near impossible expectations and was shown the door. The question though is has JC met expectations? I would say with a decidedly bad overall SEC record, a couple of decent post season runs and a complete and utter disaster of a year SEVEN that he has not.

Incidentally, in the spirit of full disclosure, I think even LSU fans modulated their expectations slightly after smoke. Comparing Maineri's 5 year record with smokes one sees smoke had a 210-109 and 88-60-1 SEC. He never once failed to make post season, had 4, 1st or 2nd place finishes in the SECW and just one 4th. Went to 2CWS 1 other super and 1 regional. Maineri had a 211-104 and 77-71 SEC record. He missed the post season TWICE. Finished 5th in the SECW 3 times and first twice. Went to two CWS and won one (din-ding ding) & one other regional. I suppose that one CWS title is what saved Maineri because overall Smoke had him beat and he was Skip's hand picked boy!