Quite a contrast

Last year, LSU made the SEC Tournament with a team that didn't achieve. At least that was the perception.

This year, LSU is going to need either a big weekend at Vanderbilt starting tonight, or some help, just to make the SEC Tournament. Yet the perception is this team has overachieved.

Actually, Paul Mainieri has gotten just about all that could be gotten from this team. There have been some meltdowns but this isn't mid-'90s LSU baseball. Even if this weekend is the end of the season for the Tigers, Mainieri has given LSU fans hope for the future.