Vitello Compared To Former LSU Manager Skip Bertman

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Volfan1000 said:
By John Adams in his column today in the Knoxville News Sentinel.

Bertman led LSU to 3 CWS appearances before winning one in his 8th season.

Bertman was a relentless promoter and recruiter as is Vitello.

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Well….LSU, Bertman made them the standard in the SEC. Every other SEC team measures themselves by what he built.

All that said, in this new era of college baseball, CTV could get us to there, he’s young enough. We shall see. LSU has sustained it over a period of time. Game by game. On track.

GBO!!!
 
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vol66 said:
Well….LSU, Bertman made them the standard in the SEC. Every other SEC team measures themselves by what he built.

All that said, in this new era of college baseball, CTV could get us to there, he’s young enough. We shall see. LSU has sustained it over a period of time. Game by game. On track.

GBO!!!
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The program at LSU was portrayed as destitute in the ESPN short on Skip. Players painting locker rooms, building dugout benches, maintaining a rigorous schedule to reinvigorate the playing surface.

I’d say Tony has established himself as a manager that came into an organization and moved it from lower tier SEC, to the top of SEC and NCAA. Good luck in Omaha, BaseVolz!
 
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chuckiepoo said:
The program at LSU was portrayed as destitute in the ESPN short on Skip. Players painting locker rooms, building dugout benches, maintaining a rigorous schedule to reinvigorate the playing surface.

I’d say Tony has established himself as a manager that came into an organization and moved it from lower tier SEC, to the top of SEC and NCAA. Good luck in Omaha, BaseVolz!
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Bertman is a legend. Hold the rope. You’ll never hear me speak of ill of ‘em. Different time. Go get it boys, that’s where ya start.
 
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In fairness, but not to take anything away from Bertman's legendary career. Baseball in the SEC has never been this deep talent wise top to bottom. Most of the players playing now would be in the minor leagues prepping through the farm system . A few teams took it serious from 1984 to 2001 during SBs tenure and some just fielded a team to satisfy the conference mostly concentrating on Football & Basketball. It will be much harder to come up with 870 wins and a 73% winning over a career in todays climate JMO. Hard to compare the present NIL era to the non NIL and partial scholarship era and some teams using football players that happened to play HS Baseball.
 
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KTrain said:
In fairness, but not to take anything away from Bertman's legendary career. Baseball in the SEC has never been this deep talent wise top to bottom. Most of the players playing now would be in the minor leagues prepping through the farm system . A few teams took it serious from 1984 to 2001 during SBs tenure and some just fielded a team to satisfy the conference mostly concentrating on Football & Basketball. It will be much harder to come up with 870 wins and a 73% winning over a career in todays climate JMO. Hard to compare the present NIL era to the non NIL and partial scholarship era and some teams using football players that happened to play HS Baseball.
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Tony is on track, definitely not impossible. If not for the covid year he would be quite a ways over 300 wins already in his 7th year (sitting at 290 right now). Bertman won his first NC 7 years into his career. Let’s hope Tony does this year as well.
 
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