Since 1893, the LSU Baseball Team has represented the Louisiana State University in the NCCA Division I College Baseball League. The LSU Baseball Team, or LSU, has also been a part of the West Division of the Southeastern Conference. For three consecutive years, Paul Mainieri has been the coach of the LSU baseball team. Purple and gold are the colors that represent the team.

For years, the team has continued to gain one achievement after another. Some of the major achievements include 15 college world series and 6 national championships. The Alex Box Stadium has been a long time silent witness to the team's prowess, since all of LSUs home games are held in this arena. The stadium can hold up to 9,200 people.

During their home games, LSU's favorite arena is the Alex Box Stadium. All of the team's home games are held in this stadium, which is one of the largest in the state of Louisiana and can accommodate up to 9,200 viewers.

LSU has brought a lot of achievements for the Louisiana State University. LSU has participated in 15 college world series. In addition, the team has also accomplished 6 national championships.

Aside from this, LSU has produced remarkable players that have been drafted to ply for major league baseball teams. This is enough proof that LSU is really a force to reckon with in the baseball playing field.

Brad Hawpe is another player that made it to professional league through LSU. Being born on June 22nd 1979, Brad made his debut for the Colorado Rockies on May 1st, 2004. He has been playing for the Rockies for at least 6 years now and has been able to establish remarkable statistics. At the current moment in time, he has a batting average of 0.238 with 683 hits.

Aside from Theriot, Chicago Cubs also drafted Mike Fontenot a few months earlier specifically on April 13th 2005. Fontenot, born on June 9th 1980 wears shirt number seventeen and plays as the second baseman for the Chicago Cubs. Despite Fontenot's quiet career since he played for the Cubs, he shows a lot of promise and could possibly be the next big name in major league baseball. Fontenot has 11 runs in which he has batted in, and maintains a batting average of 0.266 and a total of 21 home runs.

Another player drafted for the Chicago Cubs which also came from LSU is Mike Fontenot, who was born on June 9th 1980. His first game for the Cubs was on April 13th 2005. To date, he plays as the second baseman for the Cubs and wears shirt number seventeen.

In total he has 112 runs in which he has batted in. Wearing the number 17 playing as the second baseman for the Cubs, there are a lot of high expectations for him in the near future. Only time will tell.

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Now that the Spring Training games are over, it is now time for the real baseball to begin this season. This is when the Phillies get to prove to the baseball world that there is a new found sense of dominance that is in the team, and this as a result will lead to the team being ready to take over the world this season. There are a lot of reasons to believe that this will be the best year that the Phillies have had in quite a long time. There is even reason to think that the two previous years are nothing compared to the excitement that will be found when the Phillies hit the field this season.

The deal alone is enough to give the Team enough to make them feel like they are able to make anything happen There are so many reasons as to why the Phillies are poised to win the World Series again. The bullpen is stronger than it has been in previous years, this is part of the reason as to why the team will be able to make the most out of their pitching rotation.

There is no doubt that the addition of Halliday to the bullpen, has secured them a spot in the playoffs for sure. Many say just the addition of Halliday alone is reason enough that they will be repeating a trip to the World Series. There is also a line of closers that are able to get the job done on the mound as well. These closers will be vital in sealing a victory for the team on the field.

Their play in the outfield is second to none, there is not a thing that they can't do when it comes to stopping the big plays. If a runner is considering extra bases, then they will need to have supersonic speed. The outfield is strong enough that they will be able to make the double plays and hold runners at the bases.

The infield is another place that the team needs to make a slight modification when it comes to trying to get the team in a position that they will make a third trip in a row to the World Series. There is a lot of fans that are looking forward to this season as being the season that they seal their place as being a dominant force in professional baseball.

If you doubt the power that the team will have in the future then you just need to take a look at the past few years as an example of the dominance that the team has had in the past few years. There is a lot that can be said about the team especially in the past couple of years.

No matter if you are a fan that just goes with the popular team at the time, or a Phillies fan since birth, this will be one of the best seasons that the team will experience in a long while. The team is able to go the distance, and as a result are able to make a lot of noise in MLB this season as a result. This will be an exciting year to be a fan.

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The Georgia Bulldogs football team has been one of the most successful in history, having won nearly two thirds of all games they have played since 1892. Members of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the "Dawgs" can routinely be found in the top 25 polls of the best teams in the nation, and are usually considered amongst college football's elite programs - though recent years have seen them somewhat less successful than they have been in the past. Their stadium in Athens, Georgia is the fifth largest of its kind to exist on any American campus, and seas more than 90,000 fans. The Bulldogs have fielded a host of great players in their history, but perhaps none have been as well known as Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker, who carried the ball for the Bulldogs from 1980 to 1982.

The future Heisman

When Herschel Walker arrived on the campus of the University of Georgia, he made an immediate impact. Despite being a freshman running back, Walker ran over, around, and through the competition that season to set freshman records for rushing and help the Bulldogs to an undefeated season. His freshman performance garnered him so much attention that he managed to get enough votes for the Heisman Trophy that he came in third that year - a rare and almost unheard of feat for an underclassman at the college level. That year's Bulldogs went on to play Notre Dame in the 1980 Sugar Bowl, with their victory over the Fighting Irish earning them a consensus national championship. After two more impressive seasons with the Bulldogs, Walker finally broke through in the Heisman voting and won the award in 1982 as a junior.

The junior professional

That junior year turned out to be his last in a Bulldogs uniform, as Walker made the fateful decision to attempt to circumvent the existing NFL rules and opt out of his senior season of college football in favor of going pro. Herschel was no dummy, and he recognized that his Heisman fame and stellar three seasons with the Georgia team had provided him with an elevated public profile that was unlikely to be raised any further by a fourth year of college play. He also recognized that if he could acquire some level of control over where he played in the National Football League, that he would then receive more control over the type of advertising revenue that he could receive.

He joined the United States Football League, where he remained until that League's demise in 1986. At that point, he played for the Dallas Cowboys, who had presciently drafted him in 1985.

A legacy of unorthodox decisions

Though often cited as one of the greatest college football players of all time, his accomplishments off the field have been just as important to the game. Widely recognized as having helped to force the NFL to change its rules regarding college juniors entering the NFL draft, Herschel had an undeniable impact on the lives of the many college players who followed in his footsteps.

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The University of Southern California Trojans have been playing college football since 1888, and have been playing winning football for much of that history. Their regular domination of the teams in the Pacific-10 Conference has helped them to win a total of eleven national championships, while being in contention for many others. In addition, the team has been one of the most consistent over the last ten years, and has been a regular recipient of a top ten ranking in the major polls. They have spent much of that time in the top five of the AP and BCS polls. That decade coincided with the tenure of Pete Carroll, who brought a professional style of offense and defense to the college game when he was hired by the Trojans in the year 2000.

Not the first choice

It is almost amusing to look back on the history of Carroll's hiring at USC. Almost everybody thought that the job would not be right for Carroll, especially given his background as an NFL coach, and lengthy time away from the college ranks. There was so much doubt about his ability to lead the Trojans that the school actually pursued three other candidates before seriously considering Carroll -and this was despite the fact that USC had even tried to hire Carroll away from the Patriots only three years before. After being rebuffed by the coaches of Oregon, Oregon State, and the NFL's San Diego Chargers, the University had no other qualified candidates from which to choose and turned to Carroll. Carroll, for his part, never gave up on the job, despite the time spent waiting for USC to complete its futile recruitment efforts with other coaches. He had good reason to wait, as his daughter's presence at the University made it a perfect fit for his entire family.

Rocky starts don't always smart

Carroll's USC Trojans team took to the field for the 2001 campaign - and immediately fell on their faces. With only two of seven victories to their credit as the season began, the agonizing over Carroll's selection grew even more intense. Some in the press even went so far as to refer to his selection as the worst choice in the history of college football. The consensus was that Pete Carroll would prove to be the death of USC football supremacy and the dawn of an extended period of mediocrity. E was, in the minds of many, the bringer of the dark ages.

As usually happens in such instances, the pundits were proved wrong by Carroll and his team's refusal to accept conventional wisdom. The team bought into the Carroll professional-look system, and began a period of domination the likes of which has seldom been seen before or since. Over the next 74 games, the Trojans would win 67. Those victories would propel them to two wins in the national title game, while ensuring that USC's position as a premier football team was firmly set in stone. Carroll also managed to lead his team to victory in every Conference Championship between 2003 and 2008.

By then, everyone had forgotten about the early days of his tenure with the team, and even the media began to refer to him as perhaps being the best coaching selection ever made by any team.

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The Wisconsin Badgers have, from the beginning, been a football program where success and failure have come in waves. Though the team's overall 614-465 record is a positive one, it does not tell the entire story of Badger football - a tale that involves not only prolonged periods of success, but prolonged periods of failure as well. In the wake of their successful 1901 campaign, the Badgers went through a three and a half decade time of poor play that was only broken by their undefeated season in 1912. They nearly repeated that era of mediocrity with another after their defeat in the Rose Bowl of 1962 - another three decades of miserable results. However, the 1990 arrival of Barry Alvarez as Wisconsin's Head Coach would signal the return of the Badgers to national prominence.

Alvarez' coaching pedigree

Barry Alvarez was a fairly well known commodity when he was hired by the school. He had been a successful player under Coach Bob Devaney during the 1960s, and then landed coaching jobs at the high school level in Nebraska as well as in Iowa. He eventually caught the eye of the Hawkeye legend, Coach Hayden Fry, and was given a job as an assistant at the University of Iowa. From there it was on to Notre Dame to finish Alvarez' time as an assistant coach. Arriving at Wisconsin in 1990, Alvarez made it clear that the team's fortunes were destined to change. Unfortunately, there would soon be doubts amongst the school's fan base as to whether or not that was true.

A slow start

New coaches at any level often find their first few seasons rough going. Like a ship in the ocean, it takes time to turn around a college football program. In Alvarez and the Badgers' case, it took three years. The first season resulted in only one win, while the next two seasons produced losing records as well - though both were much improved form that initial campaign. Of course, the rumors immediately began to fly that Alvarez would be fired or forced out of his job. He silenced those rumors as soon as the 1993 season got underway.

A new period of success

The Badgers looked like a different team altogether as the 1993 season started. They went through that season with only two losses, earning their fourth trip to the Rose Bowl. Though they had lost the first three Rose Bowl contests earlier in their history, Alvarez had his team ready to play that year and they achieved their first Rose Bowl win ever. In addition, his 1993 squad was honored with an Associate Press poll ranking of number six. Throughout the rest of Alvarez coaching years, the Badgers would have winning seasons every year but two, become consistent bowl-goers, and remain at or near the top of the Big Ten standings. Best of all, the Alvarez Badgers would repeat their performance in the Rose Bowl twice more, winning the Bowl in 1998, and again in 1999.

By the time he left the program after the 2005 season, Alvarez had established himself as the most successful of all of Wisconsin's many past coaches.

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One of the most startling things that can happen to any college football fan with only passing knowledge of the game is to look up onto their television screen during a highlights recap and see the Boise State Broncos football team playing at home. To be sure, the quality of play that the team delivers is definitely an attention-getter - the WAC team has been making waves in the NCAAs for some time, with particular attention drawn to them during the 2006 season. They went undefeated in that year, and their 13 victories included a Fiesta Bowl win over storied Oklahoma. That success has continued right up to the present, including another undefeated campaign in the 2009 season - a season in which many believe they had as much right to contend for a national championship as any of the other unbeaten teams at the top of the polls. Still, the team's success still isn't the most attention-grabbing aspect of the Boise State program. That distinction would, in the minds of most fans, center around the unique color of the football field on which the team plays - a bright shade of blue.

How to get a blue field

That blue field in Bronco Stadium has been the subject of much consternation and conversation over the last several decades. Alone among all college football programs, Boise State decided to make their field blue in part out of a desire to get the most out of their three quarters of a million dollar Astro turf change in 1985. Since the turf was going to be so expensive anyway, the decision was made that there was no reason to settle for the new Astro turf looking exactly the same as the old. In an attempt to gain publicity for the turf's installation, the decision makers at the school opted to install the new field covering using one of the team's uniform colors - blue and orange. Blue got the nod, and the rest is history.

Is there an advantage?

Of course, it was only natural that there would be much speculation over the course of the next two and a half decades that perhaps the blue field, when seen against the blue of the Boise State players' uniforms, would serve to camouflage the Broncos players and force opponents to play at a disadvantage. Comments to that effect were, however, quickly dismissed in light of the fact that many colleges and professional teams have worn green uniforms that have been similar in color to the grass on which they played, without serious suggestions that they were somehow invisible to their opponents due to the blending of the colors. One coach of another squad was so adamant that the blue field provided no real advantage to the Broncos that he is famously quoted as saying that the real disadvantage his team had in facing the Boise State team came from the fact that the players on those Broncos units had so much talent.

Permanent blues

Despite that ringing endorsement for the field, the NCAA rules were eventually changed in order to prohibit any other school from ever using the same color scheme on its field.

Fortunately for the Broncos, the rule made an explicit exception for them, leaving them as the only team that has or ever will have a blue football field.

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In the course of the last half century, there has not been a college football program that has seen more success in terms of wins than the Nebraska Cornhuskers. As one of only seven NCAA football programs to garner 800 or more wins in their history, the Cornhuskers have been a college football power for most of their 119 seasons, holding the fourth highest number of wins in Division 1 football. In addition, they have achieved five national championships, with three of those coming in the last quarter century. Those three national titles were earned under the guidance and tutelage of the legendary Thomas "Tom" Osborne, who coached the Nebraska Cornhuskers between 1973 and 1997.

His basic strategy

When most people think of Tom Osborne, their first thought runs to the so-called "option" offense". True Nebraska fans who know the history of the Osborne years are well aware that the option was not something Osborne originally wanted to implement. The reality is that the first seven years of the Osborne era saw the team utilizing an I-formation, and the switch to the option was only made after Osborne had seen firsthand just how much success the Sooners' option offense had against his Nebraska defenses during the previous decade. Osborne was never wed to any particular coaching philosophy except that of winning and that fluidity of style was the key to his teams' success during his career. The Cornhuskers' opponents during the next two decades proved to be as frustrated with the Nebraska option offense as his teams had been with that of the Oklahoma wishbone attack. Of course, Osborne had an eye for picking just the right quarterbacks for his option system, but his success as a quarterback extended beyond that position and encompassed his ability to ensure that the team functioned as a unit.

Success breeds success

For an entire quarter of a century of Osborne coaching, Nebraska enjoyed the type of national prominence most schools' fans would come to envy. With teams that won at least nine games in 25 consecutive seasons - a remarkable streak by any standard - and 13 Big Eight and Big Twelve Conference titles, Osborne amassed an impressive record of 255 all-time wins with only 49 losses and 3 ties. He also broke the record for the fastest coach to win 250 games, as his teams compiled a 60 victory and 3 losses run during his last five years at the coach's helm. In addition, throughout his tenure at Nebraska, there were only three weeks in which the Cornhuskers were not ranked in the top 25 of the Associated Press poll.

Of course, his 1994 and 1995 undefeated seasons elevated Nebraska to the status of football dynasty. Both years resulted in National Titles.

The Cornhuskers' unpredictable and often unstoppable rushing offense, combined with a stellar defense that often received far less credit than it deserved, made them a potent force on the field that no team could afford to take for granted -just like their coach. Osborne remains with the University to this day, in his official capacity as athletic director.

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The Red Raiders football team is the representative of Texas Tech University - often referred to simply as "Tech" - in the Big Twelve Conference of the NCAAs. Football has been an integral part of the Texas Tech tradition since 1925, with varying degrees of success. Overall, the program has garnered eleven total conference championships in its history, and maintains a positive record of wins and losses. One of the brightest periods in its history occurred during the prior decade, when the Red Raiders had a winning season during each year between 2001 and 2009. Much of the team's success during that period can be attributed to the coaching of a man who had never suited up for a football game in his life.

Mike Leach arrives

The fact that Leach had no college football experience as a player did make his hiring something out of the ordinary, but Texas Tech seemed nonplussed by the notion. It has been common -almost expected, in fact - that college coaches have had at least some personal experience in a college football uniform prior to entering the coaching ranks. Leach had none. He did possess ideas, however, and it was those ideas put into practice that enabled Leach to have the success that he did. His teams all believed in what he wanted them to do, and because they believed, they achieved. Leach's first season with the team was a winning one, beginning a pattern that would be repeated throughout his tenure with the school. His years at Tech saw the team playing in a bowl game every season, with them winning five of the nine they played. Those wins gave Leach the record for Texas Tech coaches in the postseason.

His secret

There is no question that Leach's true passion in the game rests in the area of offense. He cut his coaching teeth, so to speak, as an offensive coach at several schools prior to taking the job at Tech, and helped each of those schools to create passing offenses that lit up scoreboards across the nation. His variation on the spread offense has been mimicked by other teams through the years, though few have had the success with it that Leach did. In addition, his ability to turn quarterbacks like Tim Couch into top ranked draft picks has been well documented.

The Insight Bowl

Viewers of the 2006 Insight Bowl were given a clear example of the Texas Tech offense in action. With his team down by more than 30 points in the third quarter, Leach did what few other coaches would dare - he unleashed his spread offense attack against the Minnesota Golden Gophers in one last-ditch effort to even the score. By the end of regulation, the score was tied. By the end of overtime, the Red Raiders had managed the largest postseason come from behind victory in history, winning by three.

The Gophers led Tech by 31 points in the third quarter of that contest. Most coaches would have recognized just how untenable their team's position was, and made a point of trying to get as many bench players into the game as possible - to ensure that they received playing time. Leach, however, regrouped his squad and inspired them to not only catch the Golden Gophers in regulation, but then beat them by three points in overtime.Glory fades, however, and Leach's relationship with Tech suffered a fatal blow in 2009 when he was accused of mistreating a player. Leach's refusal to apologize resulted in his termination - a firing over which he is currently suing the school.

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From the beginning of the Bowl Championship Series' development, there were many complaints from the smaller conferences that the system denied them access to the upper tier BCS bowl games - and the increased revenue those games provided. For a team like the Utah Utes, the criticism had merit. With a long history of championship football within the various conferences in which they competed, the Utes felt they were as good as anyone else in the country. Other teams, like Boise State, felt they too were worthy of contention. New fans of college football are today more accustomed to the notion of mid-major teams being provided greater access to bowl games. Last year's TCU and Boise State BCS match up was a clear example of how much things have changed. For those unfamiliar with the history of the BCS, however, the breaking of that BCS wall between mid and major conferences may be somewhat of a mystery. It was actually the direct result of Urban Meyer's time as the coach of the Utah Utes - a short, two season span of time that enabled a school from the forgotten Mountain West Conference to crash the major conferences' BCS party.

Ready to go

Upon taking the job at Utah, Meyer had little to do to get his team ready to play. The Utes were an established team with a history of success. Over the last 118 years, the Utes have won twenty-four conference championships wherever they have been, and had compiled a 617-421 record overall. In addition, their postseason record was the best of any team with at least ten appearances: 12-3. Meyer knew that he was joining a program with the potential for great things, and immediately set out to provide his team with the motivation to reach that potential. In one of his first public statements, he let it be known that his team's goal would be to focus on playing hard in an up-tempo style, and ensure that their fans were given the show they deserved.

Breaking the BCS mold

Meyer's first campaign with the Utes demonstrated that his style of play would reap huge rewards for his team. After using Meyer's spread offense to win 10 of the 12 games they played and their conference crown, there was no doubt that the Utes were a real power. Their bowl game that year was a complete shutout of a quality Southern Miss. Team. Not content to rest on their laurels, the following year's team repeated as conference winners while establishing a new Utes' scoring record - all while going undefeated. The BCS was eventually forced to acknowledge the Utes' dominance, and gave them a slot in the Fiesta Bowl of 2005 against Pittsburgh. The Utes won that contest going away. Their season results earned them a number four ranking in the Associated Press's final season poll.

In the two short seasons Meyer was at Utah, he had done what no other coach had ever accomplished: he shattered the BCS wall. At last, the college world had no choice but to recognize that superior level football was being played outside of the major conferences as well.

As for the Utes, they were provided another opportunity to show their mettle in a BCS match up when they faced the Crimson Tide of Alabama in 2009. The Utes soundly beat them as well.

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The Miami Hurricanes have been one of the most dominant teams in all of sports over the last three decades, and still remain well within the title hunt in most years. After not having won a national title for the majority of its history, the Hurricanes rose to national prominence in the 1980s when the '83-'84 team was awarded the national crown. Since that time, four other Miami teams have managed to compete for and win the national championship, making them one of the four top winning programs over the last thirty years. In addition, the Hurricanes have produced two winners of the Heisman Trophy, demonstrating the high caliber of talent they routinely recruit. They are also the holder of the longest home winning streak in the history of the NCAAs, with 58 straight home victories at one point.

Success and resentment

The Miami Hurricanes have had a tumultuous relationship with the nation's college football fans over the years, with almost every fan having strong opinions about the program - some positive and some negative. Miami players can be seen in NFL uniforms on any given Sunday, which has caused many college fans to develop a resentment of the program. In addition, there was a period in the 1990s and early in the 2000s when Miami's teams were perhaps unfairly characterized as arrogant showboats that had a tendency to believe their own hype. While there was certainly a confident edge to those teams, the arrogant label was almost certainly unfairly given. The success of Miami players in the NFL attests to the fact that most players from the school have obviously been team-oriented. Of course, it is always easy for fans to hate any team that is more successful than their own.

The streaks

Miami's amazing 58 game streak of victories at home represents but one of their many periods of sustained success. The home win streak, lasting from 1985 to 1994, certainly stands out as a testament to the quality of the Miami fan base and the advantage that those fans provide for the team when playing at home in their own stadium. The team's 2000 through 2003 streak of 34 straight wins, however, encompassed both games played at home and those played in the stadiums of their opponents. That streak, by the way, surpassed the former Miami streak of 29 consecutive victories between 1990 and 1993. Home streaks are one thing - going several years without losing a road game is something else entirely.

Still in the hunt

With the strength of the SEC over the last few years, there are some who believe that the Hurricanes may be a team in need of rebuilding. The reality is that it has been less than a decade since Miami's last championship title, and they still remain competitive enough to be ranked the top ten or fifteen teams in the country each year. Given their ability to consistently reload their talent rather than rebuild their program, it is a safe bet that championship football will continue to be a part of Miami Hurricane tradition for some time to come.

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