Good read here....

I found this while googling for some pics of Louis to put up. I thought it was a good. I hope you enjoy.


Rosetta: Everything fits well for '09 Tigers
By RANDY ROSETTA
Advocate sportswriter
Published: Jun 26, 2009

Symmetry fits pretty well in sports, baseball maybe more than any other.

Batters start at home with the idea of getting back there.

Nine positions on the diamond in a game played for nine innings.

The college baseball program of the 1990s starts the first new decade of the millennium with a national championship and closes it out with yet another, signaling the clear-cut transition into a promising new era of rekindled dominance.

Sons follow their fathers, and fathers are there to share big moments with sons later on.

And for LSU in a magical 2009 season, Louis Coleman on the mound at the beginning and Louis Coleman there at the finish.

That’s how this season played and that’s just about as perfect as can be imagined.

Rewind and consider the variables.

Coleman makes the decision to come back for his senior season. LSU opens a shiny, brand-new stadium with a promising new era on center stage for the Tigers. Coleman takes the mound and throws the first pitch at the new Alex Box Stadium and records the first victory.

Anchored by Coleman’s SEC Pitcher of the Year season, LSU goes back to the College World Series for a second straight year. And in the final dramatic chapter, Coleman throws the final pitch to put a bow on LSU’s sixth national championship.

There he was in the center of the ESPN camera’s eye, flinging his glove out of sight as catcher Micah Gibbs lumbered out for a form-perfect tackle that triggered a dogpile Coleman and his teammates yearned for from the time every one of them stepped on LSU’s campus.

Afterward, there was a consensus among his younger teammates that watched and learned so much from Coleman that the dogpile had to start with him and finish with him getting up off the ground after everyone else.

When the massive championship flag appeared on the field at Rosenblatt Stadium, there was Coleman snatching it and circling the field again. He got the chance for an encore Thursday when he was the last player introduced at the Tigers celebration at the Box, and he had that flag in his hands once more.

The Schlater, Miss., native even injected a little symmetry of his own when he alluded to the corps of talented Tigers who are coming back.

“We’re going to get another one next year,” he said.

Coleman’s wasn’t the only made-for-Hollywood story.

LSU’s national crown was the first of third-year coach Paul Mainieri’s 29-year coaching career, but not the first for his family. His dad, Demie “Doc” Mainieri led Miami-Dade North Community College to the NJCAA national crown in 1964 in Grand Junction, Colo.

His oldest son was 7 at the time and right there by his dad’s side, telling his pop he wanted to take a team to the top some day. Forty-five years later, with 80-year-old Doc right behind the dugout to see it up close and personal, his oldest son came full circle.

Symmetry is pretty cool, huh?