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Welcome to sports Friday.

Another name or two disappeared this week from the candidate list for the LSU baseball coaching vacancy, including Corbin at Vanderbilt and Ray Tanner of South Carolina.

It's looking more and more like either Jim Wells or Skip Bertman will be in the home dugout of Alex Box Stadium next year. Barring a last-minute change of heart by someone, this is starting to look like Bertman has again failed to make the big-time hire.

When Nick Saban left LSU in the position of being football coachless, i will contend that Bertman wasn't given a whole lot of time before signing day to get a new coach in place. But I have a hard time believing that the prestige of the LSU job -- only one full season off a national title -- coupled with the athletic department's budget couldn't have landed someone who left fans saying, "Well, if we can't have Saban, at least we got..."

But that didn't happen.

It appears that LSU baseball hire is looking a lot like the Les Miles hiring. it will be somebody whose resume will more or less justify the hire, but won't have people running out in the streets to celebrate. And the jury is still out as to whether Miles will prove to be an adequate hire, but that's a discussion for another day.

So I'm still holding out hope that a big time name will end up leading the baseball team next year. All indications are that it won't happen, though. And if that's the case, I can only hope LSU's next hire will be a new athletic director.