Tiger baseball also is a big draw outside Baton Rouge. Throughout the South, LSU's road trips attract fans like the Yankees do in the major leagues. There are big tailgate parties and it looks almost like a football crowd. Bertman also has changed the way universities look at baseball, which has long been considered a money drain compared to basketball and football. But if you put a nice ballpark on your campus and the bathrooms are clean and the hot dogs are good, you can make money.
Good players help, too.
Skip has really changed a generation of kids.