"won't be without a bit of controversy, however. Mainieri announced after the game that, still unhappy with the NCAA's decision to postpone the regional final from Sunday night to Monday, he and AD Joe Alleva has formally requested the NCAA start the impending LSU-ULL super regional on Saturday instead of Friday.
"I think that would be the only fair thing quite frankly," a still-agitated Mainieri said Monday.
"We were pretty frustrated, quite frankly," Mainieri said when asked about the postponement. "Any reason that we would give you for them having done it would be purely speculative because, to my knowledge, a clear reason was never given to us."
The point, as Mainieri articulated, is that LSU, which won all three of its regional games, has unfairly lost an off day that would force Poche' to come back on four days rest if he's going to pitch the second game against ULL.