Southern Jaguars baseball

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Southern Jaguars
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FoundedProgram discontinued after 1931 season but revived in 1948[ citation needed ]
University Southern University
Head coach Chris Crenshaw (4th season)
Conference SWAC
Western Division
Location Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Home stadium Lee–Hines Field
(Capacity: 1,500)
Nickname Jaguars
ColorsColumbia blue and gold [1]
   
NCAA Tournament champions
none, but won 1 NAIA national championship (1959) and 2 blackcollegebaseball.com [2] & 1 blackcollegenines.com [3] black national championships (2003, 2005, 2019)
College World Series appearances
none, but participated in 4 NAIA World Series (1959, 1960, 1965, 1966[ citation needed ])
NCAA Tournament appearances
2019, 2021
Regular season conference champions
27 official (1959, 1960, 1965, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1981, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2019 [4] ) and 4 unofficial (1949, 1950, 1955, 1956 [5] ) SWAC championships

The Southern Jaguars baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. [6] The team is a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference, which is part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. The team plays its home games at Lee–Hines Field in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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Background

The Jaguars have more SWAC titles than any school. They also have more national and black national titles than any SWAC school. Though Southern was forced to discontinue its baseball program during the uncertain times of the Great Depression and World War II years (specifically from 1932 to 1947), its program was largely stable in the subsequent post-war decades; only four head coaches coached Southern between 1949 and 2017. [7] [8] [9]

In 1959 Southern, led by future National Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Brock, became the first historically black college or university (HBCU) to win the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics national championship. In 1987 Southern became the first HBCU to win a game in an NCAA Division I regional tournament by defeating #2-ranked Cal State Fullerton. In 1996 Southern became the first HBCU to win a game in an NCAA Division I play-in series by defeating Austin Peay. [10] In 2003 and 2005, Southern won blackcollegebaseball.com black national championships; [2] in 2019 Southern won a third black national championship, this time designated by blackcollegenines.com, for its Large School Division. [3]

Southern in the NCAA Tournament

YearRecordPctNotes
2019 0–2.000 Starkville Regional
2021 0–2.000 Austin Regional
TOTALS
0–4.000

Head coaches

Robert Henry ("Bob" [11] ) Lee, a graduate of LeMoyne College, [12] served as head coach between 1949[ citation needed ] and 1962, before moving on to become coach of the football team. [13] He compiled a 207–51 [14] (.802) overall record as baseball coach. In addition to coaching Brock and the 1959 team to an NAIA national title, he also led the Jaguars to the 1960 NAIA World Series[ citation needed ] and 2 official [11] and 4 unofficial SWAC titles (for the 1949, 1950, 1955, and 1956 seasons). [5] The Jaguars' baseball stadium is named in part for him.

Emory Wellington Hines, a Texas College alum who had coached the football teams of Grambling State—before the famed Eddie Robinson had assumed the reigns—as well as Samuel Huston College, [15] served as Southern's baseball coach between 1963 [16] and 1976.[ citation needed ] He led the Jaguars to 2 NAIA Area 5 titles—World Series appearances,[ citation needed ] 4 NAIA District titles,[ citation needed ] 9 NAIA District tournaments, 1 NCAA Division II tournament,[ citation needed ] and 8 SWAC titles. [11] He finished his career at Southern with a 373–130–1 [17] [18] (.741) record. His most noteworthy player may have been Danny Goodwin, the only player to have ever been drafted first overall in two Major League Baseball drafts and the first documented Southern player to win a national college baseball player of the year award (from the Sporting News, in 1975). The Jaguars' baseball stadium was later named in part for Hines.

When Southern's athletic director had to step away from his service due to surgery, Hines was promoted in his place, and Hines recommended that Southern alum [19] and assistant coach Lee Flentroy replace him as acting coach. [20]

Southern alum Leroy Boyd [21] later served as acting coach once the 1977 season began and was then promoted to permanent coach after the season [22] —a title that he held through 1984.[ citation needed ] He led the Jaguars to 6 SWAC West titles, 2 SWAC titles, [11] 3 NAIA District tournaments,[ citation needed ] and a 255–157–4 record, [23] for a .618 winning percentage. His most prominent player may have been Reggie Williams.

The Jaguars were most recently led by head coach and Southern alumnus Roger Cador. He completed his coaching career, which spanned from 1985 to 2017, with a 913 wins, 597 losses, [24] and 3 ties [25] (.604), 22 SWAC West titles, 14 SWAC titles, [24] 8 NCAA Division I tournament appearances, 3 NCAA Division I tournament play-in appearances, [10] and 2 blackcollegebaseball.com HBCU national titles. [2] He also holds the distinction of having coached the first HBCU player to win a Baseball America College Player of the Year Award, Collegiate Baseball Player of the Year award, Dick Howser Trophy, Golden Spikes Award, or Rotary Smith Award (Rickie Weeks Jr., in 2003). Cador struggled with health concerns during his later seasons and, due to issues with his pacemaker, the final three weeks of the 2010 season had to be coached by acting head coach Fernando Puebla [26] —although the results of those games are officially credited to Cador (Puebla himself later had issues acquiring full U.S. citizenship and had to step down from the coaching staff shortly before the start of the 2014 season, resulting in Cador assuming additional coaching duties as the season approached [27] ). Cador later suffered from a bout of pneumonia late in the 2017 season, and assistant coach Dan Canevari filled in for him as acting head coach while Cador recovered. [28]

Due to poor record-keeping by athletic department personnel between 2010 and 2015, 218 student athletes from 15 sports teams at Southern were linked to rules infractions by the NCAA; [29] it is not immediately clear how many, if any, of Cador's 137 wins[ citation needed ] from that time period may have been vacated by the NCAA. However, with various unresolved Academic Progress Rate issues, the NCAA limited recruiting efforts, scholarship awards, practice time, and postseason participation for the incoming head coach. [30]

On July 26, 2017 Southern announced the hiring of Kerrick Jackson as coach. [31] He attended St. Louis Community College–Meramec and then Bethune–Cookman, but later transferred to Nebraska. He led Southern to a 9–33 (.214) record in his first season at the helm.[ citation needed ] His second team went 32–24 [32] (.571), won the SWAC Western Division, the SWAC, [4] the blackcollegenines.com Large School Division HBCU national championship, [3] and qualified for the BCSG 360 HBCU World Series (which was later canceled due to inclement weather). [33] Southern also made a return to the NCAA tournament. [4] His third team was 6–10 [34] when the NCAA canceled all spring sports competition due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [35] Jackson resigned on November 30, 2020, and Chris Crenshaw was named the interim head coach.

Since 1949 (when Lee became coach) and through the 2019 season, the team's overall record is 1,795–1,002–8 (.641) on the field—before any wins from 2010 to 2015 that may have been vacated by the NCAA are factored in.

Southern Jaguar Head Coaches (since 1949 only)
No.Name (alma mater)SeasonsGamesWonLostTiedPercentage
1Bob Lee (LeMoyne College)1949–1962258207510.802
2 Emory Hines (Texas College)1963–19765043731301.741
3Lee Flentroy* (Southern)
4Leroy Boyd* (Southern)1977–19844162551574.618
5 Roger Cador (Southern)1985–20171,513913**5973.604
6 Kerrick Jackson (Nebraska)2018–202011447670.412
1 Chris Crenshaw (Bethel (TN))2021–present10847610.435
Totals7 coaches73 years2,1931,843**1,0938.627

Notes: *—Flentroy served as acting head coach between the 1976 and 1977 seasons, and Boyd served as acting head coach during the 1977 season; **—up to 137 wins between 2010 and 2015 are subject to be vacated by the NCAA (it is not yet clear how many, if any, of these wins included ineligible players)

Teams

Southern Jaguar Season Records (since 1974 only)[ citation needed ]
SeasonOverallConferenceNote(s)
Emory Hines (Southwestern Athletic Conference)(1963–1976)
197428–1614–4 SWAC champ, NAIA District participant
197533–814–3SWAC champ, NCAA Division II Regional participant
197621–21–1 [36] 13–4 [37] SWAC champ, NAIA District participant
Leroy Boyd (Southwestern Athletic Conference)(1977–1981)
197729–16–18–2 SWAC West champ, NAIA District participant
197842–29 [23] 11–1 [38] SWAC West champ, NAIA District participant
197932–16–110–0SWAC West champ, SWAC champ, NAIA District participant
198032–17–28–3–1 [25] SWAC West champ
198141–2011–6 [25] SWAC champ
198225–2413–4 [25] SWAC West champ
198326–15*13–5* [39]
198428–2014–4 [25] SWAC West champ
Roger Cador (Southwestern Athletic Conference)(1985–2017)
198521–2411–5 [25]
198622–26–114–6 [25] SWAC West champ
198731–2220–4 [25] SWAC West champ, SWAC champ, NCAA Division I Regional participant
198828–2116–8 [25] SWAC champ, NCAA Division I Regional participant
198917–2413–11 [25]
199026–1717–5SWAC West champ
199131–1217–3SWAC West champ, SWAC champ
199231–1219–5SWAC West champ, SWAC champ
199324–1412–6SWAC co-champ
199430–14–118–6SWAC West champ
199529–1221–3SWAC West champ
199634–718–2SWAC West champ, SWAC champ, NCAA Division I Play-in participant [40]
199732–1721–3SWAC West champ, SWAC champ, NCAA Division I Play-in participant [40]
199831–1622–4SWAC West champ, SWAC champ, NCAA Division I Play-in participant [40]
199929–1623–7SWAC West champ, SWAC champ, NCAA Division I Regional participant
200030–1621–8SWAC West champ
200143–1228–4SWAC West champ, SWAC champ, NCAA Division I Regional participant
200245–1027–3SWAC West champ, SWAC champ, NCAA Division I Regional participant
200344–731–1SWAC West champ, SWAC champ, NCAA Division I Regional participant,
blackcollegebaseball.com HBCU national champ
200426–1419–7SWAC West champ
200529–1817–7SWAC West co-champ, SWAC champ, NCAA Division I Regional participant,
blackcollegebaseball.com HBCU national co-champ
200626–2017–8
200726–1815–9
200828–1818–6SWAC West champ
200930–1717–6SWAC West champ, SWAC champ, NCAA Division I Regional participant
201024–22–1**16–6–1**
201129–19**16–8**SWAC West champ
201233–16**17–7**SWAC West champ
201321–23**14–10**SWAC West champ
201410–26**6–16** [41]
201520–23**13–8**
201614–326–14
201717–2710–14
Kerrick Jackson (Southwestern Athletic Conference)(2018–2020)
20189–336–15§
2019 32–2418–6SWAC West champ, SWAC champ, BCSG 360 HBCU World Series qualifier†,
NCAA Division I Regional participant, blackcollegenines.com Large School
Division HBCU national champ
20206–103–0 [34]
National titleConference titleConference division title

Notes: *—total includes game forfeited by Prairie View A&M, due to the use of an ineligible player; [39] **—up to 137 wins between 2010 and 2015 are subject to be vacated by the NCAA (it is not yet clear how many, if any, of these wins included ineligible players); §—team ineligible for postseason play, due to a violation of NCAA rules concerning Academic Progress Rate scores; [30] †—game canceled, due to inclement weather; [33] ‡—season canceled by NCAA due to COVID-19 pandemic [35]

Players

In 1985 Brock was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. In 2011 Goodwin became the first former HBCU player inducted into the National College Baseball Hall of Fame, and in 2012 Brock became the second.

Major League Baseball

Southern has had 96 Major League Baseball Draft selections since the draft began in 1965. [42]

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