This year's tigers were special. It wasn't always pretty. We had tough losses to smaller schools like the University of Omaha, Arkansas-Little Rock and Northwestern Louisiana. But by the end of the season, we had the best team. LSU players are so full of confidence that they rarely lose big games - even when the circumstances looks pretty dim. That sounds like a boast, but it's a fact. LSU is 8-1 in National Championship finals since 1991. Skip Bertman, the architect of the LSU baseball, was a big believer and proponent of 'The Power of Positive Thinking', by Norman Vincent Peale.