Butch Thompson has now been the head baseball coach at Auburn University for over a decade. He and the No. 5 Tigers will play their final regular-season series of the year this weekend at Plainsman Park against the No. 4 ranked Georgia Bulldogs. 

It will wrap up Thompson’s eleventh regular season in the Loveliest Village. During those first ten years (actually it would only be nine because the 2020 season was canceled due to Covid), Thompson led Auburn to the NCAA Tournament six times. They advanced to a Super Regional four times and made it all the way to the World Series twice. 

Andy Graham is a co-host of Auburn Blitz and his column appears here weekly.