Tommy Raffo exited last year's series against UALR with victories in two of three games and a trip to the Sun Belt Conference tournament for his Arkansas State baseball team.
But the ASU coach also left that series in Jonesboro with a distinct feeling about the Trojans' future after they finished that weekend at 16-33 in Coach Chris Curry's debut season.
"Well-coached and versed in the game," Raffo said. "There was no doubt in my mind that it would be coming, it was just a matter of when."
The Trojans have taken their first big step under Curry this season, one that won't end no matter the results of this weekend's regular-season ending series against the Red Wolves that begins at 6 tonight at Gary Hogan Field in Little Rock.