Monte Lee made the transition from coaching legend Jack Leggett look easy in Year 1, maybe too easy.
The Clemson baseball coach won the 2016 ACC Tournament in his first season at the helm and earned a national seed in the NCAAs, where the Tigers bowed out in a home regional.
The expectation and identity, though, were established: Clemson was going to get back to being a perennial challenger in the ACC, and reaching the College World Series is and will always be the goal under Lee.
As the 2017 regular season came to a close Saturday, the Tigers might not be there yet.