Let me preface this by stating the obvious: any year where you have two teams win a national championship in a Big Three sport, it was a great athletics year. The fact that it included a first title in a sport, period, and a sport where LSU views itself to be the juggernaut of just adds two very juicy cherries on the top.
But across the board, LSU athletics are doing better than they were since the COVID-19 pandemic hit. A lot of it has to do with the fact that Scott Woodward has left his mark on the program by replacing nearly every head coach that LSU athletics takes seriously (more on this later), but it goes beyond that.