The scoreboard said that Scott Berry will not get to take Southern Miss baseball to the College World Series as a head coach. The thousands of black and gold voices that remained in the stands at Pete Taylor Park as Monday night became Tuesday morning said that wasn't important.
Not now, anyway.
The moments that followed the Golden Eagles' 5-0 defeat to Tennessee in the decisive third game of the Hattiesburg Super Regional were all about what Berry did accomplish in his 14 seasons in charge of the program – not what the retiring coach never will.