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Caillet, who can most often be found pounding the pavement on the recruiting trail or camped out behind home plate during batting practice studying each player's every swing, is widely considered one of the top assistant coaches in all of college baseball. In 2017, he was named C-USA Assistant Coach of the Year. The season before, Caillet was recognized as one of the two best recruiters in the league based on a poll conducted by D1baseball.com.
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Regarded as both a dogged recruiter and among the most elite hitting coaches in college baseball, Caillet takes pride in both. Most satisfying, though, is coaching up top hitters that produce record-breaking statistics.
"Recruiting and hitting are the two things that, if you ask people in the industry, I would be labeled for," he said. "But I do what I do because I want to be on the field with the hitters. That's me."
Caillet believes those two facets work in concert with one another, producing top-flight hitters due to his skills as a recruiter and the ability to mine premier talent because of his decorated history as a hitting coach.
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Caillet, who enters his 12th season as an assistant coach in Hattiesburg, serves as the team's recruiting coordinator while also working with the Golden Eagles' offense and infield defense. During the summer of 2016, Caillet was promoted to Associate Head Coach for his invaluable efforts within the program.
In 12 seasons at Southern Miss, the Golden Eagles have played in seven NCAA Regionals, one NCAA Super Regional and the 2009 College World Series. Over the last three seasons, the program has led Conference USA in almost every offensive category, while producing a school-record 94 victories over a two-year period for the program. Caillet earned the C-USA Assistant Coach of the Year award in 2017. It was the first time he achieved this honor.
During his tenure, the team has broken six single-season offensive records: runs scored (544); runs batted in (478); batting average (.324); hit batsmen (101); at bats (2,332); and on-base percentage (.422).
The Golden Eagles also led the country in double plays-turned in three consecutive seasons - 83 (2009); 84 (2010); and 81(2011) - and also finished first nationally in double plays-per game in 2010, 2011 and most recently 2013.
Caillet also has spearheaded the efforts resulting in some of the program's most-highly regarded signing pools.