Northwestern State University of Louisana

Head baseball coach for 18 years while also serving as an assistant football coach 1969-1983 for three head coaches … noted as a dynamic recruiter and an outstanding receivers coach in football, who signed many top players, including Bobby Hebert … won 327 games as baseball coach while NSU was independent in eight of his 18 seasons … guided 1974 Demons to NAIA District 30  championship and the NAIA Regionals … managed 1982 Demons to Trans America Athletic Conference championship… coached All-Americans Danny Turner and Darryl Woods … he lettered in baseball in 1963-64 for the Demons, then was a graduate assistant coach as the 1967 Demons won the Gulf States Conference title and NCAA College Division playoffs under football coaching great Jack Clayton in his only spring at the helm … Smith became a very successful high school football coach in Louisiana and Texas after leaving his alma mater … Herbie’s presenter is his friend and NSU coaching colleague, 1976 Hall of Fame inductee Don Guidry.