Oh dear God. No they aren’t. You still have to care, to spend NIL money. You could have paid baseball players under the table just like football. And like you said, they’ve had success.
Get yourself together son
Not going to get into the specifics, but that's coming from a couple of people with ties to several of the bigger summer ball programs(east coast, EBC, and a couple of others) along with talking with the Whitesox scout, Mariners scout, and a dodgers scout about it.
think what you want, but I assure you this isn't just some fluff in the sky stuff, it's already happened to three youngsters that were going to commit with us out of florida and the alabama panhandle that backed out due to NIL talks with teams like UGA and Bama that's why I stated them specifically.
I don't post a whole lot about other sports because I didn't play any of those past highschool but I played baseball through college and was in the rays organization for a few years.
baseball in general is my passion, not just mississippi state, I work with some pretty talented kids, a couple that are D1/draft guys out of highschool and they are all saying the same things. NIL money in baseball is becoming a thing simply because the bamas and ugas of the world have so much NIL coming in they've got plenty to spread around.
if you don't think they'll use that to even the playing field as far as facilities and history go you're dead wrong. LSU will always have a great program but they are about to blow up again and are pushing a lot of NIL money, a few of the big time older transfers they got because of the NIL deals they were offered.
so just fair warning, we are about to become very mediocre at everything if we don't start raising more NIL. It may make you feel better to blame it purely on coaching and that's justifiable. I'm not saying our coaching staff is killing it right now and just doesn't have the players. We should always be a regional team and expect to host every so often but the chance for us to really build a consistent national championship baseball program is slipping the more NIL becomes bigger.
I am interested in getting. Better understanding of why you feel that bama and UGA don't have the same upside as state now that nil is in baseball?
If i got to choose between the draft, playing in front of 13k in college and covering 50-60% of your own tuition(state) or go play at uga or bama in front of what 6-8k but getting paid 200k to come there, I'm probably taking the 200k and full ride over playing in front of 11-13k on weekends and covering a large portion of my tuition.
