LSU cleaning up in the baseball portal…
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We aren't going to be able to do it their way. Just not gonna happen.
And further, most average people would really like to see some details of these 'deals' before giving a cent for something like that. Paying players, NIL or not, is a rich man's game, for a man with plenty of disposable income. I'm guessing nobody on this site except fishwater is that type of man. If you are, listen to 8dog.
And further, most average people would really like to see some details of these 'deals' before giving a cent for something like that. Paying players, NIL or not, is a rich man's game, for a man with plenty of disposable income. I'm guessing nobody on this site except fishwater is that type of man. If you are, listen to 8dog.
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NIL is nothing but buying transfers and recruits. Most of these guys aren't even having to do anything tangible that I can see for the money they are getting paid and even if they are they are getting money astronomically above market value.
I'm curious what the collectives look like. Do they just pay the players a check weekly? Do you get to choose who you fund? Is there a list of who's on the payroll? Are the coaches directly involved?
We talk about LSU throwing money around, just curious who it is. Everybody assumes, but are there any facts?
Seems like the most reasonable thing that LSU is doing is likely an LLC started by a few rich alumni who have the ear of Jay Johnson. I don't think our slush fund will accomplish anything to compete with how LSU is getting these transfers.
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[email protected]. No one is saying we can get as many as they can. But we still need it to get players and to keep players.
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If you believe the recruiting experts, we’re waiting to see how the draft shakes out. You also need to be wearing maroon shaded glasses while reading said experts information
^^^100% correct^^^
Everyone needs to read this again and understand. We need this to attract AND KEEP good players.
Everyone needs to read this again and understand. We need this to attract AND KEEP good players.
Why on earth would we wait on draft if there is someone sitting there better than what we have. That’s how you end up missing on Sonny D. And yes I know we already had a first baseman. You can’t worry about hurting feelings anymore. If there is a stud out there you better get him if you have the chance. Everyone else is figuring out it’s rent a player now. We better get right or we will get left.
The coaches know what players in the portal are draft eligible. If we are waiting on the draft to sign players that aren't draft eligible we are 17ed. All of the portal players LSU has signed are not draft eligible.
One had to know that what UTenn was doing would result in NILpalooza with other SEC schools
And Tennessee baseball was a joke 5 years ago. The guy did it with good old fashioned hustle. We seem lazy from the outside looking in. I’m willing to recant that but that’s what we look like. Lazy recruiters.
To keep Jeffrey Simmons from whom? There was no transfer portal when he was here….and players still had to sit out a year.
I’d rather spend money on my own kids that are at least loyal. I can understand why normal, hard-working middle class folks don’t or can’t give money to a system made to buy players who have no loyalty and there are no repercussions if they bolt to another place with that bag of cash.
It’s a ridiculous system and people know the deal. It doesn’t matter how much pocket change the regular folks contribute to this. We will never compete with anybody in the conference not named Vanderbilt. Hell if they ever got serious they would kick our asses too in the NIL game
We're bringing in kids with similar and better numbers to those kids everyone is pining over from last year. Dollander and Sonny D weren't some insanely great take based on their numbers last year, but look at them. We've taken a pitcher that throws 99 and one of the best players in his league.
We're just taking a slow assed approach instead of taking guys and sorting it out later. But we don't have the number of spots available that LSU has.
They brought in an All-American as in singular….a guy who everybody in the country wanted who no doubt went to the highest bidder. Little from Vandy is a guy who left because he couldn’t hold down his starting rotation spot, and is also the guy who we flat out shelled in Game 2 of the championship series. Wouldn’t call him an All-American but he probably could have helped our bullpen a bit. The Creighton guy is similar to Ledbetter, who we landed.
Two morals to the story. One, LSU continues to be the most advantaged program in all of college baseball, and you see the results of that now. Two, even they were only able to add 2-3 impact guys in the portal. You simply can’t quick fix an SEC roster with the portal alone. You have to recruit and develop from the HS ranks as the lifeblood of your program.
He can't pull a Polk and resist change and be just good enough. He's got a Natty, but he's on a shorter leash, I suspect, especially if Ole Miss wins and is good again next near (yes, what they do matters). I still think he gets two years. But this past year showed some pretty bad talent evaluation and an inability to develop pitchers. We also need a couple guys who can get on base.
You didn’t need a transfer portal or nil deal for Jeffrey Simmons to get offered a lot of money to go to bama or ole miss
People continue to say this ****, but nobody can name valid examples of either instance. We had freshmen pitchers like Walker / Kohn who everybody wanted, and a few projects that didn’t pan out. If there’s any strike against Lemonis, its that we didn’t sign enough pitchers in the 2022 class, but even after signing only 6 and losing one to the draft, we still had to chase one off to JUCO before the season even started to make the numbers work. That tells me we had too much roster imbalance from the Cohen / Cannizarro signees that made up the 2018-2021 classes.
Lot of teams in that position, not unique at all.
Ya'll are going a little crazy over LSU recruiting, when they are literally the top baseball program in the country. We will never catch them. We have never recruited like them. There aren't that many of these big-name transfers in baseball, so who cares. We don't get those players in high school anyway.
Damn I wish we could get back to the recruiting that actually built our program, and quit trying to 17 with these spoiled money-grubber pretty-boy types.
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How the hell is Lemonis resisting change? He's going after portal players. He went out and got a few grad transfers before the immediate transfer eligibility happened. You're just making **** up.
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