Possibly true, but I also think our fanbase tends to underestimate the impact of a recruit coming in and seeing a national championship contending level of excellence on one side. Meanwhile, a 2-year steaming pile of garbage on the other. If I’m an upperclassman transfer, I sure know where I’d want to spend my last season of college ball.
NIL and the portal are gonna ruin baseball faster than any sport.
At some point it becomes about the coach.....Don't believe baseball transfers are chasing dollars as much as they are chasing chances (just my opinion).
Ls-who is hellbent on buying a championship in every sport. They'll show everyone who is boss.
We really need a hard recession in the oils and gas industry, priorities **
Well, guess what, they are about to fix that. They're planning a $100M or so reno of the Box. Which will suck.
No body is denying that they bought players but now every booster can do it and the honest ones are. Before it was somewhat limited because of the consequence behind it. No consequences now. Just think what kind of team OK State could have if T Boone Pickens was still alive.
He didn't have that advantage last year, and landed Skenes and Tanks. So that's not valid.
Agree this is no season-changer for them, hell they already had 3 quality starters. It hurts much much worse for us losing our best hope at a true Friday night guy than it helps them.
This is exactly why he chose LSU. Less pressure to be the man.
Maybe not the advantage of having just won a national title, but LSU most definitely had the advantage of a 40-22 season and a postseason while Lemonis had just capped off a last place SEC finish.
Seems to me like he's done a pretty good job. Larry, Ledbetter, Yeagar, Dubrule. His hit rate is pretty high on the position players. Hujsak is going to be a big contributer next year too.
Guessing it was all about money and Johnson blowing his phone up, must have felt like he was the man again like high school
We'll get a few of those one-year guys and some will be good. So do other SEC schools. Lemonis hasn't shown that he can win under the new era. This really should be his last year if he doesn't make a regional. It's pitching that's gonna get us to a regional. There are good-enough pitchers at non-SEC schools he should recruit hard.
The "new era" is not really the issue here. Things haven't changed that much for us. We aren't talking about matching LSU here, we're talking about making the damn NCAA tournament. Or better yet, not finishing dead last in the conference. NIL isn't the biggest hindrance to that.
And if it’s NIL that’s preventing us from getting guys like Skenes and Holman, I expect to hear it from the man running our program. Not guesses and conjecture from a message board.
And don’t forget the carnival industry.***
