10 Total Baseball Commits for 24&25 seasons from Louisiana.

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Why so heavy in Cali?

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our HC is from out there and recruits the area well. but i do think you're onto something with LA/TX needing to be recruited harder

You have to go all the way back to the 2019 class to find more than 6 players from Louisiana in a single class.

Over the past 8 years or so, we've been averaging roughly 5 Louisiana players per class.

Yeah hard to bash two great players when you have hundreds of recruits from there. You can’t judge it on just two players.

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Why so heavy in Cali? This is just my opinion, but Texas & LA should be hit harder than the West Coast.

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There are 17 players from Louisiana and Texas in those classes and 11 from California.

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Over the past 8 years or so, we've been averaging roughly 5 Louisiana players per class

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This is baseball, not football. That number seems about where you'd expect it to be.

My theory on the lack of LA players lately:

Prior to NIL, we had 11.7 scholarships that had to be spread out throughout the team. With the TOPS program, instate guys got prioritized because we didn't have to give them a scholarship. TOPS paid their way.

Since NIL, we can now use NIL funds to pay tuition for players so we can take higher ranked national players rather than filling the class with more LA players. The pro is that we technically have higher ceiling guys. The con is that we don't have as many gritty LA guys like Gavin Dugas or Cade Beloso.

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The con is that we don't have as many gritty LA guys like Gavin Dugas or Cade Beloso.

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The real problem is these guys tend to take 3-5 years to make a real impact. With the portal, guys don't need to wait around anymore to get their shot. Then, even if they're willing to wait, you can't just keep them on the roster for 4 years if some stud transfer needs a roster spot.

You'll likely still have a couple, but gone are the days of low ranked guys waiting in the wings for 3 years before they turn into 22 year old all conference players.

1. California, Texas, Florida, and Georgia have the most talent because of the organizations coming up.

2. Jay is a west coast guy with plenty ties to that area. Being the talent that way is usually really good you can see why he would recruit hard that way.

3. I do think the talent in Louisiana lately has not been as good as the past. However, I think you will see that change in the near future. They have some really good talent coming up right now in Louisiana.

Take a look at the amount of Louisiana guys that transferred out of LSU in the past 3 years and ask yourself if you would want them on this LSU team. That should answer your question on the Louisiana talent because those guys were some of the top guys in the state.

Josh Stevenson, Will Safford, Collier Cranford, Brody Drost, Brennan Holt.....just to name a few.

Also look at the Louisiana players that actually still are on the roster and the talent level of those guys. Not trying to bash anyone but the Louisiana talent level in baseball hasn't been the greatest recently.

Yea it’s making the odds of my son playing for LSU less and less. He’s one, but he’s throwing hard from the left side. Some control issues, but I plan on fixing that.

Does it really matter where these kids are from any more? Out of state guys that LSU is looking at all play in national tournaments and in games against high level players from all over. All of these kids are playing a ton of games with a ton of available data points.

This is about identifying talent that can be developed it doesn't matter where they are from. With that said you want Louisiana guys who want to play at LSU who can develop.