re: Why didn't LSU greats like Brandon Larson, Eddy Furniss, etc. make more noise in MLB?

There was a former Tiger baseball player on one of the local shows once and he was a late first round pick who was in the minors at the time.

The host indicated he had heard it said that college baseball was about the equivalent of AA baseball in the minors.

The player literally scoffed at that and said, maybe a big SEC game with a Friday night starter, but otherwise he said you will face much better competition and AA ball than most days playing college baseball.