re: LSU Baseball 2024 (and beyond) Recruiting Thread

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I agree
It just seems very west coast heavy.
That’s fine, but having Louisiana kids should also have some priority.

I think he’s doing a tremendous job. It would just be nice to have a little more in state talent coming in. I truly believe that matters. They don’t win the championship without it last year.

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All depends on the talent LA is producing and are we getting that top talent, if so, some year w emight only have 2-3 LA kids in the class because thats all worth taking. Other years might be deeper and see more like 4-5 LA kids in a class.

For example in the 2022 class the Top 3 players in the state were Guidry, Frey, Ruddell and we got all 3 of them. They were all ranked Top 300 in PG. After that it was a drop off to #439 overall, which happened to be Luke Hill and a bit of bummer we missed on him, but I'd say we got the top LA talent we went after.

2023 we got Brown, Anderson & Lape. Top 150 overall players and Top 3 in the state. Next down was Walsh at #374 overall as a RHP but we got 2 much higher ranked RHP in Lape and Seo so dont see an issue there.

For 2024 we got the Top 3 players in the state again, all Top 100 overall in PG in Schmidt, Victorian and Ryan. #4 player in state is Federico who is #141 in the class and a MIF so we might regret not taking him, but next down from him is #250 overall John Pearson, a commit, and then #405 Grant Breaux who is also a commit. So that's 5/6 state's top players there. I'd say 5 is a really healthy number of in-state kids. In the 2024 class Breaux is the lowest ranked commit too.

Jay is still recruiting the state hard just being more selective than Mainieri ever was. Mainieri routinely had sub 500 ranked in-state players here. And yes some worked out well, but many were just a bit over their head here as well like Josh Stevenson (I realize he was a bit of a legacy), Will Hellmers, Will Safford, Collier Cranford, Mitchell Sanford...etc. I know we hope a lot of those guys turn out like Cade Beloso but many dont , and keep in mind Beloso had quite the roller coaster of a career here before becoming a surprise 5th year starter.