Coaches Committee meeting baseball 9/16

I arrived early and checked out the new additions to the box, but I will let Classy Doge give you guys the low down on the additions.

Milam, Braswell, Dickinson and I believe Hogg were taking gtounders at SS. Milam seems to have added more weight and muscle, I'm expecting a really big year from him. He could see more time at SS next year but I believe Braswell is still the front runner there. Hogg looked good but Dickinson doesn't seem to be there yet. Small sample size for sure but he had a few errors.

Three lefties were taking batting practice but I couldn't identify them. The scoreboard posted exit velocity and angle after every bat. Jared Jones hit 114 on exit velocity earlier that day according to Jay.

Jay introduced 3 freshmen and 3 portal players. Casan Evans- Jay had as top pitcher in Tx and a player that will be ready to contribute early. Cade Arrambide- for a guy that has big power, his frame isn't filled out yet. He still has some room to grow. Mike Ryan- Was someone that caught Jay's eye early and is clearly high on. Eddie Yamin - hits how we teach players to hit. great character and locker room guy. Daniel Dickinson - speed, athletic and great defender. Anthony Eyanson - Caught Jay's eye when he was scouting someone else.

Hernandez is in Japan playing as the starting catcher for an undefeated Puerto Rico all star team.

Jay doesn't seem to believe we will go to 34 scholarships. More realistic number is 20 to 25.

Jay went into NIL quite a bit. Said he is not a fan of paying HS players unless they are 3 million signing bonus kind of guys. Also the players they do offer NIL to are basically just paying their scholarship and expenses. Some schools are clearly paying more and that is the direction we are headed. He did mention, that they could have sort of a cap on NIL in the future.

I also was able to talk to Jay one on one briefly. He told me that he expects more offense this year and that last year was not up to his standards. I asked him how his players don't burn out. He told me that he tells them if they only "like" baseball this isn't the place for them. They have to live baseball.

I asked him during the meeting if anyone was catching his eye. He told me it was too early but mentioned. Eyanson, Mayers, Cooper Williams, Evans and Schmidt.

Scrimmages will start Oct. 10. They will play Samford in Biloxi and ULL in the fall, both will be 3 seven inning games.