Anyone have the scoop on LSU Men's Tennis?

I was a little surprised he got the job with his experience, but I liked the gamble being a young alum.

On a positive note Taylor Fogleman is killing it with the women’s tennis program. #9 and already beat two top 10 teams

For those of us who know nothing but similarly don’t like to see LSU at the bottom, can you give the lay of the land.

How many programs actually competing for nattys? Are we in that resources wise? If not what tier are we in?

College tennis is a farce.

The coaches are all afraid to recruit the way most other NCAA sports do.
Tennis coaches could look for talented young American players in places like Florida, California and Texas, where there are hundreds.
But no, they choose to simply scan the list of young international players -- some of whom are already professionals -- and pick from those.

Eight of the 10 guys on the LSU mens tennis roster are foreigners. To me, that's a ridiculous number. (The womens roster shows 6 of 11).

The international players see the US colleges as a great way to further develop their game -- and, as a bonus, their rich parents won't have to pay for most of it.

Coaches defend the practice, saying that they won't win unless they fill their rosters with internationals. But if they all had the guts to diminish the practice and start recruiting young Americans, schools could compete on their own merits. And maybe a few more people like me, who enjoy tennis, would enjoy the college sport more because we'd be seeing the next wave of talented American players.

As it stands now, I couldn't care less whether LSU wins in tennis.
Just my opinion. But I know I'm not alone on thinking this.

No. No I dont.

Im not sure who the coach or players are, but im willing to bet if we loaded up on some louisiana baseball studs that werent quite good enough to play for LSU we would be winning championships left and right.

And yes there is a strong coralation between baseball and tennia sucess so you can save that argument buds!

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College tennis is a farce.

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I would imagine women's tennis has come a long way since I last watched a match but it was back in the early 90's I was on campus for reason I cannot remember and it happened that there was a women's tennis match going on that day so curious I walked in - free admission of course no one was there to even check anyone at the entrance.

it was a match against Auburn and they way it worked the is there were 6 singles matches - our one against their one, our two against their to and so on until the 6 seeds an there were three head to head doubles matches.

This was still fairly early in the Title 9 stuff and the women had to have as many scholarships as men and with football getting 85 of course women's sports like tennis gave out full scholarships to make up the deficit.

Well as I watched the first 3 seeds were pretty good players but once you got to the 4, 5 and 6 it got to be progressively more comical. I feel pretty certain I could have beaten the 5 and 6 seeds for each team and I at my best was a mediocre tennis player. And this is SEC tennis I could imagine what you would see at lower levels and with golf, etc.

I would assume as the years have past and opportunities have grown for girls the product is better now than it was then?

I went to the lsu rice match here in Houston. All I can say is the number one player was a freshman sho held his own against rice number one. And the number two was a sophomore. So maybe the team is on the younger side with some potential. They struggled with doubles but I think that is more of a reflection of youth. Your best doubles teams play together longer.

Danny Bryan is the coach. Great coach The Bryan family is one of the top tennis families in LA
His son is top Junior player

Need to get the players. Not much Bayou Tradition $ making it down to Men's tennis unfortunately

Needs the players....

College tennis is a farce.

The coaches are all afraid to recruit the way most other NCAA sports do.
Tennis coaches could look for talented young American players in places like Florida, California and Texas, where there are hundreds.
But no, they choose to simply scan the list of young international players -- some of whom are already professionals -- and pick from those.

Eight of the 10 guys on the LSU mens tennis roster are foreigners. To me, that's a ridiculous number. (The womens roster shows 6 of 11).

The international players see the US colleges as a great way to further develop their game -- and, as a bonus, their rich parents won't have to pay for most of it.

Coaches defend the practice, saying that they won't win unless they fill their rosters with internationals. But if they all had the guts to diminish the practice and start recruiting young Americans, schools could compete on their own merits. And maybe a few more people like me, who enjoy tennis, would enjoy the college sport more because we'd be seeing the next wave of talented American players.

As it stands now, I couldn't care less whether LSU wins in tennis.
Just my opinion. But I know I'm not alone on thinking this.
100%

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can not tell you how many times we/ my son were told by college tennis coaches “ I do not recruit Americans!!!

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Your son wasn’t good enough…

I’m from Brusly, La and was offered by LSU, Memphis, UNC, Bama, Purdue, and Penn st

It’s far easier process to recruit Americans. Trust me the coaches want Americans. For multiple reasons: it’s cheaper, more straightforward, far easier to clear admissions with both school and ncaa, helps easier to get fan support, etc