re: Sobering Info About LSU's Baseball Program

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It's weird that I get labeled as a negatiger when the basis of my argument is that I think we ARE good and good enough to win it year in and year out. Our teams have certainly been good enough.

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Okay, well lots of teams are good enough to win it all year in and year out. I would assume you'd know that the recruiting rankings are typically the same teams every year.

The point is that you refuse to acknowledge LSU doesn't have some gigantic talent gap between itself and the rest of the top 10. You make it sound like all the top recruits are just beating down the door to play for LSU baseball, when the reality is that baseball is a different type of recruiting demographic compared to college football.


More often than not these families come from upper middle class to even very affluent families, and not every family values a shot at a national title over a big scholarship at an excellent private institution. Hell, they can get both of those for the most part. It's a not a calculus problem to explain why Vanderbilt, Florida, UCLA, and TCU are killing it on the recruiting trail.

I'm at LSU and am proud I'll have a good degree with no debt, but LSU is a great value school. Meanwhile, the 4 schools I listed above beating us on the trail are big time academic institutions. Our biggest competition in college baseball are big time private institutions, and I can't get myself to be mad at Maineri when he loses a top recruit from a nice suburb to Vanderbilt