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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.

And at the end, what separates those teams? Typically, it's coaching. PM's last two trips: not bunting Rhymes twice and Starting Person along with all the other joke pitching changes he made in game 3.

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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

LSU does not have a talent gap. Happy?

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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.

I'm very well aware. Some are beating it down... some aren't.

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It's a not a calculus problem to explain why Vanderbilt, Florida, UCLA, and TCU are killing it on the recruiting trail.

One of those is not like the other. But LSU has only had a talent gap 2 years... '97 and '98 with only 1 of those being championship seasons.

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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

Only 2 of the 4 schools you mentioned were private. Vandy is the only private college to win it all in the last 10 years. And rice is the only other CWS champion in the last 23 years. How the hell did a public institution win it the other 21 times (5 of them being LSU)?!?!?

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Posted by tigerbait2010

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Posted on 10/2/15 at 7:56 pm to ell_13

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And at the end, what separates those teams? Typically, it's coaching. PM's last two trips: not bunting Rhymes twice and Starting Person along with all the other joke pitching changes he made in game 3.

Do you think Corbin and all the other coaches we measure Maineri up to haven't had epic frick ups over the years? Didn't an incredible 2007 Vanderbilt team choke to Michigan in the Supers? I would imagine Coach Corbin would tell you he made plenty of stupid calls. That's just one of countless examples.

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One of those is not like the other. But LSU has only had a talent gap 2 years... '97 and '98 with only 1 of those being championship seasons.

So did Skip make some coaching errors? I really don't know, but if we had vastly superior talent than he had to have made a few coaching blunders. I don't blame him. It happens.

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Only 2 of the 4 schools you mentioned were private. Vandy is the only private college to win it all in the last 10 years. And rice is the only other CWS champion in the last 23 years. How the hell did a public institution win it the other 21 times (5 of them being LSU)?!?!?

Let me rephrase-top tier academic institutions. You understood my point that UCLA and Florida are still far superior academic institutions when measured up to LSU.

I'm just basing this off of basic trend analysis of how recruiting is unfolding. I said nothing about our historic competition being solely private schools. But if you're not catching on that the teams outside of LSU in the recruiting rankings are either private or public ivy institutions, then I don't know what to tell you. It just seems clear going forward that if top recruits are going to turn down all of that money, they want an excellent education.

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