re: LSU Baseball 2025 (and beyond) Recruiting Thread

Any Louisiana kid that could potentially play at LSU but ends up at ULL or Tech won't find their way back to LSU.

Some of the other in state schools, yeah, but not those two. The potential problem that is simmering is that those two schools are locking down a lot of the top in state talent.

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Any Louisiana kid that could potentially play at LSU but ends up at ULL or Tech won't find their way back to LSU.

Some of the other in state schools, yeah, but not those two. The potential problem that is simmering is that those two schools are locking down a lot of the top in state talent.

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You really don't miss anything

Yeah, there's some kids that have historically not made it to the mound as a starter or at all early on, and those schools are selling them on coming in and competing for a starter spot. Even saying as much that they are aware of bigger school interests, but telling them how do you want to project for the next level (starter vs reliever)

But, no matter how you slice it, it's still a great spot for LSU to be in, as long as they can keep it up

What a violent swing he has. Looking forward to seeing him in purple and gold!

yea ULL has built itself into a top 40 program overall. Great program that does a great job of taking guys that in the past with Paul would have been fringe LSU commits and developing them. Those kids have no chance to get to LSU with the monster Jay has built unless its transfer.

La Tech is another one that will prolly be a top 40 baseball program in the next 5 years using much of the same strategy. The sports science department headed by Cr Crotin is one of the best in the country when it comes to integrating tech into programming and using the tech to test, train, test to develop the players

both have beautiful beautiful stadiums.

McNeese is another top 100 in state program; not at the level of the two above but still good consistent program.


I dont think many people understand how good you have to be to even go to a place like ULL or La Tech and then what the next level player that goes to LSU looks like. Even with posters in this thread.

Kids that go to LSU are no longer projects. They are physically ready to play immediately. Just so many misconceptions because people dont understand a couple concepts when it comes to college baseball-

less than 10% of youth players will play HS ball
less than 7% of HS players will play College ball

of that 7%

less than 2% of HS players will play D1 baseball
less than 1% of HS players will play at a top 100 school
less than 0.25 will play at an SEC school

so when yall see a kid dominating at the HS ranks....understand he might play 10 other kids the whole year that will go to an SEC school and maybe 25 that will go to a top 100 school. 98% of the players he is going against will never even be close to the same level of competition he will see in College at an SEC school.

why do you think college coach rely on metrics so much? or the big WWBA or PBR tournaments film? its because those tournaments kids are playing against other D1 kids. and Metrics dont lie

kids have to be so physically developed now a days too.

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Johnson said it himself and acknowledged he’s not a fan of it, but in LSU’s position with NIL and soon to be 25 scholarships, the best way for LSU to build a championship roster is to the turn the roster over. The William Schmidt’s and Gavin Guidry’s are still going to recruited by LSU. But guys like Beloso and Gavin Dugas may not be. And I get it. Baseball players are hard to project. If you are in LSU’s position and you can go get a player who has already shown they can produce in college, there’s less risk.

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exactly

when i said....ULL actually develops...that wasnt a swipe at Jay nor the LSU program. It was more just a fact about where the program is.

There will be some development with pitch development, adding bodyweight/strength etc but in general....they are going to take top 150 HS players that are ready to play day 1 or transfers....why wouldnt they? Its the smart play

yep and I dont care if you dont like ULL fans or La tech fans etc.....but in baseball you should be pulling for those 2, McNeese, Southeastern etc because they are all stacked with Louisiana players, especially ull and tech.

PBR recently released a JUCO top 50. Our two commits were top 10. Plog number 2, Harden 10.

Harden really went off this fall from what I could tell.

Are JUCO years no longer counting as NCAA years for baseball too?