Maurice Hampton Question

No, spot is gone

No. Only 25 each year

Basically, the only benefit is one less person has to be "processed" whether transfer, booted off team, asked to explore other opportunities, etc

We lose the spot if he signed an actual letter of intent. I'm holding out hope that he didn't. I believe there are occasions where recruits sign ceremonial letters that are just for show at signing ceremonies. Hopefully we assured him a spot but didn't actually provide an LOI for him to sign until after the MLB draft shakes out.

This was brought up in relation to the news of Carter Stewart signing a 6 year, $7MM contract with a team in Japan. I don't know the veracity of the statement and whether or not it takes into account the draft signing bonus (it probably does).

But the only two high school draftees to make $7MM in the first six pro years are Bryce Harper and Mike Trout. Everyone else that's made that much in their first six pro years has been drafted out of college and effective short-cutted their route to the majors.

if he's unhappy starting out in A ball, can he enter the MLB portal ?

we cant ever take more than 25 unless we didn't sign more than that the year before. so if we sign someone and they don't show up, it doesn't matter, they still count to the number, so we can't take an additional person.

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We lose the spot if he signed an actual letter of intent. I'm holding out hope that he didn't. I believe there are occasions where recruits sign ceremonial letters that are just for show at signing ceremonies. Hopefully we assured him a spot but didn't actually provide an LOI for him to sign until after the MLB draft shakes out.

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Can that be done within the rules?
If so, that could really help LSU in this situation. Was he on full scholarship in baseball also?

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Any offer of a scholarship to play football counts. It doesn't have to be a LOI. If he has an offer of a scholarship to play baseball and he participates in football summer workouts, he counts against football. As far as I can tell, I can see only two ways around this. If he didn't sign anything, he could walk on until his situation is resolved. This would mean he wouldn't be committed to anybody and I think the probability of this is zero.

The second way would have been for him to sign a baseball LOI, but not participate in summer workouts. Show up at fall camp and then he would count. If he didn't we could use his scholarship this year on someone else and sign 26.

I'm sure there are exceptions, but baseball players get partial scholarships because you only get like 11.5 for the entire team.

I don't think it's common (or maybe not even allowed) for incoming freshmen football recruits to participate in summer workouts.

But, the MLB draft signing deadline is in the beginning of July, while freshmen don't arrive on campus until the end of July, so we should know what he's doing several weeks before he would get to school.

Players usually start workouts soon after they hit campus at the beginning of summer

Regarding two sport athletes, they don't count against the football scholarship counter until they hit they field; until then, they count against the other sport