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re: Sun Belt Freshman of the Year in portal
Posted on 5/22/26 at 10:01 am to CWILKS3
Posted on 5/22/26 at 10:01 am to CWILKS3
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Jay/LSU cannot talk directly to the player until he is officially in the portal.
Correct. However, they’re absolutely going to be looking at his film and analytics for the next couple of weeks and I’m sure they’ll have a visit scheduled as soon as June 1st gets here.
Yep. That is also why guys like this announce so early, so folks know they will be entering and can look at what they offer.
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Posted on 5/22/26 at 11:02 am to ProjectP2294
That guy doesn’t look like a non-athlete. He hit .384 as a freshman in a solid league. I don’t think that’s the same as taking a Carraway, Simpson, or Yorke.
Posted on 5/22/26 at 11:18 am to ProjectP2294
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A positionless non-athlete who sells out for power and swings and misses a ton. This is the exact type of player Jay was referencing this year when he said we went after the wrong type of guys in the portal.
It can be hard to differentiate between players from G5 and lower level competition schools.
Dickinson at Utah Valley was like .367, 18 HRs, and 32 SBs.
Simpson at High Point was .389, 22 HRs, 24 2B, 14 SBs.
I thought Simpson might be a big time addition last year. It's hard to say how guys will do when they take a big jump in competition.
FWIW, it's nice when you can bring in an SEC guy like Stanny or Holman as their production basically replicates.
I also think the ACC translates well.
Posted on 5/22/26 at 11:46 am to CWILKS3
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That guy doesn’t look like a non-athlete. He hit .384 as a freshman in a solid league.
He struck out 30% of the time in conference in the Sunbelt. He was 1 for 10 with 6 Ks against Southern Miss, which is one of the closest approximations of SEC level pitching you're going to get in the Sunbelt. And this was in the last series of the year, not early in the year before he became a regular starter.
This post was edited on 5/22/26 at 11:48 am
Posted on 5/22/26 at 11:47 am to mdomingue
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The portal does not open for more than a week, so I assume they meant planning to hit the portal.
That's a distinction without a difference.
It doesn't matter if the portal is open or not. If you say you are entering the portal, you are basically in the portal.
Posted on 5/22/26 at 12:01 pm to friendlyobservation
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What's his natural position catcher? If he is, does he have a good glove? I don't see them snagging a C without them having a really good glove or either Bide/Serna leave unexpectedly.
I don’t know that either of those guys are good enough to play catcher at this or any other level. Hopefully Jay can get them to switch positions and we can bring in someone much more capable. Serna may improve, but arrambide has been here for 2yrs and the light still hasn’t come on defensively.
Posted on 5/22/26 at 12:02 pm to 304tiger
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It can be hard to differentiate between players from G5 and lower level competition schools.
The sunbelt is likely to have 4/5 NCAA tourney teams
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