re: Tarik Biberovic reportedly turned down WW and 7 million dollars to come and play for LSU

The baseball freaks are incapable of realizing that Jay had and has had and will always have the best budget in the country. They can’t blame this years failure on lack of money. It’s borderline impossible to miss the field of 64 with our baseball investment

I've always thought he might actually be Johnny, but Collis makes way more sense.

I have actually represented professional basketball players here in the US and overseas, including several who played in euroleague conpetition.

I agree and disagree with parts of your post but do think youre on the right track.

quote:

---

Against SEC competition though not really much of a step down but a different look for them. SEC is loaded with talent nowadays (NBA/G-league/overseas league talent everywhere), the big difference is in their pro leagues they are playing much older on average folks who are going to be way more polished in their games....however they may not see collections of athletes like they have previously on some SEC teams we play.

---

I will tell you that the level of play and talent in euroleague is better than SEC. There are multiple guys on every euroleague team who has NBA talent and skill but for whatever reason didn’t make it.

My general opinion about the last 4-5 guys on each NBA teams bench are entirely replaceable by any number of guys scattered through the g-league/Europe and you would never know the difference.

There are more lottery pick / potential guys in sec but skill as a whole I think is stronger in euroleague.

quote:

---

I think the hardest part is just adjusting to the type of game played in NCAA vs. what they are used to in euro leagues; its definitely different,

---

100% agree with this.

Euroleague and international ball is so much more physical than what is allowed in college and nba.

Americans going to play overseas often times have difficulty adjusting. Likewise, defensively, it is a huge adjustment coming from international to play ncaa.

One other interesting thing that could draw a lot of interest for international players is coaching style….a lot of the international coaches are absolute hard asses who are the opposite of player-friendly.

I could easily see interest in wanting to get a bag to come play here in the US for coaches who have become more player friendly.

Just ridiculous. So called college basketball is just NBA LITE

quote:

---

Economics. Same reason black Americans are better than white Americans. They're aren't many white ghettos in the United States, as opposed to Europe. They don't have much opportunity outside of sports, so they see failure as less of an option.

---

This is false.

Young black kids on average develop much sooner than young white kids. There is also a perception that they are better (in part because of the general averages).

Hundreds of thousands of young white boys quit basketball in America because they can’t compete at early ages with young black boys. Had they stuck with it they would have closed the gap later on and caught back up.

This is why, whenever a white dude reaches top levels at a traditionally black dominated sport/position, he often came from an area that is predominantly white, and therefor didn’t have that dynamic. (I.e. Cooper DeJean is from Iowa)

This has been studied but it’s an uncomfortable truth and the mitigating solutions are even more uncomfortable

Both are true, actually. Obviously American blacks have an advantage, due to reasons from a few hundred years ago.

Yes, it's not solely because of that, but you're being naive and dismissive to not acknowledge it as truth.

Well you’ve been fooled all this time. Because Jay stated multiple times how he didn’t have the NIL backing and amount that many other SEC teams had and spent on their rosters this past season. It had been reported that LSU only spent around 1.6 million on this roster due to lack of NIL funding whereas SEC teams like Mississippi State and others spent well over 3 million.



So no, LSU most definitely does not have anywhere close to the best budget in college baseball. Hell they are middle of the pack at best in the SEC.