Any chance we go get Mikey Ryan and Ryan Costello back?

Costello can't hit in the Big Ten. Why would he go back to the SEC?

Costello slashline in Big Ten: .177/.329/.403
Braun slashline in SEC: .348/.474/.500

How dare you come here with facts? People just hear local “media” members talk like Costello is the missing piece without doing any research at all

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they saw him hitting a bunch of ooc homers early and think hes some beast of a player

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I think it has more to do with droping a a million on a roster and gettin the production that a few hundred thousand would have gotten you had you just kept those guys that has everyone irritated. We payed good money for Yorke, Dardar and Caraway.

Trust me you don’t want retreads it’d kill whatever culture you do have left

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Any chance we go get Mikey Ryan and Ryan Costello back?

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For the right guy, Jay may reverse course. But I seem to recall Jay implying last year that once you entered the portal, you were dead to him. Mic Paul was the exception.

As others have pointed out, Costello isn't worth chasing.

What good money are you talking about? Jay had very little money while the portal was open. Prior to the House Settlement, giving to the Coaches Committee and NIL was huge. When the schools decided how much money each sport would get with Rev share, Woodard only gave baseball $245K WHILE THE PORTAL WAS STILL OPEN. Any money available to Jay in the Coaches Committee was no longer useful. He had to scramble to get more NIL. By then, the Portal was closed.

Some of y’all need to go back and look at the timeline. The baseball portal, House Settlement, NIL/school money/Rev Share all at the same time as CJJ spending all his time in Omaha was a perfect storm of a poor portal haul.

I don't really see the appeal on either side for Costello. He had a good non-conference but has regressed alot in conference play. We'd be taking a stab on his upside, with maybe only getting a depth piece out of it. He's not from here either, so it's not like he would be coming back home.

I could see some appeal on both sides for Mikey Ryan. Solid infielder with speed and can hit a bit. Position of need. He's also a Nola kid so he could be closer to friends and family. On the other hand, alot of moving parts in the infield with Milam dropping in draft rankings, Ruckert getting plenty of run, potential portal targets coming available, etc. If Ryan didn't want that uncertainty before, I don't think he'd want it now.

I think Jay will have big goals in the portal, maybe not in quantity but in quality, to build around the core and talented incoming class. He won't be outbid for the guys he has at the top of his list this go round. And, I think he'll fight hard for the top recruits to make it here to supplement the returning core and portal class.

No breaking needed…Bud.

Tell you what, next time I see him at a fundraiser, I’ll invite you along and let the man tell you himself.

Why would we want them

It was an example of teams of all levels keeping players top, mid and lower tier that are concensus top 10 draft picks. Could have said Alabama with Lebron or Ucla with Roch. I just said GA. Tech because they are newer to the spending party. They all are near the top in spending. Point is the non traditional and traditional baseball teams are keeping their elite guys more often than not. So saying more rev share money is going to fix LSU going forward just isn't true.