I like this Johnson hire. Heres why...

Yep. That's exactly what we need. We usually don't have a problem getting talent. We've had a problem with the details. The fundamentals of the game. These kids should leave better players than they came in. There's no excuse for a kid to come to LSU with their potential squandered.

Pros:
- Elite recruiter
- Excellent hitting coach
- Great personality that fans and players will love
- Players coach
- Young and full of energy

Cons:
- Needs to nail the pitching coach hire
- Needs to familiarize himself with recruiting in the Southeast. This won't be nearly as hard as people think. Baseball is different than football, these kids play travel ball all over. He just needs to meet some HS/travel ball coaches. A good recruiting coach would completely alleviate any issue here.

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He's not a CEO type delegating everything to his assistants. He pays attention to the little things that win and lose baseball games. His teams are gonna be far more prepared for each opponent than what we've seen recently at LSU

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So the opposite of Pawl.
I'm sold.

You forgot to mention how young he is.

Sure I agree

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- Needs to familiarize himself with recruiting in the Southeast.

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While it would be great to continue to pick up top recruits in Florida and Texas and elsewhere in the Southeast, we can just as easily pick up some top recruits in California, Nevada, New Mexico, and Arizona and be just fine.

I think we might have found our replacement for Miriam Singer....Jay Johnson's wife Maureen:

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A decade later, she's Nevada's top compliance officer — with the lofty title of "Associate Athletic Director, Compliance, Special Assistant to the President" — and the person who Wolf Pack football coach Brian Polian calls, "the single-biggest advocate on our campus for our student-athletes."

"She deserves a ton of credit," Polian said. "She works hard for our kids. I trust her implicitly because she was an athlete and she's been at big-time places. There are some people who live in the world of, 'No.' They just tell you, 'No.' I've been at those places. Maureen is a person who says, 'You can't do that, but tell me what you're trying to achieve. What's the end goal? We'll find a way to do it together.'"

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Marshall drew a high-profile case at Nevada last season with Wolf Pack center A.J. West, whose eligibility was in question by the NCAA. Marshall joked that an entire year of her life was devoted to his case — "I'd wake up every day thinking about A.J. West," she said — but her persistence paid off.

Marshall was able to get West eligible midway through last year, basically saving the Wolf Pack's season, and this summer she got him an extra year of eligibility. It's that persistence that has made her one of the most-liked employees at Nevada.

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Maureen Johson Compliance Officer

What's one of the main issues we've seen the last few years with LSU baseball---a lack of being fundamentally sound! I think that is one thing most Ranters will agree on, we just haven't played with good fundamentals on a consistent basis. Hopefully that is all about to change!

But will he be able to understand our football coach ?