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Posted on 4/2/26 at 11:16 am to SpartanSoul
Yorke has to be his biggest challenge yet. Hell, Yorke would be the biggest challenge of any strength and conditioning coach.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 11:26 am to SoloTiger
quote:Signed the #2 portal class according to some and consensus top 5 among college baseball sites ….
LSU went bargain hunting in the portal this past year and it shows.
Jay just whiffed, it happens, but blaming money is a losers road
This post was edited on 4/2/26 at 11:28 am
Posted on 4/2/26 at 3:04 pm to lsupride87
They overhyped who he brought in, but honestly none of these dudes (Caraway, Yorke, Dardar, etc.) were Top 30 portal players.
He didn't get any high profile guys.
He didn't get any high profile guys.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 3:30 pm to SpartanSoul
Even if combined revenue sharing and NIL are higher than other SEC schools, for every dollar revenue sharing is lower than the completion, baseball has to fund raiseNIL to make up for it. If we were already on par with our revenue sharing all of the NIL they raise would give them an advantage. Schools like MSU, Ole Miss and Ark have made baseball rev sharing a priority. LSU has not. Maybe those other schools don’t give much to women’s sports, golf, tennis, or swimming, etc and put that to baseball. When Jay is “whining” about his lack of revenue sharing, I don’t take it as a complaint against basketball or any other sport. I take it as a complaint how some of his competitors get more from their schools than LSU provides.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 3:35 pm to SpartanSoul
Meh.....players care more about money in their pocket over shiny new gyms these days
Posted on 4/2/26 at 3:38 pm to SoloTiger
I read a quote from Tony V right after he left Tennessee. He said Tennessee spent more on NIL than LSU but he said LSU was more efficient. I took that to mean that rather than spend most of your NIL funds on a couple of superstars we spread it out on more good players. Kiffen said something similar at his press conference this week. He was talking about needing depth at WR so we signed 8 guys. He said we could have spent that money instead on 2 superstar receivers but then you would still have the problem of no depth at WR.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 3:42 pm to SpartanSoul
We will never not be top 3. Everyone questioning this is trying to find something to be overly dramatic and concerned about.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 3:45 pm to bbnitiger
Yes...I agree, but when your evals on your "Tier 2 guys" turn out more like Tier 3 or Tier 4 guys (Carraway, Yorke, Simpson, etc). you aren't winning a championship.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 3:53 pm to tigerskin
quote:Hmm, we’ve been told for years that we have to keep the cheap, rinky dink LF bleachers from the old Box because we have to have the shiny new gym among other things, and that it isn’t fiscally possible to have both.
Meh.....players care more about money in their pocket over shiny new gyms these days
Posted on 4/2/26 at 3:55 pm to SoloTiger
I think it’s still too early to close the books on some of these guys. Hopefully Dardar keeps it up and Moore comes back and delivers. I don’t think Yorke is that far off. I wasn’t really expecting that much from Simpson, and Caraway’s production was mainly during the playoffs so I was hoping he would be playoff Caraway but instead it looks like regular season Caraway. But with guys like Pearson and Braun stepping up, and let’s hope that continues, we may not need to rely on Simpson and Caraway for anything but depth.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 4:01 pm to bbnitiger
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When Jay is “whining” about his lack of revenue sharing, I don’t take it as a complaint against basketball or any other sport.
Revenue sharing is capped at $20.5 million this year so any complaining is indeed wanting to take money from another sport since any increase in baseball will directly decrease another sports share. The better way is to raise NIL since it is not limited and will not directly impact other sports.
There has been zero evidence provided that LSU is not competitive when rev share and NIL are added together. If you can show where LSU is in relation to other programs when both rev share and NIL are taken into consideration, then by all means please do.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 4:50 pm to SpartanSoul
Yes, it all comes out of the same pot, but my point was, there are other schools in our conference able to carve out a larger revenue share. Those schools must put a higher priority on baseball than women’s sports are non revenue sports. I have no idea what out totals are, but if, for example we currently get $300k revenue sharing and raise $2 million in NIL, wouldn’t it be better to get $500k in revenue sharing and still raise the $2 million in NIL? The 5% pool we are in is about $1 million total. I’m not saying take any from football or either basketball program. It could be coming from the non revenue generating sports. The total revenue for baseball is a lot more than any of the rest of the schools in this 5% pool. That might not seem like much of a difference, but it would show Jay an effort is being made to close the gap with other schools. As a baseball fan, I wouldn’t mind this at all. Of course I’m sure a parent of a kid on the swimming, golf, tennis, or beach volleyball teams wouldn’t like it.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 4:57 pm to MOT
That was before NIL. Now you get neither which is why Lane Kiffin shelved Ole Miss stadium expansion
This post was edited on 4/2/26 at 5:18 pm
Posted on 4/2/26 at 4:59 pm to SpartanSoul
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There has been zero evidence provided that LSU is not competitive when rev share and NIL are added together.
Jay isn't interested in being "competitive." He is interested in being number 1. His resume' the last 3 years supports that request
This post was edited on 4/2/26 at 5:00 pm
Posted on 4/2/26 at 5:18 pm to bbnitiger
quote:
re other schools in our conference able to carve out a larger revenue share
That is irrelevant. The athletes only care how much the total is. If LSU has the better NIL then they should use it.
LSU has the capability to be competitive in baseball without shorting other sports. People posting nonsense on here don't have the capability to understand the nontangible benefits that the other programs bring the University and the purpose of the Athletic Department.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 5:53 pm to SpartanSoul
That's a great weight room for a program that STILL loses money.
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