re: Mo Hampton has entered the transfer portal

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He was way behind

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People keep saying this and I just don’t get the reasoning. Behind Hellmers who started game 1 with less than a week of practice at the position? Behind Bianco who can’t hit a beach ball much less a baseball? Hampton was hitting pretty well in the early going his freshman year last year before his injury. A lot of kids missed a lot of baseball when the season stopped to fall ball. He can’t have been that far behind.

CPM watches practice, we don’t. I’m willing to assume the hall of fame coach is right on this one.

You bring up practice a lot. I like to counter with Bianco and Hellmers and PM’s shite evaluation track record. Time is a flat circle.

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Money is at least part of it though. PT is too I’m sure. But I doubt PM wanted to go from paying nothing for him to footing the whole bill.

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I am late to the party. Isn't he (Hampton) on football scholarship? Or am I off base about which "he" we're talking about?

If it is Hampton, his parents paid his way through PDS/MUS, super elite travel ball, and elite private training since he was like 8 years old. His middle school education cost more than OOS tuition at LSU. Throw in what they spent on baseball and the difference is laughable.

He’s not that good at baseball. Y’all are acting like he’s Jared Mitchell

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If it is Hampton, his parents paid his way through PDS/MUS, super elite travel ball, and elite private training since he was like 8 years old. His middle school education cost more than OOS tuition at LSU. Throw in what they spent on baseball and the difference is laughable.

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You sure Hampton’s parents were footing that entire bill? I went to both, and once they started recruiting athletes, financial aid was used for most of those kids.

Smart move

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Then this could just boil down to a scholarship numbers thing. Baseball didn’t have 100% to give him, so in that regard Mainieri is correct, it’s a bad idea.

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I do wonder if/how the scholarship conversation played into all of this. I believe his family is pretty well-off as others have said, but the scholarship issue could also just be adding insult to injury for Mo.

Seems like it’s likely a lot of frustration just coming to a head. When you’re on a football scholarship at a school like LSU, the expectation is that you are first and foremost a football player. That means missing significant portions of the baseball offseason. Combine that with the short season last year, COVID isolation, etc. and it’s just an all around shitty situation.

But if he leaves the football team (regardless of whether he picks up a baseball scholarship) that’s another 2019 initial counter wasted. I would think it puts Paul in a tough spot - if he tells Hampton he should stick with both sports and Hampton leaves out of frustration, Mainieri is the bad guy. But if he tells Hampton “sure, no problem” he’s still the bad guy for wasting a football scholarship.

The only outcome that’s not a net loss for LSU is Hampton sticking it out with both sports which seems to be the suggestion Maineiri made when asked, if you believe him.

Sucks but I wish the best for the kid. Sounds like his passion is definitely baseball.

How do you tell a potential first round draft pick that is ready to quit football to dedicate himself to baseball that he has no spot here? Mainieri is fricking trash.