re: Question: How is Vandy out-recruiting LSU in baseball?

Because baseball players going to college are after education and Vanderbilt is the IVY league school in the SEC. Baseball is not like football or basketball where most of the highly recruited players think they are going to play in the NBA or NFL. Also, baseball has a different path to the MLB.

I remember going to a Vanderbilt/LSU football game in Nashville a few years back. We systematically kicked their butts. After the game a car come by us and the students inside yelled out this: You may have beat us in football, but we are going to be doctors and lawyers someday! enough said!

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True, but the admissions standards at Vanderbilt are substantially more rigorous than at LSU. Surely a lot of recruits wouldn't qualify for admission, even if Vanderbilt laxes their standards to some degree.

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Baseball players are generally smarter than other athletes. That, and reduced standards, work fine.

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If Bertman is in BR, SEC is still lopsided for LSU, Skip had transfers in, with Mainieri they transfer out. I know they didn't sit out with Skip.

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LOL, yep, every player that came to LSU under Skip stayed at LSU.


fricking moron.

Because Maineri only recruits his type of players

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Nobody can say with any certainty what Corbin makes

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it's in the 2 mill range

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stop trying to pretend like you know stuff that nobody know

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Better school by every measure.

Non MLB prospects get Uber rich contact with alum the rest of their days.
High end education.
Smarter richer coeds.
Mlb prospects get known coach, and exposure.
What's not to like?

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Thanks for confirming he is not doing his job.

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His job title is head coach
There is already a recruiting coordinator or should he do both jobs?

I'd like to have some real, actual info on what Vanderbilt as a University actually allows its baseball program to "hand out" in full scholarships to baseball players. The assumption is that these players are not getting an NCAA scholarship, yet somehow qualify for an academic scholarship, all the while getting to skate by with lower admissions standards than the kid they are sitting next to in class.

This all sounds like hearsay; a concocted story to make Vandy look like they can stack a roster full of skilled baseball players getting full academic rides to Vandy while not measuring up to Vandy's average academics. Not likely.

And to the guy who said earlier in this thread that a "50% scholarship at Vanderbilt is worth a hell of a lot more than a 50% scholarship at LSU" -- the reverse of that is also true. Having to pay 50% of the Vanderbilt tuition is a hell of a lot more to pay than 50% of the LSU tuition.

This thread, for the most part, is full of the same baseball apologists who were saying that Skip had it worlds easier than Paul. Keep in mind that Paul has TOPS and Skip didn't (until his last two years). And Skip had to deal with 11.7 scholarships from 1991 on, just like Paul. Only difference is how they can be spread around the roster. Yes, some advantages there for Skip, but nowhere near the difference maker some make it out to be.

No one expects LSU to have the next Skip Bertman, but people need to also stop trying to diminish the level of baseball competition and championship level to detail Skip achieved.

I'm not ready to run Paul, but he needs to start trending up again this year. Maybe LSU needs a pitching science center like Vandy because they seem to be able to keep their pitchers healthy.