re: So LSU has Tanner Reaves while Kansas has a kid with 24 HRs from LSU-E

Yep..Perfect game has missed on a lot of their ratings lately

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It’s be nice to know exactly how guys will turn out

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i know right?

And for the OP, the #1 JUCO recruit in the country last year, Tyler Myatt, out of Walters St in E Tennessee committed to Tennessee. He only started in 17 games, hit .247 on the season and had 3 HRs. This was after a JUCO season where he was the national JUCO POY and won the JUCO triple crown, hitting .484 w 31 HRs and 110 RBIs

I know it has to be fun for people to play Monday morning QB, but recruiting JUCO players isn't an exact science

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But we didn’t have a 2nd baseman, competition makes people better, quit just giving people spots

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We signed two players from the portal to compete for the second base position, both with better numbers last year in D1 than Tyson Leblanc had in JUCO. We also signed 2 freshmen. We had plenty of competition to fill the void at second. None of them panned out

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I don't know him or his situation, but I'd be willing to bet he would've came here if LSU was interested regardless of whether or not SS was on the table.

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We just watched a couple of freshmen who Jay didn’t push out leave for sure starting roles with good power conference teams. Why would a guy come here and wait a year to play the position he can start day one at somewhere else, especially if it’s his money year?

In an era where players can transfer at will, most won’t go somewhere to wait in line when they can go to another good or better program and start immediately at their favored position. The guy we’re talking about helped his draft stock by starting at SS when that would have never been a possibility here. He made the right decision for him and will make more in the draft because of it.

Should we have offered him in hindsight, even though his numbers weren’t overwhelming considering the stage- sure. Should he have come here- no.

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called player evaluation, and quite frankly, JJ and staff failed miserably this past year.

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but we shoved Reaves in the line up w two years at .230 and no power. The missed evaluation is one thing

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Alot of these transfer kids were committed before we were done playing! Therefore we had to get kids who were considered best of the rest

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Leblanc wasn’t a transfer. He wasn’t a portal player.

He graduated from LSU-E and signed with Kansas. When do JC kids sign? Earlier than portal guys, right?

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Depending on their recruitment, guys that go D1 after their sophomore year may be signed by November of their sophomore year. It's just a whole different thing with JUCOs vs Portal. And even JUCOs vs HS.

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Exactly

Leblanc was probably signed way before all these portal guys.

Comparisons to them aren’t appropriate.

The other thing to consider is that the hit rate on guys from LSUE isn't all that spectacular. We've managed to do pretty well with Catchers from there (hope we grab another one this year or next), but for a long time (including Leblanc's whole tenure there) they played a bad schedule and put up video game numbers. And then guys would wilt at the next level, even if the next level was the Southland Conference or even NAIA.

So letting one guy slip through the cracks to the most diligent JUCO recruiting staff in the country isn't the fatal mistake some people here want to make it out to be.

Transfer/portal