re: We still going to deny that Jay missed on a lot of portal guys?

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So tired of hearing this bullshite. I have seen teams with 1/100 of the talent of this team not make the mental mistakes or errors we make. Also have significantly better plate discipline. Spare me with the garbage. There is plenty of talent on the roster.

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There’s talent, but it’s not nearly the talent a lot of people think it is. And some of the best teams—in most college sports, actually—have been relatively old and experienced. A bunch of 4 and 5 year guys who may not have pro ball in their futures. We’re relatively young at some key positions:

3B—2nd year guy who didn’t play much last year. Hasn’t played every day since 2 years ago at WM. Seeing this level of pitching every day certainly affects his plate discipline. The 5th and 6th pitchers on most SEC teams are probably better than the best arm he faced in high school. Last year we had Michael Braswell at 3B, who was a 4-year starter in the SEC, the previous 3 years at SS.

1B—Braun is hitting great lately, but is still just a freshman and had a 3-28 slump earlier in the season. And he has 2 home runs. Jared Jones was a 3-year starter who finished with 64 home runs for a career, 3rd in LSU history. He was an older, 3rd year guy with 113 starts and almost 400 PAs coming into last year when he slashed .323/.414/.613 (1.027 OPS) with 22 homers, 15 doubles, and 76 RBI. Started most of the ‘23 NC season.

2B—Dardar is a 5th year Sr. and 24 years old. He has experience, but only one year at a P5 school, last year at Kansas State. He played at Columbia before then. He’s been up and down, but is a terrible athlete and one of the worst defensive 2B I can remember at LSU. Dicksinson was a 3rd year guy last year, but was one of the best players on the team who was drafted in the 6th round. There is a HUGE drop off there in talent between him and Dardar.

SS—Milam is a push

C—Arambidie is a 2nd year guy. Serna is a freshman. Both may wind up being better than Hernandez offensively if they stay 4 years, but they’re not quite there yet. And they are way way, way behind defensively. Hernandez was a Sr. last year and had started 144 games behind the plate before coming to LSU.

Pitching—Eyanson was a Jr. who had 111 innings pitched and 16 starts coming into last year. Schmidt probably has better stuff, but he’s not nearly the fricking dog Eyanson was last year yet. Maybe he makes the jump and gets there next year. Or even towards the end of this year. He’s just not quite there mentally yet. He doesn’t have the experience.

Evans is sort of an enigma. He dominated last year coming out of the bullpen. Moving to a Friday night starter is a huge leap. He’s looked dominant at times. And even when he hasn’t had done a really good job of limiting damage and keeping us in the game. I think he’s capable of being a dig, and will take a huge step between this year and next imo. But he’s not a 6’3” lefty who’s draft eligible and is going to wind up going #3 overall in the draft. I think people forget just how great Anderson flashed at times his freshman season. He had some ups and downs, but was still 4-2 with a 3.99 ERA in 9 starts and 18 appearances as freshman. (And I’m pretty sure he was coming off Tommy John his freshman year and hadn’t pitched in 2 seasons). Some people thought he kinda came out of nowhere last year, but I think I called him being our Friday night guy last year sometime in March the year before. He was just different and you could tell he was going to be a dog.

DH—we’ve had a rotating door there this year that nobody seemed to want to grab a hold of until recently when Serna started cruising a few weeks ago, and Cade finally followed him up after missing that whole week a couple weeks ago. Both really nice offensive players but nothing like Frey was once he got going and settled in at the DH spot. That really kind of changed our team. He slashed .331/.420/.641 (1.061 OPS) with 13 homers, 15 doubles, 50 RBI, and was a great athlete and base runner (was 4-4 on SB, but was fast around the base paths). But he was also a 3rd year guy who had played on the ‘23 NC team.

OF—push (Brown and Curiel are a year older and better, but Stanny’s injury set him back a bit). But there’s no Josh Pearson who contributed significantly to the ‘23 NC team.

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$25 per victory and all problems disappear.

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It is what it is. Verge said baseball gets more.
Johnson isn’t saying a word about MLB if he wasn’t disappointed in the current state of projects and recruiting as he should. If we were the premier baseball program, our stadium wouldn’t be basically as cheap as Skip built it and we still haven’t done what we could to make the fan experience better.
Then there’s the beating people on player acquisition like it or not.
Johnson is always calculating the gravity of what he is saying and is very intentional about the message to get movement. He is an artist at that skill.

Fact is Tigers are playing guys that were considered backups at 1B, 2B, & 3B plus C defensive issues. Braun at 2B has held up very well.

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Fact is Tigers are playing guys that were considered backups at 1B, 2B, & 3B plus C defensive issues. Braun at 2B has held up very well.

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What do you mean that they were considered backs ups?

Nah Jay texted me weeks ago and told me that he had messed up bad this year. He also said that if he ever considered taking anyone from Grand Canyon in the portal again to make sure to tell Verge to fire him immediately.

Man, give it a rest......name one school that wins the championship every single year....ahh....that is what makes winning the championship special. I have faith that coach will get us back there again very soon.

Let's not forget, LSU was still playing in Omaha when a lot of coaches were hitting the portal hard. Jay was busy coaching his team to a title and not as able to recruit portal guys. Happened in 2023 also, hence the down 2024.

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He also said that if he ever considered taking anyone from Grand Canyon in the portal again to make sure to tell Verge to fire him immediately.

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Wish we coulda got Jacob Wilson a couple years back

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Lil jj

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why? whats the point of talking down to the man. hes obviously better than the other coaches in the sec . what is the point in calling him that? do you think hes not a good coach ? did he offend you in some way? yall are fricking brutal

the players we got in the portal were targeted by other teams as well. even with the guys we have,if they didnt make the stupid mistakes we would be in good shape