re: Who's the 5 baseball players who are gonna get cut?

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The terrible thing about baseball. Every player thinks that need need "personal lessons". I guess LSU's pitching coach last year (current UCF head coach Terry Rooney) knew nothing.

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You have any first-hand knowledge of Rooney's methods/relationship with players? If so then I'll concede that point. I do, was just taught if you don't have anything nice to say, keep ya mouth shut.

As far as the football spin, it has nothing to do with the other situation. The guy Shane saw has MLB ties, spends time in their training facilities at times, and is very well respected for his knowledge and especially ability to work with kids. He's no Joe Blow.

"i hope the ncaa is real happy that they are stopping the sport from growing."

Pure horsecrap. The NCAA is not stopping college baseball from growing.

ill be sad to see anyone go.

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Pontiff brings more than baseball to the team...cant cut him

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+1

If he was going to get cut and it was a mutual thing as stated above and he only has a semester left why would he bother playing in the fall? He WILL be there in the spring! He will get the Sr. day that Wally never got to enjoy!

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the guys who redshirted last year probably wont make the cut. cody rein and one other i think.

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you aren't the first person who said this. I wonder why everyone seems to think this is the case? I don't know much about Martin except that he throws hard. But Reine is a stud. Either way, why would you cut two guys who can contribute for the next 3 or 4 years and keep someone who may not contribute in the one year they have left, like Davis?

And as for Ardoin, I'm surprised he has an arm left after high school. I know how they like to abuse arms at SHVP. It's really a shame because they ruin any chance of success their players may have at the next level.

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what about wes luquette and mikey mahtook?

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Mahtook and Hanover were our top recruits...they will stay. Coach will have to keep the top young guys for the future.

idk about pontiff...he brings leadership character and not a bad bat to the lineup maybe not as a starter but i remember a few clutch pinch hits he had last year late in games

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And as for Ardoin, I'm surprised he has an arm left after high school. I know how they like to abuse arms at SHVP. It's really a shame

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I agree. Actually it starts way before they get to HS...many don't pan out in HS.

I watched a 12 yr. old game this summer and saw hook after hook after hook.

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How does that benefit the program? The only positive is that it would free up another scholarship when the SR graduates, but i dont see the point in cutting a HS All AMerican like Reine was.

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I don't know anything about the situation at all, and I think Reine could be a player here. But if this is true it could also be a mutual thing. If it looks like he may only be a platoon player here he would be better off going to juco next semester (because of the new transfer rules).

Pontiff won't get cut.