re: Why is Coach JJ not utilizing Dathe or Benge

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i'm still shocked that he did it.

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He had so many fricking drafted the last couple years AND THERE ARE ROSTER LIMITS NOW. frick people do the fricking math. He had OUTFIELDERS leave that were never going to start over Brown, Stanfield (who led the team in hitting last season in the SEC) and Curiel a first round pick.
Cooper Moore’s injury is the difference between being in and being out. If he pitches and wins 4-5 games people wouldn’t be wringing their fricking hands.
If anything pitchers like Noot, Williams, Guidry and Rizzy are pure shite this season. They HAVE BEEN IN THE PROGRAM WITH A GREAT PITCHING COACH.

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but it just seems so obvious that building a team out of mercenaries you don't know is a worse way to build a team than leveraging LSU baseball to recruit the most talented kids to be developed by the best coaches in LSU baseball.

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But it's not 2008 anymore. You don't have time to "develop" any of these kids. Like UT, Arkansas, UGA, A&M, State, and Tennessee are not pinning their hopes on development.

Of course they gave guys in their program (less so UGA) that have been there for more than a year, but those are almost always guys that hit in year 1.

If your freshman are not day 1 ready, you have to have perfectly timed transfers, and even that doesn't work out sometimes. For example, you bring in Dickinson last year because Ryan isn't ready. In a perfect world, Ryan waits to take over the 2B/3B job this year. Instead, he bolts because an ACC school is going to pay him a little more to play SS.

If anything, the freshman who come here are using LSU as mercenary/leverage plays. Who do you think NC State wants to pay? A guy coming from say UNO who has put togethet 2 semi productive years, or the guy who spent a year developing at LSU?

Luckily, it seems we have 3 sure fire hits in this freshman class in Ruckert/Braun/Serna. Patrick has shown promise. The arms have shown potential. Unless you get very lucky in the draft like UCLA a couple years ago, you're just not going to have a team full of home grown guys (and even they have big time portal contributors).

Also, Jay did use LSU to recruit the most talented high schoolers. We just happened to have the worst draft outcome in his time here in the 2025 draft.

Also also, the current itteration of this team is nearly entire home grown.

1. Braun
2. Serna
3. Curiel
4. Bide
5. Milam
6. Pearson
7. Ruckert
8. Patrick
9. Reaves

P. Schmidt
P. Sheerin
P. Guidry

The only guy who started yesterday that didn't start his career here, is a JUCO transfer. The only other guy that played that didn't start his career here is Sheerin, a multi year transfer.

You have to adapt. Jay has done a great job at that. It just so happens that this past season conflicted with the portal on an insane level, it was a generally weak portal class nationwide (outside of the UVA guys, but I don't count them as normal transfers), we had the second worst injury luck in Jay's time here, and we got smoked by the amateur draft.

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He plays the highest paid guy’s first. I

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Not in games that matter.

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It’s all economic and analytics w lil man

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And all it's resulted in is two titles :/