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How dumb are you to be this caught "cheating" in NIL era

Always gets hot around this time. Don't forget he was a big reason we won several games in CWS especially game 1 against CC.

What's his natural position catcher? If he is, does he have a good glove? I don't see them snagging a C without them having a really good glove or either Bide/Serna leave unexpectedly.

I'm sure he was in a lot of pain in order to miss his start like that. It's a pretty common problem I saw that was complaining about stiffness in his back. Hopefully it's not something worse with the way Jay reports on these things.

That said, separate to this issue, Schmidt needs to grow mental fortitude. He has no composure on the mound. In order for LSU to be as bad as they are this year you have to look at the entire team. Guys like Ruckert and Schmidt collapsing in big situations is partly why we're at where we are.

He falls to pieces at the first sign of adversity on the mound. This is where he needs to improve going into next season. Guy has great stuff just trust yourself. I'm hoping he makes as big of a leap as he did this year development wise and he does, we have our Friday guy. That said, I'd be more comfortable if LSU got at least 1 stud starter in the portal.

Evans was hit or miss this year, Schmidt had big progression but definitely had lots of spots where mental barriers hurt him, and we don't know what Moore is going to do coming back off injury. You absolutely have to take at least 1 stud starter in portal in my opinion.

Personally not convinced on him. I'm hoping LSU gets a good one in the portal just in case. Not saying Ruckert won't develop but this wasn't a single thing. It was an all year thing. He collapsed several times in big moments and cost us games. Going into next year in hopes he develops into what we think he will is partly why we experienced our problems this year with guys like Bide behind the plate.

Neither is paying players millions to be professionals when they're clearly not. LSU didn't create this problem they're just navigating it and treating it like they should be. Don't hate them because they're smarter than everyone else and doing what a business should to survive the new era.

Why would he want to go play for Sark who's on his way out at Texas anyway? At USC every player on that former team will tell you when Sark/Kiffin were on staff when asked who was the offensive mind to their offense - every player said Kiffin. The only thing Sark did was communicate Kiffin's blueprint to the players.

Main point is Sark is known as a good offensive mind but when put together even Kiffin dwarfed his ability.

Maybe they don't think he's as good as his rating or whatever asking price he's looking for? Maybe they're satisfied with what they got. Maybe it's a combination of many things.

Michigan and Texas you can make that argument for but not sure about Bama. Money wise right now LSU has deeper pocket boosters than them. They do have strong alumni support and the other things you mentioned.

I personally think Bama is not convinced on supporting their HC similar to LSU with BK. You see LSU dumping money because there was lots of big money boosters not backing BK.

I think Bama would be fine if they collectively get a HC their boosters support similar to LSU did with Lane. Texas Tech is a power player now as well with their money support they just need to be in a better power conference. Right now it's easy automatic bids for them to hit playoffs though.

This board isn't going to want to hear it but Big 10 has a lot of power players now that weren't in the past. Even Indiana has billionaires behind them now.

Pretty sure that number is heavily inflated by him having awful defenses. I remember I think it was DarDar that missed a routine grounder in one inning that ended up a meltdown so it screwed his era up. They were going to get out of that inning with no runs if you had any kind of defense. Moore wasn't bad but definitely don't know how he would do in the meat of the SEC schedule. He commanded his pitches at least.