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He is just looking for clicks, for traffic. He does not even matter in the process. He does the same with Dabo. the more reactions he gets the more he thinks he stay relevant. When he is on talk shows with others you can see them just laughing at him because they know it is just click bait.

I coached High School Baseball and Football for 30 years, Recently retired. I have had many kids sign with colleges in both sports. There has been some good advice here by others. When I had athletes and parents contact me about college I always started with the same sentence. You want to go to a place that you have the best chance of getting on the field, Period. Big colleges bring in top recruits every year, just being able to sign at a big college does not do anything for your playing time. The competition is hard and it gets harder every year. Does not mean you can not do it just something to think about. The transfer portal is a little deceiving, Only a small % of the players who go into the transfer portal improve the situation they were in, in fact many go into the transfer portal and never play ball again.

My second part is this. My son is a baseball guy, he is a senior this year. We went after some bigger schools since he was a Jr, not a lot of movement. He finally got a 55% offer from a NAIA school. This was several weeks ago. He has now been contacted by multiple schools about having a face to face with them. Been crazy, He has even been contacted by some D1 schools, nothing major but still. Every college sends out letters to athletes but when a coach calls or sends a text asking for you to come to a face to face, you are cooking with grease. So as others have said fight hard for that offer even if it is a Podunk University. It may lead to something bigger. To be honest I like the NAIA offer he got. Great environment, great academics, no too far from home. But it is his choice. Good Luck..

So let me get this right, People actually think that Nate is not teaching pitchers to throw over the plate and hit their spots. Jay Johnson puts us in a shift and our pitchers can not pitch against the shift. We do not hit spots. The problem we have is that we do not have any bulldogs on the mound this year. Even Guidry is not at his normal shove it up your A&& self.

We just missed on a solid pitching staff this year. They looked good on paper but have failed to perform. It happens.

Nate Yeskie is one of the top pitching coaches in the country. I am not for or against him as a coach. I just know he is a national level pitching coach.

I am amazed that so many people try to question his ability as our pitching coach.

At some point this lack of production falls on the athlete to perform on the mound when they are called upon. We have kids coming out of the bullpen throwing 4 straight balls. This is on the athlete.

I do question pitch calls sometimes. But when a kid can only throw a strike with a curve and misses with a fastball, what are you going to call.

All we can do as a peanut gallery is support the process. The process does not work the same every year for every player. The NIL/transfer thing has hurt us and Jay has admitted he did not make the correct choices. I trust him to fix the issues. We as fans should trust his process.

But a lot of Alumni love how it went down. Always 50/50......

All the shifting is killing the DP chances. In my opinion. I think we are overthinking it.

Just seems like something different going on with the team. I hope they can bounce back and get all phases of the game going in the right direction.

Good I did not see him. Was driving home from camp. Thanks

Kent state is a pretty good team. Vols will be ok.

That is great I live about 30 miles form Erskine college. Nice little school. When I was a head baseball coach hear in SC I sent several players to Erskine. They loved it. Congrats

That kid wants a ton of money, Not sure we are going to meet his numbers or get into the money war with other teams.

Naturally I think most people long for the old ways. Kids played for the Name on the front not the name on the back. Sadly I think those days are gone.

I was really rooting for Clemson to keep it as close to the old ways, but they failed.Dabo just does not know they failed, yet.

There is a since of excitement every year about college football. This next year will not be any different. But in general I miss the old ways. I would much rather see the local kids playing for the local college that they dreamed about playing for their entire life. It just seemed to mean more.

The one thing that I think is truly funny is the amount of fans that claim to be done with it. They will be back. they will be following, talking trash, and following every pod cast.

I think two things can be true, we miss the good old days, but excited about the future.