Baseball recruiting insiders, are we in the running for any transfers? I see we got the one d2 pitcher but are we in on any other guys or is the staff super tight-lipped on things?
Baseball Recruiting Gurus: Any portal moves coming soon?
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Was listening to Justin Parker's interview on Hailstate and he commented that he had heard nothing negative about Coach Lemon and the program. I guess that means he's not a Pack member, right? Otherwise, he comes across as a committed intense coach that seems to know what he's doing. Looking forward to seeing what he can do for us.
Justin needs to get signed up for the Sixpack. There is an infinite amount of baseball knowledge shared here that could be very beneficial to him.
We are keeping any commits quiet so no one else will recruit them or offer more NIL money.
Yes there is an actual human that is suggesting that
Supposedly there are commits that they want to keep private for now, possibly until after the draft.
Or he could just talk to Slate Alford's dad or travel ball coach. **
Gloom despair and agony on me. Deep dark depression excessive misery. If it weren’t for bad luck we would have no luck at all. Gloom despair and agony on me.
Kind of like in football all those years where kept our spring and non-conference offenses vanilla so we didn't tip off the SEC teams about how prolific we were going to be...
What is the logic behind that? If they are good, then teams would be after them regardless. Are we thinking that other teams would try to poach players just because they want to come to State?
Is it just me or does STATE seem to yield the worst fruit from great crootin' compaed to the others?
I heard Coach Lemon is taking the "sit on your bucket and wait" approach.
Historically, I feel like it’s been the polar opposite. No data behind this, but it just seems like we’ve typically done a solid job of hitting on the highly rated prospects and then developing a lot of the others to be able to contribute by years 2 and 3.
Lately, though, we definitely haven’t gotten our money’s worth(both literally and figuratively) which points to really, really poor talent evaluation and development
I believe the Portal-John is on fire.
I was actually looking over our current roster coming back for next year (not considering signees) and while we have some really good top end guys like Hunter Hines, Dakota Jordan, Ross Highfill and hopefully David Mershon. There is a HUGE gap between those guys and most of the rest of what's left on the roster. And pitching wise I'm not sure we have a top end guy. We have a few on the roster that have a lot of potential but no proven studs. No doubt our evaluation and development of the last few recruiting classes has been very, very poor.
I would give our portal activity the following grade (that I made up for just this occasion):
Mississippi State Portal Class Grade: "Mediocre Big Ten."
The one beside the dumpster fire that represents our past 2 seasons I presume?
Robbie Faulk alluded to Lemonis having a few guys coming in from the portal but that they were keeping it quiet for now. Which is better than nothing... I guess? I hope those guys aren't holding out because they expect L$U to bring a couple money bags their way.
How many guys worth having are going to commit without fanfare? That just seems really odd. I mean Lane even got a graphic.
I wouldn't call a graphic fanfare. That's doing the absolute bare minimum. I expect a graphic anytime we get a transfer or a signee tbh.
Yeah, I don’t know what’s behind this hidden recruit strategy, but I do feel pretty safe in saying that there is no top coach out there that has been watching Lemonis over the last 2 years and thought to himself… man, I need to do what that guy’s doing
I'm sure potential recruits/transfers who read our MBs (and they all do) are just jumping at the chance!
Ok. Whatever you want to call it. But point being anyone worth having is going to announce something. We even got a tweet from the D3 guy.
