Adkerson is pretty big. The Bryans. Mossy Oak is pretty involved in baseball. Steven Warren. No former players really outside of Maholm, Raffy, and Craig Tatum
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If you can get Heefner, and that's a big IF, you do it. Absolute no brainer.
What on earth makes any of you guys think ANY of these guys would consider MSU ....three on your list turned us down last time ..and the Schlossnagle interview didn't last 20 minutes .....throw in that MSU has the fewest NIL opportunities ...and it isn't the destination that a high profile coach will want to take a chance on.... .
An interview from 5-years ago, when Arkansas hired Nate Thompson. Replaced Vitello in pig world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhYuS4Whfvg&t=11s
After Thompson speaks, you have Van Horn talking recruiting. Pretty interesting.
Thompson is a Dallas Baptist graduate. Arkansas has been to 3 CWS' and basically been a 45+ wins/season team. Still winning today, as Thompson's 8th and 9th grade commitments are rolling in.
I'm not saying butch wouldn't come. But he's a loyal guy. They gave his first shot. We've won a title already. Had we not that would matter cause he could bring us our first. But I'm not sure he's take it. Is it a better job? Yea. But I'm not sure he'd take it. Lane. Hell yeah he would. No doubt
Just heard van horn speak and he said they were going to stop taking so many hs commits and go way more portal. We shall see. Better have a deep nil pocket. And they probably do. But you can't get away from signees. They have more loyalty if they really wanted to be there to begin with. And clearly they can get em
I tend to agree. The portal is definitely a gamble. You can get real good real quick or you could blow your whole program up. Also, with nil what it is, if you buy portal guys and it costs you big bucks, those people putting up those big bucks will expect results NOW.
Tyson, JB Hunt, Walmart, Jerry. I mean Arkansas can warchest an NIL fund that could rival Texas with just 4 families. They have plenty right now, but if they go all in everyone needs to be very afraid. They could be the Yankees if they wanted to. Thankfully, the care equally about all their sports so no sport will ever totally dominate with NIL.
Bought or not, LSU fans expect to win and get results every year
Hell they ran off Laval after 5 years and he was 210-109-1 (88-60-1)
That?s a .658 Win Percentage overall and .594 in SEC play
Lemonis is .672 overall and .527
Laval only had one SEC season with under 18 wins in conference and it cost him his job (13)
His sin? Not winning the CWS and not Skip
2 CWS Appearances
1 super
1 regional
Smoke's biggest issue was his name wasn't Skip Bertman. It's almost impossible to follow a legend. I think both McMahon and Cohen did it so well for us because Polk had not won a national championship. Had Polk reeled off the two we should've won (85 and 89) then I think the expectations would've been raised for both those men. I also don't think Polk comes back in 02 if he had won a national championship.
Most of the Arkansas NIL is going toward basketball right now, mainly because the JB Hunt family are huge basketball fans and are putting money toward it. They're the only big player publicly out there supporting NIL though.
If you look at the roster this year, so far Arkansas' two best hitters are both transfers - Bohrofen from OU and Wegner from Creighton. the 3rd is probably Josenberger who is a Kansas transfer.
Peyton Stovall was a blue chip recruit who most thought was a can't-miss first round pick and possibly the best hitter in the entire draft, and while he's been good he's maybe the 4th best hitter on the team. I can see why DVH would prefer to go with proven transfers. Even the best high school recruits are sometimes a roll of the dice.