No surprise here. But impressive portal haul for UT.
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No surprise here. But impressive portal haul for UT.
Tenn flat out raping Mississippi
Curious to see who they hire next June
but doesn't bianca have the 7th best portal class in the nation and 5th in the sec behind ark, lsu, UT and a&m?
The rankings are based a ton on numbers, and uga has a huge class. A lot of them w bad numbers at their previous spots
You can?t blame kids?Vitello matches the kids enthusiasm and is clearly a good coach.
If any of us were 19 and he showed interest, we?d go there immediately.
Someone will so no, or that they don?t like his antics. They probably didn?t like Cohen?s antics either?
Great recruiter
Can outspend everyone
Great college town
Great facilities
Wonder why he is doing so well?
The only thing that might help the little guys now is limiting roster sizes.
Removing the "1 time instant transfer" rule would help smaller programs in all sports. Then they'd only have to worry about grad transfers leaving for NIL deals. I could also see some kind of contract situation where players get NIL but have a "buyout" if they want to leave early. That means other schools not only have to offer a better NIL to the player, but want that player enough to pay the buyout which the other school can use to Portal in a replacement
confucius nails it again....... excellent post
I agree that he forced them to step up. But nothing I said was incorrect- all the points are true. Also- Tenn hired him a year before we hired Lemon. We had our own version of Vitello then before he self-imploded.
And I'll remind you- They have the same number of Nattys
So much truth here. Cann was Vitello. They were a carbon copy of each other. We had our Vitello and the College Baseball world knew it. There was legitimate fear within college baseball when we hired Cann because everyone knew he was an ace recruiter and a motivator like none other. Cann keeping his head in the game and out of his phone may be the biggest what if in MSU baseball history. Right up there with Gene Morgan in 85.
I have been very critical of Lemonis, especially regarding his player development. However, C34 made a good point here. Theres no question that Lemon is a "players coach," and the guys seem to enjoy playing for him. The value of that can't be overstated in the current NIL/Transfer climate.
The points are true because they hired TV. Without him, none of that exists.
He would have walked to Starkville for our job in 2018 when we hired Lemonis.
Now that said, I'm not anti Lemonis like many. He can still be very good to great here. But he's not dynamic like a TV.
I'm willing to bet they will bounce back a little better than we did though lol. The trajectories of each program post 1st baseball natty couldn't be more opposite but you play dumb to help your stance.
If you were running the program you'd just ride the '21 season into the sunset and be ok with that and tell fans that's all we deserve and to lower expectations.
Injuries killed 22. You’re just being a hardheaded ass if you can’t acknowledge that
23 we were a young team. Certainly blame Lemon for not getting a couple more portals to fill out the team. Because he didn’t- his job was on the line this season.
24- he responded and got us back on track. Parker did a good job but the guys being a year older was also a big deal.
25- better respond again
How good was our haul in the year following our NC? LOL