Quote Originally Posted by Cooterpoot View Post
Hire a new HC. But I'm in the Mad Dog Margaritas tonight. My head will hurt tomorrow, but I won't strike out a 1/4 of what Lemonis does.
Think about this:
1st time HC Lebby is killing recruiting at a low end football school
Jans is killing recruiting at a bad basketball school
Lemonis is sucking at a baseball power house
Anyone that doesn't believe he's 75% the problem is lost, blind, and foolish.
It took yall a long time to accept Foxy was a disaster when I was telling yall he was. But it became obvious eventually and this will too
We're not having an issue recruiting high school players. I'm not sure why the portal would be much different.

We haven't had a problem attracting position players this cycle. But we haven't landed a pitcher only guy yet. Which I think is a bit unusual.

At the same time the portal season isn't over for another six weeks or so. It's still way early to panic. We need to get through the draft next and that's an unknown at this point. No one really knows what kind of discussions Lemonis has had with the players and scouts regarding the draft and I am 100% certain he has a much better idea than anyone here has about what is exactly coming back. Like we're all assuming Holcombe is gone. But he is playing summer ball right now which is a little odd for someone that is going pro. At the same time we're all assuming Pico is staying even though he is draft eligible. It sounds like Stone Simmons is coming back. If he is healthy he could start for us or he could close.

Then you have a guy like Brooks Auger. He may not be drafted in the top 10 rounds. Maybe he gets drafted in the 12th round or something and then we offer him NIL and get him back for another year. I don't think anyone would be against that and in that case I would much rather have a guy like Auger over most of the guys in the portal. I don't think he is going to get a massively huge bonus that we couldn't potentially match with NIL.

I'm sure we'll get some guys out of the portal but if our rotation next spring in Simmons, Pico, and Nolan Stevens for example I could live with that on paper.

Oh- and this is coming from a guy that said Foxhall was the main problem since Tulane 2022.