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    Quote Originally Posted by Randolph Dupree View Post
    Right now, from the outside looking in, we appear to be failing at an epic level with the transfer portal. Only silver lining I can possibly see at this point is that we are banking NIL to spend when the next staff takes over next June. I hope I eat crow later, and I will gladly take seconds with that meal but it appears that we have totaled the Ferrari and insurance isn't going to cover it.

    Let’s think about this…..what do we have, that fans have seen, to be excited about. I’d love to be proven wrong. We look like a train wreck though.

    Prove us wrong. Show us. We are all in, just show us that you can get it done Coach.

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    Easy now. Nothing is ever as good or as bad as reported. We've got position players coming. Pitchers? Ehhh.
    Everyone wants to be a beast...until its time to do what beasts do.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Leroy Jenkins View Post
    Easy now. Nothing is ever as good or as bad as reported. We've got position players coming. Pitchers? Ehhh.
    The discouraging part about it is the best players going into next year regardless of position were also on this years team that failed miserably. We will not be increasing in talent other than a couple of freshman that have zero college experience. On paper, they don't show to be any better. That means some players are gonna have to make a big jump with experience and so all our hope lies with coaching 😂

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    Question: If you were a top portal guy would you go to a program that's been abysmal the last two seasons and has a coach that's going to lose his job if this season is bad? We can pay but that's only going to get you so far. The Lemon is getting squeezed right now. His hopes basically ride on two portal dreams and young guys killing it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cooterpoot View Post
    Question: If you were a top portal guy would you go to a program that's been abysmal the last two seasons and has a coach that's going to lose his job if this season is bad? We can pay but that's only going to get you so far. The Lemon is getting squeezed right now. His hopes basically ride on two portal dreams and young guys killing it.
    You have to put some more context with it. I mean we are two years away from winning it all, we do have NIL, we do have the best stadium and largest crowds. Our football staff is doing more with a much more average program.

    What do you mean by two portal dreams??

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cowbell View Post
    You have to put some more context with it. I mean we are two years away from winning it all, we do have NIL, we do have the best stadium and largest crowds. Our football staff is doing more with a much more average program.

    What do you mean by two portal dreams??
    Players don't care about attendance and what happened 3 years ago from their next season. They're looking to win big and maximizing the pro draft. We aren't doing a ton of either. How many people think we've got a bunch of secret commits? I don't. I think we're in it for a couple guys but that's about it. If we don't pull Montgomery and Holman, Lemons is dead. There's nothing big in the portal right now. Less than two weeks left.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Leroy Jenkins View Post
    Easy now. Nothing is ever as good or as bad as reported. We've got position players coming. Pitchers? Ehhh.
    I actually have some confidence that we will look a lot better on the mound this year even with the same personnel. I've said it on here before but I think Fox just mailed it in. Don't know why but I'm not sure our guys were getting any good development. My issue with the transfer portal is, every team that is in it to win it is going out and upgrading as many positions as they can. So while we do have some very nice pieces returning and a nice recruiting class coming, that's not enough to get ahead in the transfer portal environment.

    Again I hope like hell to be eating crow next June but at the moment this doesn't look good.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cooterpoot View Post
    Players don't care about attendance and what happened 3 years ago from their next season. They're looking to win big and maximizing the pro draft. We aren't doing a ton of either. How many people think we've got a bunch of secret commits? I don't. I think we're in it for a couple guys but that's about it. If we don't pull Montgomery and Holman, Lemons is dead. There's nothing big in the portal right now. Less than two weeks left.
    This👆 Players know they are going to play in front of hundreds in the Minors. Playing in front of 2500 in a winning team in college is more valuable than playing in front of 10,000 on a losing team.

    Keenum and Selmon have signed us up for a 3 year rebuild after Lemonis winning a NC with someone else?s recruits.

    You don?t keep commitments secret when your fan base is starving for good news. That is like missing a Regional 2 straight years and telling your fans they can kick rocks and hit the road if they don?t like it.

    Bringing in a new head coach would have given the fan base a reason for excitement but instead they kept the loser and he can?t even give the fans a Millicent of four news! Pitiful really. He is sticking it to us worse than Moorhead?s kick rocks statement!

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    Quote Originally Posted by CaptainObvious View Post
    You don?t keep commitments secret when your fan base is starving for good news. That is like missing a Regional 2 straight years and telling your fans they can kick rocks and hit the road if they don?t like it!
    Lemon is focused on building a team for next year. He dont care if you are over there whining because you havent heard anything yet. All the chairback tickets are sold for next season. All the tailgating areas are sold for next year.

    We'll hear about transfers when the transfers are ready to announce
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    This will move the needle or probably not.
    Mississippi State has picked up JUCO RHP Gavin Black from NW Florida State
    Pitched 36 innings, 43 K?s and 24 BB with an ERA of 4.00

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    Quote Originally Posted by BigDawg81 View Post
    This will move the needle or probably not.
    Mississippi State has picked up JUCO RHP Gavin Black from NW Florida State
    Pitched 36 innings, 43 K?s and 24 BB with an ERA of 4.00
    Just saw this on twitter. Juco transfer, i guess. Throws pretty hard.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BigDawg81 View Post
    This will move the needle or probably not.
    Mississippi State has picked up JUCO RHP Gavin Black from NW Florida State
    Pitched 36 innings, 43 K?s and 24 BB with an ERA of 4.00
    Big arm. Watch his film and think of Colby White. Need to hope the draft doesn't hurt us with him.

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    97 in Juco is a good grab. Top shelf Juco too. Same Juco as DeLucia I believe.
    Last edited by Cooterpoot; 07-02-2023 at 09:58 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Coach34 View Post
    Lemon is focused on building a team for next year. He dont care if you are over there whining because you havent heard anything yet. All the chairback tickets are sold for next season. All the tailgating areas are sold for next year.

    We'll hear about transfers when the transfers are ready to announce
    Seems to be the same philosophy all the other Top programs are taking too. Not making any portal commitments known to their fans. Not building confidence that they are keeping their program at the top. Oh wait! That is NOT what the other programs are doing. They are cherry picking the best available. While our coach is keeping secrets about his fantastic efforts to bring State from 13th to 12th next year. But hey, that will get the Dogs in Hoover. Carry on with your acceptance of the Status Quo.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cooterpoot View Post
    Question: If you were a top portal guy would you go to a program that's been abysmal the last two seasons and has a coach that's going to lose his job if this season is bad? We can pay but that's only going to get you so far. The Lemon is getting squeezed right now. His hopes basically ride on two portal dreams and young guys killing it.
    A lot of these portal guys are coming for one season so I'm not sure why Lemonis's long term future matters that much to most of them. If we get Montgomery and Holman they're going in the draft next year regardless of what happens to MSU next year.

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    Lemo and everyone associated with MSU baseball knows the rest of this month is critical. There really isn't much else that can be said. We all know the areas that we need immediate help. The Dude is sold out regardless

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    Quote Originally Posted by Todd4State View Post
    A lot of these portal guys are coming for one season so I'm not sure why Lemonis's long term future matters that much to most of them. If we get Montgomery and Holman they're going in the draft next year regardless of what happens to MSU next year.
    Kendall Rogers seems to think Holman is going to Florida

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    Quote Originally Posted by Todd4State View Post
    A lot of these portal guys are coming for one season so I'm not sure why Lemonis's long term future matters that much to most of them. If we get Montgomery and Holman they're going in the draft next year regardless of what happens to MSU next year.
    The Tommy Whites of the world care. And that's what we need. Getting a couple younger guys that can give you a couple years to stabilize things some til your HS recruits are ready would be nice. But Lemons has to save his job. We've gotten a Juco pitcher so far. Get Holman and Montgomery and things are good next year. But looking to the future, it looks pretty rough without some guys showing up. We've already seen a some decommits and some guys pushed out of the class. You can't completely get away from HS talent and rely on the portal every season. That's why we're here now. All the bad HS recruits we signed and gave the boot and not developing kids.

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    Hypothetically, you can't announce a commit that hasn't entered the portal yet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pancho View Post
    Lemo and everyone associated with MSU baseball knows the rest of this month is critical. There really isn't much else that can be said. We all know the areas that we need immediate help. The Dude is sold out regardless
    It really doesn't what is or isn't publicly announced right now or if fans are happy or not right now. Only thing that really matters in the end for Lemonis is are the fans happy or not at the end of next season. We all know he's got one last season to get this program back into the postseason or he is packing his bags.

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