2025 NCAA Baseball Transfer Portal

[BigDawg81]

Arquette to Oregon State
I think that?s a wrap guys. As usual, the Baseball Portal thread never disappoints. I appreciate everyone?s input and keeping up with the portal. Until the baseball portal opens up next year, let?s enjoy some football.

[The Federalist Engineer]

Looking like Oregon State is going to get him.

We whiff on a top portal guy yet again. Some staff's can close. Some can't.

Oregon State's NIL is probably a corrugated box of old, moldy beaver swag in XL, XXL, and YS sizes.

I guess Arquette is going to sell the stuff on Ebay to make $250

[State82]

Mershon signs
0 for 2 today

I was a little surprised that they assigned him to AA right out of the gate.

[maroonmania]

Arquette to Oregon State
I think that?s a wrap guys. As usual, the Baseball Portal thread never disappoints. I appreciate everyone?s input and keeping up with the portal. Until the baseball portal opens up next year, let?s enjoy some football.

And just like last year we will likely have plenty of left over NIL money for baseball. We should have a war chest for next year's portal class.***

[KOdawg1]

I was a little surprised that they assigned him to AA right out of the gate.

The Angels do that with college players.

[bulldogcountry1]

And just like last year we will likely have plenty of left over NIL money for baseball. We should have a war chest for next year's portal class.***

?We can?t compete with the big boy?s NIL?

[Leeshouldveflanked]

NIL is not the problem with MSU baseball. I have a buddy whose son is a top 10 recruit in Mississippi. They hear from Vandy and Duke more than they do MSU. His EBC team just won the Perfect Game World Series and the whole team was invited to Vanderbilt as the champion.
They were impressed with the MSU visit as far as facilities and campus, but not so much anything else. His family has plenty of $$$. He still may go to MSU just because it is hour and half away from home and Oxford is too close.

[basedog]

NIL is not the problem with MSU baseball. I have a buddy whose son is a top 10 recruit in Mississippi. They hear from Vandy and Duke more than they do MSU. His EBC team just won the Perfect Game World Series and the whole team was invited to Vanderbilt as the champion.
They were impressed with the MSU visit as far as facilities and campus, but not so much anything else. His family has plenty of $$$. He still may go to MSU just because it is hour and half away from home and Oxford is too close.

I can understand. Laziness exists.

[Pancho]

NIL is not the problem with MSU baseball. I have a buddy whose son is a top 10 recruit in Mississippi. They hear from Vandy and Duke more than they do MSU. His EBC team just won the Perfect Game World Series and the whole team was invited to Vanderbilt as the champion.
They were impressed with the MSU visit as far as facilities and campus, but not so much anything else. His family has plenty of $$$. He still may go to MSU just because it is hour and half away from home and Oxford is too close.

aren't his folks big shark fans? Did Lemo not offer this kid already, like when he was 14 yrs old? If you are referring to the player I think you are, he can't play at MSU.

[StarkVegasSteve]

NIL is not the problem with MSU baseball. I have a buddy whose son is a top 10 recruit in Mississippi. They hear from Vandy and Duke more than they do MSU. His EBC team just won the Perfect Game World Series and the whole team was invited to Vanderbilt as the champion.
They were impressed with the MSU visit as far as facilities and campus, but not so much anything else. His family has plenty of $$$. He still may go to MSU just because it is hour and half away from home and Oxford is too close.

Everyone is missing one big thing that matters. Guys I know we love Starkville, hell a lot of us love it so much we have a second residence there, but to outsiders Starkville is a boring ass town. It has 3 bars that you can fit more than 12 people in, there's no alternate forms of entertainment, and unless you want Mexican your food options are limited. Now Oxford is the same thing, albeit with more bars and more space, but because they have marketed it as somewhere people want to be for 50 years then folks just believe that. They believe that even though they may not see it, it's there. Starkville has none of that perception so recruits take it at face value.

[SPMT]

Everyone is missing one big thing that matters. Guys I know we love Starkville, hell a lot of us love it so much we have a second residence there, but to outsiders Starkville is a boring ass town. It has 3 bars that you can fit more than 12 people in, there's no alternate forms of entertainment, and unless you want Mexican your food options are limited. Now Oxford is the same thing, albeit with more bars and more space, but because they have marketed it as somewhere people want to be for 50 years then folks just believe that. They believe that even though they may not see it, it's there. Starkville has none of that perception so recruits take it at face value.

True. Most like it once they come

[StarkVegasSteve]

True. Most like it once they come

And therein lies the problem....these recruiting visits are taken at face value. They don't spend any time here and they are coming in the dead of summer where the town population is cut in half. It's all about perception though. If we started marketing Starkville better, then we may start winning some of these battles.

[bulldogcountry1]

Everyone is missing one big thing that matters. Guys I know we love Starkville, hell a lot of us love it so much we have a second residence there, but to outsiders Starkville is a boring ass town. It has 3 bars that you can fit more than 12 people in, there's no alternate forms of entertainment, and unless you want Mexican your food options are limited. Now Oxford is the same thing, albeit with more bars and more space, but because they have marketed it as somewhere people want to be for 50 years then folks just believe that. They believe that even though they may not see it, it's there. Starkville has none of that perception so recruits take it at face value.

I just don't buy the fact that the town of Starkvile is playing a major role in this. Yeah, it's dead in the summer, but I think it has more to do with the staff failing to sell the program and Starkville.

[SPMT]

I just don't buy the fact that the town of Starkvile is playing a major role in this. Yeah, it's dead in the summer, but I think it has more to do with the staff failing to sell the program and Starkville.

Truth to this as well

[Coach34]

Looking like Oregon State is going to get him.

We whiff on a top portal guy yet again. Some staff's can close. Some can't.

But we closed on what- 9 other portal guys? So why can we close on a All-Big12 Freshman but not on another "known" guy?

I'm not defending nor downing Lemon- just not understanding why we miss on the bigger targets but pull others easily. Doesnt make alot of sense

And StarkVegas 100% affects today's recruiting. If you think our stadium affects recruiting but StarkVegas doesnt- then you are not a serious or very smart individual. All of it is a factor on some level

[basedog]

But we closed on what- 9 other portal guys? So why can we close on a All-Big12 Freshman but not on another "known" guy?

I'm not defending nor downing Lemon- just not understanding why we miss on the bigger targets but pull others easily. Doesnt make alot of sense

And StarkVegas 100% affects today's recruiting. If you think our stadium affects recruiting but StarkVegas doesnt- then you are not a serious or very smart individual. All of it is a factor on some level

I think players commit more to who will be coaching them than say the city or town. Also facilities play a big part but now days everyone except a few in SEC have nice facilities (baseball).
Lemonis is a nice guy, but he is nowhere near the top recruiters in the Sec in baseball, maybe middle of the pack at best. JMO

[maroonmania]

I think players commit more to who will be coaching them than say the city or town. Also facilities play a big part but now days everyone except a few in SEC have nice facilities (baseball).
Lemonis is a nice guy, but he is nowhere near the top recruiters in the Sec in baseball, maybe middle of the pack at best. JMO

And the strange part is Lemonis was sold to us when he came as a top notch recruiter that was key in building Louisville under McDonnell. At this point I won't ever expect us to win a big time portal battle ever again. And I just don't buy the Starkville argument. I'm sure that affects some small percentage of players but it doesn't seem to bother our HS recruiting where we still do pretty well. Starkville is way better now than it's been through most of MSUs history. Aside from the financial piece, I would think for a portal guy the bigger factors would be opportunity of playing time, development for MLB and game environment moreso than how many bars are in town. Heck, most will only be around for one year maybe two. I doubt we lost a guy to Corvallis, Oregon based on the party scene but whatever. Heck, Oregon State doesn't even have a conference to play in at the moment.

[Coach34]

I think players commit more to who will be coaching them than say the city or town. Also facilities play a big part but now days everyone except a few in SEC have nice facilities (baseball).
Lemonis is a nice guy, but he is nowhere near the top recruiters in the Sec in baseball, maybe middle of the pack at best. JMO

Lemon certainly has to be a part of that. As does StarkVegas and its location in Nowhere Mississippi. As does facilities. As does the campus.

It doesnt make sense that we have lost every "known" player battle but won others. The guy from Houston chose us over LSU and some others. So we dont lose every battle but it makes you wonder why we lose the ones we do.

[basedog]

Lemon certainly has to be a part of that. As does StarkVegas and its location in Nowhere Mississippi. As does facilities. As does the campus.

It doesnt make sense that we have lost every "known" player battle but won others. The guy from Houston chose us over LSU and some others. So we dont lose every battle but it makes you wonder why we lose the ones we do.

I think we have to work harder with recruiting the so called “stars”. I think we do ok but folks like Vitello are just driven and I think he is more involved. Lemonis is a nice guy, and does ok at recruiting but I don’t think he is a great but a decent to good recruiter. Just gotta get players that can be leaders and are motivated. I think after the Natty we lacked motivation and had clubhouse issues. This hurts your recruiting.

[No BS Dawg]

It appears our coaches have one of the same problems the team did this year, the inability to close. Especially against the better teams and with the higher profile prospects.