Quote Originally Posted by maroonmania View Post
Listened to the end of Rosebowl's podcast today and it sounds like the Oregon State staff just outworked ours at the end to get Arquette back in their boat. Not sure what OSU's final NIL offer was but I assume it was still significantly less than ours. But according to Rosie it was not big deal to lose the top rated portal recruit because he was just a luxury. Sounds like a lot of water toting to me because as Todd stated, we absolutely didn't meet all our needs with what we got out the portal given all that we lost off this year's roster. I see us being a mid-level SEC team next year at best which should hopefully get us back into the post-season but I don't really see us hosting as a Top 16 seed but I would love to be wrong. We really needed a few studs out of the portal given we lost our entire SEC rotation and our best 3 hitters and I don't think we really got that. Arquette would have gone a long way to helping to shore up our lineup. Instead, he goes to a team that doesn't even have a conference home at the moment.
Yeah the Lemon defenders can miss me with the "Arquette was just icing on the cake" talk. A player like that is an entirely different cake with icing already on it. And we let Oregon State just outwork us and take him.

We landed some decent players. But so did everyone else. And we didn't really address our needs. Michael O'Brien is our CF and we still don't have a proven weekend starters.