Jack Walker to the portal

[MetEdDawg]

Meche also gone as well.

Maybe someone knows more than I do but Walker leaving was unexpected to me. Doesn't make a lot of sense honestly

[The Federalist Engineer]

Walker leaving is a statement on Foxhall- This was a big recruit. Louisiana Player of the Year

[Cooterpoot]

Another guy that learned how to not throw strikes here.
Foxhall will be gone after next season if pitching doesn't improve significantly.

[Leeshouldveflanked]

Another guy that learned how to not throw strikes here.
Foxhall will be gone after next season if pitching doesn't improve significantly.

Walker averaged 1 walk per game in High School. At MSU he averaged 1 walk per inning. How do you get that bad that quick?

[Cooterpoot]

Walker averaged 1 walk per game in High School. At MSU he averaged 1 walk per inning. How do you get that bad that quick?

Got Foxhalled

[HoopsDawg]

complete re-tooling guys. several of us stated this was going to happen.

[Hambone]

Am I thinking of the correct player, but wasn’t the scouting report on Walker was that he wasn’t a high velocity pitcher but had serious movement on his pitches?

If so, could it be possible he was dominant in high school due to facing inferior talent and once he got to college he was facing skilled hitters?

If I’m wrong about that player I apologize, I was just wondering if this could be the reason?

[Cooterpoot]

5 or 6 FR out the door. That's poor evals and coaching. That class is pretty much a miss minus a couple guys now.

[Commercecomet24]

complete re-tooling guys. several of us stated this was going to happen.

Yep needed to be done.

[BayouDawg]

Does foxhall get it fixed this year? Hopefully this year was embarrassing to Lemon and it gets a fire lit under his butt.

[MetEdDawg]

complete re-tooling guys. several of us stated this was going to happen.

Sure we expected it. But it's not like Walker didn't come to us with talent. He was one of the more decorated high school pitchers we've brought in over the last decade. And we gave him opportunities to compete.

I don't get us wanting him to go or him wanting to leave after one year.

[raymonddawg]

Plenty of room to improve but Walker did nothing to impress in his time at State.

[Homedawg]

Sure we expected it. But it's not like Walker didn't come to us with talent. He was one of the more decorated high school pitchers we've brought in over the last decade. And we gave him opportunities to compete.

I don't get us wanting him to go or him wanting to leave after one year.

He was a decorated high school pitcher. He wasn't an elite recruit.

[Cowbell]

5 or 6 FR out the door. That's poor evals and coaching. That class is pretty much a miss minus a couple guys now.

Yeah but who is that actually on? Who actually started recruiting last year's class? That class started getting recruited in the eighth grade. I think you gotta share the blame across the last couple of coaching staffs.


The other thing that we need to think about is this is the changing of the guard in terms of how you play ball. With the portal, you can no longer develop players - you don't have time to at a program like ours. So many of these kids when they were being recruited, we had no idea of the portal and the impact it would make. We are essentially changing how we play the game and I'm glad that we are. Every scholarship we use has to be on a guy that can likely start. Otherwise it's most likely a waste.

[Cooterpoot]

He was a decorated high school pitcher. He wasn't an elite recruit.

He was national HS pitcher of the year and an All American. Had multiple P5 and SEC offers.

[Cooterpoot]

Yeah but who is that actually on? Who actually started recruiting last year's class? That class started getting recruited in the eighth grade. I think you gotta share the blame across the last couple of coaching staffs.


The other thing that we need to think about is this is the changing of the guard in terms of how you play ball. With the portal, you can no longer develop players - you don't have time to at a program like ours. So many of these kids when they were being recruited, we had no idea of the portal and the impact it would make. We are essentially changing how we play the game and I'm glad that we are. Every scholarship we use has to be on a guy that can likely start. Otherwise it's most likely a waste.

Our coaches were in no way obligated to sign any kid the other staff offered. Also, they all didn't commit to a previous staff. Walker committed to us late. This idea that all recruiting in a class is over 4 prior to them graduating is silly talk. Offers aren't binding. We aren't having trouble dropping recruits this year. And anyone that believes you don't still have to develop talent is a fool too.

[confucius say]

Walker leaving is a statement on Foxhall- This was a big recruit. Louisiana Player of the Year

Kale Breaux 2.0 unh

[maroonmania]

I am just not seeing anyway Lemonis gets this all put back together by next season. And I know we had injuries but we just have WAY too many pitchers not developing as they should under Foxhall.

[CaptainObvious]

Baseball starting to look like Calipari?s one and done formula. Except in opposite.

They are going to have to fix both the NIL and the Transfer Portal and sooner rather than later.

Some of if not most of the guys leaving were part of the problem this year, not the solution. They weren?t good enough to beat out what we had ahead of them. There are Star freshmen performing at a high level all over the country. We had 1, ONE, UNO!

We will be a fire drill for the next few years using 1 and 2 year players to replace the mistakes.

[Coach34]

What pitcher has Fox brought in that has impressed? Is Pico the only one? Did Pico commit to Fox or a previous coach?

I can coach Sims, Bednar, and the top talent guys. Lots of people can. Coaching is judged on the moderately talented guys and their performance. Right now our staff is failing on that. Hopefully they can portal some already developed talent