re: A&M vs LSU this week in baseball, just a reminder that LSU needs to hire Nolan Cain

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I tend to blame PM more then Cain as PM was delegating pretty much the whole operation

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Cain was an incredibly lazy hire. He was starting to come into his own. But at the time he was made recruiting coordinator, he had only been an Ops guy and a Volunteer. Neither of those roles include off campus recruiting or scouting.

He was allowed to learn on the job at LSU, which shouldn't be happening at the salaries we pay. And it was done at a time when the HC had essentially abdicated all off campus recruiting responsibilities.

Mainieri got out on the road earlier, that's how he met and built a relationship with Cannizaro, but by the time Cain came around Mainieri wasn't talking to recruits outside of his office. Similar to how Van Horn has been doing things for about a decade. And how Schlossnagle was doing things at TCU and probably how he's doing them at A&M.

Alex Milazzo
Hayden Travinski
Javen Coleman
Will Hellmers
Josh Pearson
Sammy Dutton
Griffin Herring
Paxton Kling
Gavin Guidry
Jared Jones
Zeb Ruddell
Aiden Moffett
Ethan Frey
DJ Primeaux
Kade Anderson
Steven Milam
Brady Neal
Jake Brown
Ashton Larson
Trenton Lape

ETA: This is based on who the RC was when they committed to LSU. The 2024 class (next year's freshmen) is the first class that has no one that committed to the previous staff. The way the recruiting rules work now, we won't see the long time frames since guys can't really commit until just before their junior year.

I mean last year's championship team still had a Cannizaro recruit (Dugas).

So he was 14

He’s a young dude

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This is based on who the RC was when they committed to LSU. The 2024 class (next year's freshmen) is the first class that has no one that committed to the previous staff.

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OK, but from my perspective a commitment is not very relevant outside of maybe the first year after the guy leaves unless it is binding in some fashion (I don't know the particulars in baseball regarding LOIs and such). So I guess what I am thinking is it is hard to give Cain a lot of credit for these guys who didn't step foot onto LSU's campus until 1 full year after Cain and Mainieri were gone, Jay and his staff's second season.

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Griffin Herring
Paxton Kling
Gavin Guidry
Jared Jones
Zeb Ruddell
Aiden Moffett
Ethan Frey
DJ Primeaux
Brady Neal

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And it is even harder to give Cain any credit for guys who have only been at LSU for the current season, the third for this staff.,

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Kade Anderson
Steven Milam
Jake Brown
Ashton Larson

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Also, in my ignorance, I don't know who this is and he does not appear on the roster online.

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Trenton Lape

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But thanks for the insight, I appreciate what you offer here regarding the baseball team, I always like getting whatever info I can get.