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There’s several fields here to consider.

Medical device sales and Pharma sales.

They are 2 different things and have different hours and regulatory environments. The closer to patient care the more highly regulated.

My advice…
1.) Create a LinkedIn account. Use ChatGPt to build your resume and work experience. Tell it to frame it for future medical device and pharma sales jobs.
2.) Connect with as many people as you can. Try and get over 500+. But try and meet as many people as you can in these sales roles. Connect with all of them. Then set the filters for the jobs you are looking for. Jobs will pop up. Once they do look through your network to find someone that knows someone that works for the company. If nothing else connect with the recruiter and the hiring manager and ask for an opportunity to talk about the role. If you do find someone that works for the company ask them to refer you. They get finders fees for referrals that get hired.

It’ll take time. But if you have the will to just network network network something will work out. Pharma is less demanding on quotas. Med sales will be high risk high reward. Both industries come with risk of layoffs.
For me

Whatever you do don’t wake him up in the night. Unless the house is getting robbed or on fire there’s not a real reason to wake him up. Even then it’s better for the robber or the fire to wake him up. ??
When he starts a kid at 1B that clearly hasn’t gotten reps at 1B and misses a basic cut for a 1B that’s on the coaches. You can’t blame Serna. Kid is a star. He’s young and introduced at a new position and looked like he’s never been coached on what to do there. When you take a freshman that’s played his whole career at SS and move him to 2B you can’t blame the kid. For people to be saying Ruckert should hit the portal have no clue what they are talking about. I’ve seen the kid play throughout HS. Kid is a star. He’s young. He’s exactly what we need here. But the coaches aren’t preparing the kids for the situations they’re putting them in. Full confidence in JJ to figure it out but this is on JJ and his staff. Clearly the kids need to perform better but it’s also abundantly clear their preparation isn’t there either. That’s on the coaches. High standards here. Accountability has the high for both coaches and players.
It’s ok to think highly of JJ and not want him fired but still be observant of some of the misses this season. I think he’s a phenomenal coach and his competitiveness will work to fix the problems. I really don’t think we’re out of anything yet but margins keep getting smaller.

2 observations…defensively the staff hasn’t prepared for additional options especially at 1B. I love giving Serna a go there but he whiffed on the cut and it cost us. Second we’re mid way through the season. With the fall and half of the season to not have settled on our infield is a huge miss. Clearly the kids aren’t hitting but we have no clue who our starting infield should be. Other than Milam the rest is a complete guess both offensively and defensively. To me that’s on the coaches. At some point he’s going to have to settle on a guy either for offensive or defensive.

Love JJ but as a staff they need to do better.
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He is getting the North Carolina job. Duke was almost available too. Would have been a massive bidding war.


What part of MID MAJOR do you not understand.

Let’s say the Stephen F Austin job opens up. They offer him 500k. We give him 500k also as a parting gift. He has a good job to try again and we get to move on at a much lower cost. From what I hear McM is a really good guy and very well liked. I’m not sure the appetite exists to kick him like we did Brian Kelly.
What if Verge understands the financials of the buyout and just isn’t ready to do it but has told McM it would be in his best interest to look around and find another job. As these mid major jobs open up of McM could land one of those I could see a scenario where Verge lets him exit gracefully and maybe sweetens the deal a bit without having to pay the whole buyout. Then we go after The General or possibly already have something in place because Wade and Rouse are already well connected.

If he can’t find something then he stays another year. The incentive is it’s easier and looks better on a resume to take a job while you have one. We did a very similar thing with Trent Johnson. This would also explain why it’s taking some time and he hasn’t been fired.

re: I charted every Oklahoma AB

Posted by tigereye58 on 3/20/26 at 10:20 am to
Wonder if you have this…how many of the first pitch strikes were takes versus swinging. Also how many were FB vs off speed. If a guy can locate first pitch off speed I always find they’re really effective the rest of the game. When it’s only FB it eventually leads to hits or walks.
Work every other way. BP needs to he nothing but off speed off the spin ball hitting line drives over short stop. Same thing for Dardar.

re: Some of you are wildly insecure

Posted by tigereye58 on 3/13/26 at 7:37 pm to
I’m not talking about the guys talking baseball. All the griping about the traditions of Vandy baseball. I mean get over it. Talk baseball. Mute the damn tv of you can’t take a whistle. We have the K lady. She’s an LSU tradition. Announcers have honestly been really respectful of LSU, Johnson, Bertman etc.
Come on now Project…you’re one of the good ones. lol

Some of you are wildly insecure

Posted by tigereye58 on 3/13/26 at 7:30 pm
It’s like you haven’t watched LSU Vandy baseball…ever.

The whistler…the announcer…Vandy Boys.

Mature a little. Get past the 19 yo BS and watch the baseball. You have no credit criticizing our guys play when you gripe about the stupid stuff. It’s like UGA fans complaining people stand up too much in Tiger Stadium.

Downvote if you’re insecure. Upvote if you’ve watched LSU baseball a time or 2.

BTW….our pitchers have to find the zone. Too many free passes.
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There is no cap on DSAs. LSU gave Jay an allowance for 40 roster spots.


I stand corrected. Then we just missed on some of these guys. Seems we recruited a bunch of pull side power hitters. Brown, Curiel, and Miliam can go the other way. The rest can’t.
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You do realize that they carry more than 34 man roster thanks to the grandfather clause, right?


Yes. My understanding is that was capped at 2 as designated student athletes. We are currently carrying 38 on roster but some of those may be injuries. Still it’s less than the 42 ish we’ve carried in the past.
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We need more Louisiana guys


I’d love more Louisiana guys but I think that’s a year to year thing. I do think he found some Louisiana guys that played elsewhere to transfer back. So far hasn’t really panned out yet.
I think these are just early struggles that eventually we’ll work through but I’m not as sure as I have been in the past for 2 reasons.

First the 34 man roster. Obviously everyone has the same limit but if you miss on a few of your evaluations it’s much more costly now. Especially on the mound.

Second, leaning into the transfer portal versus recruiting the high end 4 year guys. I think this part gets better as they get more comfortable but honestly I don’t think these transfers understand the expectations of LSU baseball. The culture is hard to build with 2 year guys. We’ve always had out of state guys but most of them were 4 year guys. I think with last years freshman class Jay is trying to shift back to the 4 year guys a little more but those guys aren’t ready yet. I’m a little worried we missed on some of these transfers. I still think the portal is important but the balance of 4 yr guys to portal guys is the tough question. Clearly finding Skenes in the portal was huge so evaluating portal guys will always be needed. The guys playing the best ball have been here a few years though.
Between Skip and Tony Robicheaux they are the 2 most class act coaches in the history of Louisiana baseball. Both of them helped build an incredible culture of Louisiana baseball. I’ll give them that.

And I’ll say Deggs recruits the Louisiana kid more than LSU now. Always felt like Skip went after Louisiana kids also. Don’t think Jay has to really anymore with the funding of 34 scholarships TOPPs doesn’t matter to LSU anymore.
It’s just 2 cameras on each dugout. Not even behind the plate. Supposedly it calls foul and fair also. I think each camera is set up down each foul line. I heard mixed reviews on it also. Doesn’t call the low curveballs very well.

I didn’t see it in person this weekend but talked to some 2D reps about it.

Trackman can do the same thing but obviously very expensive.
As a dad you’ll have to teach them a process for managing their mental emotions. They learn more from losing than they do from winning if they have the right mindset to frame the situation.

For me this is what I used.

Pick 2 skills they need to work on from each game. Don’t focus on the failure focus on what they can work on to get better for next game. Example…if they struck out twice on curve balls flush the strikeouts and let them tell you they want to work on hitting curve balls.

Last make them replay the best play or 2 they had in the game. Make them walk you through it in detail.

Remember the good. Work on the bad. Leave the emotions at the field.
Rose Born killed in her donut shop in Lake Charles was also a brutal crime that shook the community. This one and KK’s corner I think shook the community more than any other in my memory because of the unknowns surrounding them. Most murders have a clear connection of victim to criminal. These 2 did not.

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A ball won’t exist in 3 years. College baseball will take its place 100% and that is MLB’s intent. They’re wasting too much $ on kids that never develop enough that should have gone to college. That’s why the draft dropped to 15 rounds and will be only 10 rounds soon. Once it goes to 10 rounds A ball will go away.
No offense. Terrible QB play. Commercials haven’t been funny at all. TPUSA halftime show what pretty solid. But when does the football game start?