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How has he not filled out his frame? Does he not have access to the best strength training facilities and nutrition programs in the world? What is he going to get in minor league baseball in that regard that he isn’t going at LSU?

He’s 20 years old
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It doesn’t but it’s also no where close to 6 lol. Maybe 8

Yeah it’s around 8
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This is the correct answer

It doesn’t take 10 hours. I live in Nashville and have done the drive many times. If it takes you 10 hours, you had a lot go wrong along the way. It’s honestly an easy drive. Only city between the two is Birmingham so not a lot of room for many traffic issues
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Traveling by bus from Nashville would be closer to 10 hours,

The number between his and yours is the real number.
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You think it's easier to predict which HS talent will transfer to the SEC than from the transfer portal?

That’s not what he said. Here’s the thing. When you recruit high school talent, absent guys like Crews and Curiel, you’re not expecting them to be day 1 starters from the moment you sign them. You can afford for some of them not to develop. When you sign someone from the portal, you’re expecting them to contribute/start from day 1, so a miss in the portal can be much more magnified than a miss in a high school class. We hit on everyone we signed from the portal last season. We didn’t in 2024 or (so far) this year.
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The LSU announcers definitely didn't get this memo then. This was reviewed one of the recent games and they thought the batter had to make an effort to avoid getting hit.

You either misheard or they were wrong.
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It's never really been called that way, though.

Yes it has. Ever since the rule change it’s exactly how it’s been called. You just can’t make an effort to get hit but you have no duty to avoid getting hit. As an LSU fan you should be well aware of this because Jay Johnson coaches guys to wear pitches and stand there if the ball is coming below the neck or above the knee.

re: A True MBB story this Year

Posted by lsufball19 on 3/16/26 at 3:35 pm to
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You’ve made the point already. Auburn never had much, they have success, fans gravitate to the excitement and it’s been sustained. LSU had success, lost it, fans know what it looks like so they know when they’re not being valued, they lose trust and it’s harder to get them back. Are you really this stupid?

Because I've watched fans come back in droves in similar situations. I already knew you were this stupid, so you thinking LSU would be done forever doesn't surprise me.

LSU hasn't had sustained success in basketball in almost 40 years. If fans were going to lose trust and never come back, fans going nuts over Will Wade never would have happened.

But let's make a deal, since you identify as a die-hard. If McMahon isn't fired this year, I don't expect to ever see you post about the basketball team again. Fair?
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the only real coverage gap is the area around St. Louis and KC. Other than that there's a team within a couple hours of every major metro area

And St Louis is only like 4 hours from Memphis and OKC is only like 5 from Kansas City, so even those cities aren't unreasonably far from a team, and those two cities also have other teams in other sports

Albuquerque, NM (1.15 million metro area) is really the only large city that isn't anywhere near a team, over 7+ hour drive to Phoenix, Denver, Dallas and OCK
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I would be interested to know how many teams NBA owners think is 'too many'

If I'm getting paid $500 million to sign off on a new team?

re: A True MBB story this Year

Posted by lsufball19 on 3/16/26 at 3:17 pm to
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Auburn isn’t LSU

what' your point? Fans are fans. Fans will follow a winner, whether it's at LSU or Rutgers

Fans are also, by their nature, overly dramatic...like you saying if a coach comes back, fans will never return.

re: A True MBB story this Year

Posted by lsufball19 on 3/16/26 at 3:14 pm to
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If McMahon comes back next year you will lose so many die hards it will never return.

Auburn was an absolute doormat program for its entire existence. Die hards didn't exist in their fanbase. Insert Bruce Pearl, a new arena, and sustained success, and they all came out of the woodworks. Fans can be a fickle bunch but they'll support a winning team. They won't just not come to games out of spite if LSU hires a coach who wins, regardless of how many years in a row they suck

re: A True MBB story this Year

Posted by lsufball19 on 3/16/26 at 3:11 pm to
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The idea that a program can "never recover" from failure is a myth in the NIL era.

It was a myth before the NIL era too. People just like to be dramatic about sports. "so and so will set the program back a decade" is said all the time and it's never true.

re: A True MBB story this Year

Posted by lsufball19 on 3/16/26 at 3:04 pm to
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There's never been a 4 year stretch this dire. And in the hypothetical scenario, the administration is perfectly ok with that.

SEc records by year
93-94: 5-11
94-95: 6-10
95-96: 4-12
96-97: 3-13
97-98: 2-14
98-99: 4-12
99-00: 12-4
00-01: 2-14
01-02: 6-10

That's a 9 year stretch of only having one team that wasn't horrible. We finished last in the West 5 out of 6 years in there and 5th place 2 of them.
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It’s more like it is starting to become insulting to the fans

starting to? LSU hasn't prioritized basically since the Lester Earl NCAA hack job. If you've been ok with buying season tickets the last 30+ years of the LSU not caring about basketball, one would think nothing could really get you to that level
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He was injured so much last year that it's hard to know for sure what he could do.

He didn't get hurt until the end of his second year here. He'd already been resigned to a pinch hitting role by that point. It was kind of sad. He'd struggled all year, finally had a big hit in a midweek game and pulled his hamstring rounding first base
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I don’t ever remember him even trying to change positions either. Too bad for us

he played some at 1st base in fall/spring practices. I know he didn't start any actual games there and can't remember whether he was inserted there in the middle of any games, but he definitely did at least get work at first while he was here
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You must’ve been rolling skeeter legs.

:lol: no

I just had a small glass pipe and would smoke a bowl every night
Been lightly spitting snowflakes all day, nothing hard at all though. Was 76 yesterday afternoon and a tornado warning last night. The low tonight is 23 and the high Friday is projected to be 82

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How Many 3.5 Grams Are in a Pound of Weed?
Given that 3.5 grams (an eighth of an ounce) is the most popular retail amount in the US, it’s very useful to know how many of those are in a 1lb bag of weed. The answer is 128, or 16 ounces times 8. As you can see, it’s an enormous amount. Even for a heavy smoker, an eighth means at least a couple of sessions, and 128 of them will get him covered a substantial part of the year.

When I was in college, I smoked daily. I generally would buy an ounce at a time and it would last me a few months. A pound would last someone, for personal use, several years
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I agree on this and feel like it's a compensation for the lack of infield defense.

I agree to an extent but we pitched the same way last year but our pitchers had better command to nibble the edges without walking a million dudes and we had an elite defense behind them, so it worked. I don’t think Jay anticipated our defense being this bad or guys like Evans to struggle so much with his command
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Used to be 5 of 14. We liked it better that way

Until somewhat recently, I think the only SEC school who had turf was Vandy. Tennessee and UGA both switched in the last 5 or so years, UGA more recently. Kentucky’s old park had real turf. And obviously OU and Texas weren’t in the SEC.