No prob!!!! :yelwink2:

I don't post that much here, but I was actually happy to see that article in the paper because I totally agree with PM's statements and I'm happy to see that he's doing a little self-reflection on the program right now. At least he's still not blaming on the new bats or bad luck. :thumb:

Put a fork in the Tigers for this year.

Haven't our recruiting classes been regarded as at least amongst the best the past few years? I know recruiting rankings can be guess work, but how do we have a lack of talent? I don't get it.

Yeah, I would've liked to see the actual question he was responding to in order to get the full context instead of a pull quote. The story makes it sound like Mainieri thought his kids couldn't hack it.

Manieri is using hindsight. Clearly our guys were not as good as most of the rest of the SEC. I'm hoping the new guys will develop into the studs they were projected to be. On the bright side, a weekend rotation of Eades, McCune and Gausman for the next 2 years does not suck. The Tigers won't stay down for long.

Mainieri.

surprisingly, we failed to get Top 25 recruiting classes for 2 of the last 3 seasons, at least according to Baseball America

those last three recruiting classes are our whole team, other than our two seniors (Alsup and Bradshaw)

you'd think coming off a season where we went to the CWS, we'd be rated higher in Fall 2008, and you'd think coming off a National Championship season, we'd be rated higher in Fall 2009

FALL 2010 BASEBALL AMERICA RECRUITING CLASS RANKINGS (Spring 2011 freshmen)
1. Stanford
2. LSU -- Jacoby Jones, Raph Rhymes, Ty Ross, McCune, Gausman, Eades, etc
3. UCLA
4. San Diego
5. Oregon
6. Florida
7. Georgia Tech
8. Arkansas
9. Rice
10. Cal State Fullerton
11. California
12. Vanderbilt
13. North Carolina
14. Oregon State
15. Oklahoma State
16. Southern California
17. San Diego State
18. Mississippi
19. South Carolina
20. Auburn
21. Oklahoma
22. Mississippi State
23. Nebraska
24. Louisville
25. Maryland

FALL 2009 BASEBALL AMERICA RECRUITING CLASS RANKINGS (Spring 2010 freshmen)
1. Florida
2. Stanford
3. Arizona State
4. TCU
5. Cal State Fullerton
6. Texas
7. North Carolina
8. Mississippi State
9. Virginia
10. Central Florida
11. North Carolina State
12. Mississippi
13. Vanderbilt
14. Tennessee
15. Kentucky
16. Oklahoma
17. Miami
18. Michigan
19. UCLA
20. Clemson
21. Rice
22. Oregon State
23. Missouri
24. Oregon
25. Louisville
(LSU -- Trey Watkins, Mason Katz, Alex Edward, etc)

FALL 2008 BASEBALL AMERICA RECRUITING CLASS RANKINGS (Spring 2009 freshmen)
1. Arizona State
2. Vanderbilt
3. Georgia
4. Kentucky
5. Florida
6. Texas A&M
7. UCLA
8. Arkansas
9. TCU
10. Oregon
11. Mississippi
12. Texas
13. Clemson
14. Virginia
15. Cal State Fullerton
16. Wichita State
17. Fresno State
18. Stanford
19. Oklahoma State
20. Louisville
21. Pepperdine
22. Southern California
23. North Carolina State
24. Florida State
25. Duke
(LSU -- Hanover, Nola, Mahtook, Ott, Grant Dozar, Beau Didier, etc)

I'll be damned.

Very interesting. I didn't know that. More reason to believe that last year's #1 (or 2) class is setting the stage for better things.

He's eligible for the draft after next year. It sucks because his junior year could be a good year for a title run.