Sean98 said:trouble said:
Maybe he just doesn't want to be in competition with that many arms. Or with the change in pitching coaches, maybe he doesn't align with our needs.
You have to imagine a new position coach did a full evaluation on all the pitchers in the roster as well as the recruiting class. And then he had some hard decisions to make based on what he saw.
Joe Deertay said:
Look it sucks for the kid, but I ain't going to be mad at Coach Earley about this… Earley is coaching for his job the next two years, and he has to win now. If him Barry, Cain and Pennington thought this was the right decision.. you have to respect it. And appreciate that they did the hard thing and not the easy thing
BREAKING: Oregon 6-foot-5 265-pound transfer DH Naulivou Lauaki Jr. has committed to Georgia🐶
— Transfer Portal (@TransferPortal) June 29, 2026
Lauaki hit .321 with 14 HRs this past season.https://t.co/tw94dE0YzO pic.twitter.com/vZHHwzMuPM
Joe Deertay said:
I get what you're saying. And yes, it may be perceived as a D move, but… you could look at it this way too… and we don't know what happened… but what if you were able to build a pitching roster… that you felt was competitive if not massively better then what you were this last year… and you have a chance to land another arm that boosts your ability, and you have to decide to pass, or let go of someone… and you decide to let someone go… and you choose the hard part of letting someone go…. Does that make it a D move? Or just doing your job?
pdg88 said:
Naulivou Lauaki Jr. just comitted to Georgia.BREAKING: Oregon 6-foot-5 265-pound transfer DH Naulivou Lauaki Jr. has committed to Georgia🐶
— Transfer Portal (@TransferPortal) June 29, 2026
Lauaki hit .321 with 14 HRs this past season.https://t.co/tw94dE0YzO pic.twitter.com/vZHHwzMuPM
Kwall94 said:pdg88 said:
Naulivou Lauaki Jr. just comitted to Georgia.BREAKING: Oregon 6-foot-5 265-pound transfer DH Naulivou Lauaki Jr. has committed to Georgia🐶
— Transfer Portal (@TransferPortal) June 29, 2026
Lauaki hit .321 with 14 HRs this past season.https://t.co/tw94dE0YzO pic.twitter.com/vZHHwzMuPM
would've liked to have had him but we kinda already have a better fielding version of him in Jorian. This guy hit some bombs but K'd (59) more times than he got on base (54).
No. I think coaching changes flip the script for both parties, kids and teams. But I think it should be a hard decision (and maybe it was). That was in the first version of that I typed up on my phone but I accidently deleted somehow because I have the oldz. Guess I didn't get it back in the second version.trouble said:
But should a new position coach really have to be beholden to an offer made by his predecessor?
Kwall94 said:pdg88 said:
Naulivou Lauaki Jr. just comitted to Georgia.BREAKING: Oregon 6-foot-5 265-pound transfer DH Naulivou Lauaki Jr. has committed to Georgia🐶
— Transfer Portal (@TransferPortal) June 29, 2026
Lauaki hit .321 with 14 HRs this past season.https://t.co/tw94dE0YzO pic.twitter.com/vZHHwzMuPM
would've liked to have had him but we kinda already have a better fielding version of him in Jorian. This guy hit some bombs but K'd (59) more times than he got on base (54).
Sean98 said:
I'm going to live in a fantasy world for a minute... And to be fair, none of us really knows what happened here. And my statements here are going to be a little over the top. So bear with me.
Who enters the portal (from other teams) should. Not. Matter. Period. A coaches/programs/players word SHOULD matter. And being untrustworthy should be something that coaches and programs become aware of, and they should react accordingly. Write it on the bathroom wall at a coaches convention, post it on Reddit, program it into pitchcom, whatever the current info distribution system is. "Coach Xs word is no good." If you want to keep a few slots open for shiny toys so be it. Tell that HS kid, "I like you, and we MAY have a slot later, but it's not a certainly."
If you recruit a high school player, you give him an offer and he commits, that should be it. And this goes for the player too, although the program theoretically has far more long term reputational damage. The only reason coaches get away with it is because they (almost) all do it. Is like a town with only bad restaurants. You don't lose customers because there's no other options. Just because everyone acts poorly doesn't mean it should be accepted.
When recruiting the transfer portal you should look at the current roster spots and if a kid is committed then that spot is full. If you're going to process someone do it to a current roster player that hasn't performed. At least he had a chance to prove it and didn't.
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— Ryan Brauninger (@R_Brauninger) June 30, 2026
AggieNattie said:👀🍦🚂🌀 pic.twitter.com/FmTpJnWIyi
— Ryan Brauninger (@R_Brauninger) June 30, 2026
dermdoc said:Sean98 said:
I'm going to live in a fantasy world for a minute... And to be fair, none of us really knows what happened here. And my statements here are going to be a little over the top. So bear with me.
Who enters the portal (from other teams) should. Not. Matter. Period. A coaches/programs/players word SHOULD matter. And being untrustworthy should be something that coaches and programs become aware of, and they should react accordingly. Write it on the bathroom wall at a coaches convention, post it on Reddit, program it into pitchcom, whatever the current info distribution system is. "Coach Xs word is no good." If you want to keep a few slots open for shiny toys so be it. Tell that HS kid, "I like you, and we MAY have a slot later, but it's not a certainly."
If you recruit a high school player, you give him an offer and he commits, that should be it. And this goes for the player too, although the program theoretically has far more long term reputational damage. The only reason coaches get away with it is because they (almost) all do it. Is like a town with only bad restaurants. You don't lose customers because there's no other options. Just because everyone acts poorly doesn't mean it should be accepted.
When recruiting the transfer portal you should look at the current roster spots and if a kid is committed then that spot is full. If you're going to process someone do it to a current roster player that hasn't performed. At least he had a chance to prove it and didn't.
Amen. And if you commit to a school it is for three years,
Joe Deertay said:
I get what you're saying. And yes, it may be perceived as a D move, but… you could look at it this way too… and we don't know what happened… but what if you were able to build a pitching roster… that you felt was competitive if not massively better then what you were this last year… and you have a chance to land another arm that boosts your ability, and you have to decide to pass, or let go of someone… and you decide to let someone go… and you choose the hard part of letting someone go…. Does that make it a D move? Or just doing your job?
Sean98 said:dermdoc said:Sean98 said:
I'm going to live in a fantasy world for a minute... And to be fair, none of us really knows what happened here. And my statements here are going to be a little over the top. So bear with me.
Who enters the portal (from other teams) should. Not. Matter. Period. A coaches/programs/players word SHOULD matter. And being untrustworthy should be something that coaches and programs become aware of, and they should react accordingly. Write it on the bathroom wall at a coaches convention, post it on Reddit, program it into pitchcom, whatever the current info distribution system is. "Coach Xs word is no good." If you want to keep a few slots open for shiny toys so be it. Tell that HS kid, "I like you, and we MAY have a slot later, but it's not a certainly."
If you recruit a high school player, you give him an offer and he commits, that should be it. And this goes for the player too, although the program theoretically has far more long term reputational damage. The only reason coaches get away with it is because they (almost) all do it. Is like a town with only bad restaurants. You don't lose customers because there's no other options. Just because everyone acts poorly doesn't mean it should be accepted.
When recruiting the transfer portal you should look at the current roster spots and if a kid is committed then that spot is full. If you're going to process someone do it to a current roster player that hasn't performed. At least he had a chance to prove it and didn't.
Amen. And if you commit to a school it is for three years,
I don't know that it needs to be for a set/specific number of years. Just treat it like free agency. Sign a contract. You can offer 1-5 years. But it binds both ways. Either side ends it and there's an early termination penalty. Years becomes part of the negotiation.
Personally I think all NCAA sports needs to move to what the MLB is currently proposing. Set a floor and a ceiling on NIL salary sport by sport. If a team breaks the contract with a player then the amount remaining on the contract counts as dead money against your cap. If a big team poaches a kid from a little team then they have to pay the termination penalty to the little team and that amount counts against the cap for the big team while putting $$ in the pocket if the little team that can be used for NIL. It would take some statutory changes but it's doable (if not likely).
You might want to distinguish between NIL paid by the university in support of the House settlement directly to student athletes notionally based on their value in our marketing (but really just a revenue distribution of about $20.3 million which is a hard cap and some of that covers the new scholarship roster spots) as opposed external NIL from say Nike or Coca Cola which are representation deals based on the notoriety of specific athletes like celebrity basketball players or the more famous good medalists or pro football stars.Sean98 said:
Poorly stated perhaps. I simply meant a salary floor/cap. And in college that salary is NIL.
Sean98 said:dermdoc said:Sean98 said:
I'm going to live in a fantasy world for a minute... And to be fair, none of us really knows what happened here. And my statements here are going to be a little over the top. So bear with me.
Who enters the portal (from other teams) should. Not. Matter. Period. A coaches/programs/players word SHOULD matter. And being untrustworthy should be something that coaches and programs become aware of, and they should react accordingly. Write it on the bathroom wall at a coaches convention, post it on Reddit, program it into pitchcom, whatever the current info distribution system is. "Coach Xs word is no good." If you want to keep a few slots open for shiny toys so be it. Tell that HS kid, "I like you, and we MAY have a slot later, but it's not a certainly."
If you recruit a high school player, you give him an offer and he commits, that should be it. And this goes for the player too, although the program theoretically has far more long term reputational damage. The only reason coaches get away with it is because they (almost) all do it. Is like a town with only bad restaurants. You don't lose customers because there's no other options. Just because everyone acts poorly doesn't mean it should be accepted.
When recruiting the transfer portal you should look at the current roster spots and if a kid is committed then that spot is full. If you're going to process someone do it to a current roster player that hasn't performed. At least he had a chance to prove it and didn't.
Amen. And if you commit to a school it is for three years,
I don't know that it needs to be for a set/specific number of years. Just treat it like free agency. Sign a contract. You can offer 1-5 years. But it binds both ways. Either side ends it and there's an early termination penalty. Years becomes part of the negotiation.
Personally I think all NCAA sports needs to move to what the MLB is currently proposing. Set a floor and a ceiling on NIL salary sport by sport. If a team breaks the contract with a player then the amount remaining on the contract counts as dead money against your cap. If a big team poaches a kid from a little team then they have to pay the termination penalty to the little team and that amount counts against the cap for the big team while putting $$ in the pocket if the little team that can be used for NIL. It would take some statutory changes but it's doable (if not likely).
Sean98 said:
Poorly stated perhaps. I simply meant a salary floor/cap that MLB is proposing. And in college that salary is primarily NIL.
HoustonAg2106 said:Sean98 said:
Poorly stated perhaps. I simply meant a salary floor/cap that MLB is proposing. And in college that salary is primarily NIL.
If you are referring to the revenue sharing distribution to the players then there is already a cap on that.
All NIL compensation beyond that really cannot be stopped legally. That would be like the NFL telling Pat Mahomes he is in too many State Farm commercials and making too much money
Sean98 said:
Poorly stated perhaps. I simply meant a salary floor/cap that MLB is proposing. And in college that salary is primarily NIL.
RED AG 98 said:HoustonAg2106 said:Sean98 said:
Poorly stated perhaps. I simply meant a salary floor/cap that MLB is proposing. And in college that salary is primarily NIL.
If you are referring to the revenue sharing distribution to the players then there is already a cap on that.
All NIL compensation beyond that really cannot be stopped legally. That would be like the NFL telling Pat Mahomes he is in too many State Farm commercials and making too much money
True. But the collectives and various "NIL" bodies are really just recruiting extensions and not NIL in spirit at all. Not sure how the NCAA or whatever comes next can address this but this is the major difference between State Farm paying Mahomes and Cody Campbell paying $1M for a softball pitcher.
