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LSU Baseball has 3 pre-season All-Americans

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I read a LSU player gave back his scholarship because he made enough NIL money.


This could be a way to even the playing field with Vandy.
Doesn’t not being on scholarship mean that you are excluded from things? Maybe not important for baseball.
 
Excluded from what? He's an athlete so he has access to everything all the other ballplayers do.
There's probably some specific criteria which the student needs to meet in order to receive / continue to receive athletics grant in aid. But as you stated, Batgirl, this has nothing to do with access to "other amenities."
 
Excluded from what? He's an athlete so he has access to everything all the other ballplayers do.
At least for football you can have as many on the team roster as you want during the season. After the season you are limited to 105 football players on your roster. 85 can be on scholarship leaving 20 non-scholarship walkons. The 105 can eat at the training table, take advantage of trainer's medical care, lift weights, practice in the spring, etc. So there are limits on other amenities, you have to be on a roster.
 
At least for football you can have as many on the team roster as you want during the season. After the season you are limited to 105 football players on your roster. 85 can be on scholarship leaving 20 non-scholarship walkons. The 105 can eat at the training table, take advantage of trainer's medical care, lift weights, practice in the spring, etc. So there are limits on other amenities, you have to be on a roster.
Of course. I was taking it that the kid at LSU was remaining on roster, regardless of his scholarship status. As you say, as long as you're on roster, you have access to the amenities.
 
Of course. I was taking it that the kid at LSU was remaining on roster, regardless of his scholarship status. As you say, as long as you're on roster, you have access to the amenities.
Yeah, if he is a "prominent" player he would have to stay on the roster, scholarship or not.
 
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No one is saying that the program hasn't fallen. But we were only premier for a minimum number of years. What we're doing now if more reflective of our overall history than anything. We'd have winning seasons, make the postseason, and from there it's a crap shoot. As it is for the majority of the programs. Even hosting Supers is more of a crapshoot than many choose to acknowledge.

I think too many people have built up those three years as being more the rule rather than the exception. Omaha is always a goal, yes. As it is for the other 180 (+/-) ballclubs out there. For a program such as ours, making the postseason, hopefully good enough to host as a 1 seed, is the most realistic and attainable goal we have each year.

After 45 years of watching and studying college baseball, and it's very cyclical nature, I know it all will come back around. Baseball, more than any other sport, depends moreso on when you get hot.

It's also the reason why I won't start a season with a defeatist attitude as many of you do. I'll let the season play out first.
I can respect this, however not having a single Gamecock on the Preseason All America list is most certainly foreshadowing for the upcoming season.
 
I read a LSU player gave back his scholarship because he made enough NIL money.


This could be a way to even the playing field with Vandy.
Need to find a way NIL $ can be used to do away with Vandy Whistler 🤔
 
I can respect this, however not having a single Gamecock on the Preseason All America list is most certainly foreshadowing for the upcoming season.
It's really not foreshadowing anything. Sam Dyson (3rd Team Louisville Slugger) and Nick Ebert (3rd Team NCBWA) were our only 2 in 2010.
And there have been years we've had multiple All-Americans and not done what was expected.
 
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Law suit

That was adjudicated in June 2021.

"Under SCOTUS’ ruling, individual Division I athletic conferences may now independently set the rules for education-related compensation or benefits that their member institutions may provide to college athletes, free from NCAA rules that the court found violate the antitrust laws. According to the injunction, the NCAA is “permanently restrained and enjoined from agreeing to fix or limit compensation or benefits related to education” that conferences may make available."
 
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