Recruiting Forum Football Talk IX

If Tony had stayed, he would have been fine. He has equity. Elander doesn't. There is about a 2% chance we sneak into the tournament. We wouldn't even make the SEC tournament under the old rules.

He will have trouble retaining his roster. The ones that are good and eligible will go to the draft without a second thought. Recruiting will suffer. Portal will be hard. NIL will suffer as donors Will opt out. It's the way things are in today's system.

Baseball is a different animal. There’s so many good players all over the country. Look at how strong some of the mid-majors are every year. You don’t have to have a top 5 roster to compete.

I feel like Elander - or even if it was some other name and not Elander - will be able to field a very competitive roster even if dudes do leave. Also not convinced they will but I do understand that’s the world we live in.
 
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Too high stakes.

Zero patience from players
Zero patience from boosters
Zero patience from the common fan
Those boosters also just spent $110 million for a new palace that we don't seem to be able to get to 75% capacity for almost all of the games. Seems like we have also lost our home field edge we had with a little smaller stadium. Team has no juice and that starts at the top. We also seem to never adjust at the plate when it's clear that we need to try and manufacture some runs instead of playing gorilla ball. Most of the hitters just close their eyes and swing for the fences every single at bat. Levi Clark may have ton's of potential but he's virtually an automatic out and we keep trotting him out there to strike out. Baseball is a wonky sport but for the life of me I don't see why we don't try a different approach. Pressure will build quickly on Elander to turn it around next year as fans will quit showing up for bad baseball in a heartbeat. Hope he figures it out but the honeymoon will be over quickly if he doesn't. We are supposedly spending top 5 in baseball and certainly aren't getting a very good return on that investment currently.
 
Those boosters also just spent $110 million for a new palace that we don't seem to be able to get to 75% capacity for almost all of the games. Seems like we have also lost our home field edge we had with a little smaller stadium. Team has no juice and that starts at the top. We also seem to never adjust at the plate when it's clear that we need to try and manufacture some runs instead of playing gorilla ball. Most of the hitters just close their eyes and swing for the fences every single at bat. Levi Clark may have ton's of potential but he's virtually an automatic out and we keep trotting him out there to strike out. Baseball is a wonky sport but for the life of me I don't see why we don't try a different approach. Pressure will build quickly on Elander to turn it around next year as fans will quit showing up for bad baseball in a heartbeat. Hope he figures it out but the honeymoon will be over quickly if he doesn't. We are supposedly spending top 5 in baseball and certainly aren't getting a very good return on that investment currently.

We didn’t have a home field advantage last season either
 
Those boosters also just spent $110 million for a new palace that we don't seem to be able to get to 75% capacity for almost all of the games. Seems like we have also lost our home field edge we had with a little smaller stadium. Team has no juice and that starts at the top. We also seem to never adjust at the plate when it's clear that we need to try and manufacture some runs instead of playing gorilla ball. Most of the hitters just close their eyes and swing for the fences every single at bat. Levi Clark may have ton's of potential but he's virtually an automatic out and we keep trotting him out there to strike out. Baseball is a wonky sport but for the life of me I don't see why we don't try a different approach. Pressure will build quickly on Elander to turn it around next year as fans will quit showing up for bad baseball in a heartbeat. Hope he figures it out but the honeymoon will be over quickly if he doesn't. We are supposedly spending top 5 in baseball and certainly aren't getting a very good return on that investment currently.
The Texas A&M coach was promoted with the preseason #1 team last year, had an awful season, and didn’t make the tournament. Very similar to the players wanting him. This season, they are a very good team, who just took the series from Texas. Seems like it took him a year to adjust and get comfortable. He wasn’t even promoted in October, like Elander.

I know people don’t want to hear it because they assume the worst. But you have to give him a couple of seasons to see if he can figure it out. This team is still somewhat young.
 
Those boosters also just spent $110 million for a new palace that we don't seem to be able to get to 75% capacity for almost all of the games. Seems like we have also lost our home field edge we had with a little smaller stadium. Team has no juice and that starts at the top. We also seem to never adjust at the plate when it's clear that we need to try and manufacture some runs instead of playing gorilla ball. Most of the hitters just close their eyes and swing for the fences every single at bat. Levi Clark may have ton's of potential but he's virtually an automatic out and we keep trotting him out there to strike out. Baseball is a wonky sport but for the life of me I don't see why we don't try a different approach. Pressure will build quickly on Elander to turn it around next year as fans will quit showing up for bad baseball in a heartbeat. Hope he figures it out but the honeymoon will be over quickly if he doesn't. We are supposedly spending top 5 in baseball and certainly aren't getting a very good return on that investment currently.
The offense is really really hard to watch. Good post.
 
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Those boosters also just spent $110 million for a new palace that we don't seem to be able to get to 75% capacity for almost all of the games. Seems like we have also lost our home field edge we had with a little smaller stadium. Team has no juice and that starts at the top. We also seem to never adjust at the plate when it's clear that we need to try and manufacture some runs instead of playing gorilla ball. Most of the hitters just close their eyes and swing for the fences every single at bat. Levi Clark may have ton's of potential but he's virtually an automatic out and we keep trotting him out there to strike out. Baseball is a wonky sport but for the life of me I don't see why we don't try a different approach. Pressure will build quickly on Elander to turn it around next year as fans will quit showing up for bad baseball in a heartbeat. Hope he figures it out but the honeymoon will be over quickly if he doesn't. We are supposedly spending top 5 in baseball and certainly aren't getting a very good return on that investment currently.

Also Elander has been talking about it nonstop during pressers - the approach being taught as a team isn’t the issue.

They’re not supposed to be all swinging for the fences and look pull-happy. The players aren’t implementing the approach at the plate.

Ultimately falls on Elander for not being able to get through to them bc that’s his job. But he’s not teaching them to swing for the fences.

And agree, Levi is broken, at least for this season. Whenever Stone can return I would sit Levi again personally. Work him in here and there.
 
Also Elander has been talking about it nonstop during pressers - the approach being taught as a team isn’t the issue.

They’re not supposed to be all swinging for the fences and look pull-happy. The players aren’t implementing the approach at the plate.

Ultimately falls on Elander for not being able to get through to them bc that’s his job. But he’s not teaching them to swing for the fences.

And agree, Levi is broken, at least for this season. Whenever Stone can return I would sit Levi again personally. Work him in here and there.
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