Within the span of one hour, KM posts an article about Wagner visiting and an AUC.

Hmmmmm....

Quote from: azhog10 on Today at 02:42:06 pmThats not a bad idea if your able to pick up 10 or 11 quality guys. Hard to play more than that anyways.

Your spot on. You would hope to have some kind of assurance that the wouldn't jump ship, if you spent NIL money on a redshirt player. I Would have to believe his bargaining power would be greater as a top 5 HS player, than coming of of a redshirt year.

@JonRothstein
New Mexico's Richard Pitino has received a contract extension through the 2028-29 season, per release.
4:55 PM · May 7, 2024

Quote from: rhames on Today at 03:47:06 pmYou get 13 scholarships. They will fill all 13.

Cal doesn't always use all of his,
It's something UK fans complained about. It's plausible we don't take the full contingent

All-LSU Basketball Team of the last 33 seasons or so

Shaq '89-92  7-1 325 C
Naismith Hall of Fame... National Player of the Year ... 2-time SEC Player of the Year ... Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame inductee with Dale Brown ... 2-time 1st Team Consensus All-American ... SEC record for most blocks in a season three consecutive years (115-1990, 140-1991, 157-1992). Set SEC record for career blocks with 412... First player to lead the SEC in scoring, rebounding, field goal percentage and blocked shots in the same season, 1991. Led SEC in rebounding, field goal percentage, blocked shots and second in scoring, 1992. First player to lead the SEC in rebounding three straight seasons since Charles Barkley of Auburn, 1982-84... Finished with 1,217 rebounds, seventh all-time in the SEC, second all-time at LSU to Durand "Rudy" Macklin ... Six career triple-doubles (Points, Boards, Blocks) ... Highest earning former SEC player in the NBA until just recently ... One of just six SEC players and three LSU players on the NBA 75th Anniversary Team.

Big Baby Glen Davis '04-07  6-9 289 C
Third Team AP All-American, 2006; SEC Freshman of the Year, 2005; SEC Player of the Year, 2006; 11th all-time in scoring with 1,587 points (16.7 average); Eighth in rebounds (916) ... Member of the 2006 NCAA Final Four team for John Brady. Davis starred as the Tigers captured the SEC regular-season championship with a 14-2 record and then went on to defeat four teams en route to the NCAA Final Four. Just the sixth player in LSU history to have 1,500 career points and 900 rebounds and just the second (along with Shaqu) to have 1,500 career points, 900 rebounds and 100 blocked shots....Former SEC Network Analyst

Stromile Swift '98-00  6-10 PF
SEC Co-Player of the Year and Consensus 2nd Team All-American in 2000; Averaged 16.2 points and 8.2 rebounds in 2000 ... Blocked 95 shots in 2000. 4th most career blocked shots in LSU History (130) in just two seasons. Led the Tigers to the Sweet 16 round of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament his sophomore year, during the time when the LSU men's basketball program was under probation and had a limitation on scholarships. LSU All-Century Team. 2nd overall pick in the NBA draft, third only to Shaq and Ben Simmons from LSU. Averaged 8.4 ppg throughout the Noughties and on April 17, 2002, Swift scored a career-high 31 points and grabbed 10 rebounds for the Grizzlies.

Marcus Thornton '07-09  6-4 SG
SEC POY for LSU in '09 as a senior after playing two seasons for Kilgore (Rangerettes). He was two-time Coaches First Team All-SEC in his two seasons. LSU was 13-3 SEC champs in 2009 and made the NCAA second round. ... In two seasons at LSU, he finished with 1,347 points, 21st all-time and with a 20.4 scoring average, which ranked sixth all-time. He also finished eighth in school history with 168 three-pointers. Round 2 NBA selection was NBA All-Rookie Second Team. 12 ppg in eight NBA seasons and currently active. Thornton averaged over 21 ppg for Sacamento in '11.

Brandon Bass '03-05  6-8 250 PF
The first of the Tigers' three-straight SEC Freshmen of the Year in 2004. SEC Player of the Year, 2005. Bass led the Tigers to a SEC Western Division Championship and a berth in the NCAA Tournament and was named to the All-SEC Tournament team. LSU finished the year with a record of 20-10, 12-4 in SEC play. For the season, Bass averaged 17.3 points and 9.1 rebounds per game while shooting 56.7 percent from the floor and an outstanding 77.7 percent from the free-throw line. He had the most memorable game of his career against Ohio State on January 15, 2005, playing all 45 minutes of the overtime contest and scoring 29 points to lead the way to an LSU victory over the Buckeyes, 113-101. Bass started all 59 games in his LSU career and posted averages of 15.1 points and 8.3 rebounds per game as a Tiger. 8th all-time in blocked shots with 104. ... LSU All-Century Team. Bass left LSU after his sophomore year and was a 2nd round pick. He averaged 8.4 ppg from '05-17.


Tasmin Mitchell '05-10  6-7 245 F
2-time All-SEC ... ... starred in an NCAA Final Four and on two SEC Championship teams... 3rd All-Time Scorer at LSU with 1,989, a 14.5 points per game average for 137 career games. He averaged 11.4 points in 2006 when as a freshman he was a member of LSU's last NCAA Final Four team when he teamed with Baton Rouge products Tyrus Thomas, Glen Davis and Garrett Temple along with St. Martinsville's Darrel Mitchell in a great storyline of players that had been on the court together since they were youngsters. Mitchell is behind only Pete Maravich and Durand "Rudy" Macklin on LSU's scoring chart. His 950 rebounds remains sixth all-time and he stands behind five top names of LSU basketball history – Macklin, Shaquille O'Neal, Al Sanders, Bob Pettit and Ned Clark. He is one of just three players in LSU history to record 1,000 points, 500 rebounds, 200 assists and 100 steals in a career (with Clarence Caesar and Jerry Reynolds). His 4,692 minutes played is a school record as is his 137 games played and 136 starts. Was passed over for SEC player of the year by teammates Brandon Bass, Glen Davis and Marcus Thornton.

Ben Simmons '15-16 1-n-done...  No. 1 Overall Pick of 2016 NBA Draft... 1st Team Consensus All-American... 2015-16 Wayman Tisdale,  Sporting News, USA Today National Freshman of the Year... SEC Freshman of the Year... First Team All-SEC... Second Team All-American by ESPN, Sports Illustrated and Sporting News.

Cam Thomas '20-21  a
All NCAA D1 freshmen in scoring while posting one of the top freshman seasons in LSU Basketball history ... Averaged 23.0 points per game in LSU's 29 outings, 3.4 rebounds and 1.4 assists ... Averaged 33.9 minutes a game ... Consistent scoring throughout the season, averaging 23.1 points in the 17 SEC games ... Averaged 28.5 points in his two NCAA Tournament games (27 vs. St. Bonaventure-3/20; 30 vs. Michigan-3/22) ... Had 22 20-point games, the most 20-point games of any LSU player since Shaquille O'Neal in 1992 ... Finished with the 13th-highest scoring average by an LSU player in its history (minimum 20 games played) ...  His 22 games over 20 points was the most by a Division I freshman in 2020-21 ... His average includes a scoreless game at Ole Miss (Jan. 9) when he injured his ankle on his opening three-point attempt after four minutes of action ... It is the fourth-highest scoring average for a first-year player on the LSU team topped only by Pete Maravich as a sophomore in 1967-68 with 43.8, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf as a freshman in 1988-89 (30.2) and Bob Pettit as a sophomore in 1951-52 (25.5) ... His 668 points is 11th all-time at LSU for a single season ... When Thomas had games of 29, 32, 28 and 26 in succession against Nicholls (12/26), Texas A&M (12/29), at Florida (1/2) and Georgia (1/6), he became the only SEC freshman with a four-game 25-point streak in the past 25 seasons .... His 16 games of 25-points per more for the season are the most by an SEC freshman in the one-and-done era (since 2006) ... Had a 10-game streak of 20 points or more from Jan. 26 to March 6 ... First in the SEC and seventh in the nation in field goals made (203) ... First in the nation in free throws made at 194, the sixth-best single season in LSU history ... Led the SEC in free throw percentage at 88.2 percent (194-of-220) ... Set a school record with 42 consecutive makes at the free throw line ... It was tied for the seventh longest consecutive free throw streak in SEC history ... Drew 155 fouls this season and his 88.2 percentage is the fourth best for a season in LSU history (minimum 75 attempts) ...  27th draft pick late in the first round.

Tyrus Thomas '05-06  SEC Freshman of the Year and Co-Defensive Player of the Year after averaging 12.3 points, 9.2 rebounds and 3.1 blocks in 32 games (22 starts) while shooting over 60% from the field. Thomas was also recognized as the NCAA Atlanta Region MVP in the NCAA Tournament after combining for 30 points against Duke and Tejas... 4th NBA pick. Technically a redshirt freshman, Thomas is a non-traditional one-and-done.

Tremont Waters '17-19  5-10 175 PG
Had an outstanding sophomore campaign, leading the SEC in assists average and steals average and ranking fourth in the nation in steals average ... Averaged 15.3 points per game, 5.8 assists per game and 2.9 steals per game ... Set a school mark of 96 steals for the season, topping the 30-plus year mark of 93 set by Darryl Joe in 1987. In two seasons, recorded 390 assists, seventh all-time at LSU, with 163 steals, 11th all-time ... All-SEC First Team, 2018-19...All-SEC Defensive Team, 2018-19... SEC Co-Defensive Player of Year, 2018-19...Freshman All-SEC Team, 2018... 2019 NBA Draft - 2nd Round

Skylar Mays '16-20
Averaged 16.7 points, 5.0 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 1.8 steals per game ... Had a 1.4 assist-to-turnover ratio (100-70) ... Earned first-team All-SEC honors and for the third straight year was named a CoSIDA Academic All-America ...  Two career high games of 30 points – Also had 28 points at Arkansas (3/4) ... One of top free throw shooters at LSU, making 129-of-151 or 85.4 percent ... Finished T8 in the SEC in scoring, fifth in field goal percentage, fifth in free throw percentage, fourth in steals average, fifth in minutes average ... In the SEC, Mays averaged 17.6 points and 5.2 rebounds ...

Quote from: Dr. Strangepork on Today at 04:17:20 pmShe wasn't an every day starter because she split time in RF with other players.

Nia Carter
Games played 48
Games started 43

Quote from: BroyledNutts on Today at 03:14:34 pmWhat about the concept of letting your hitters hit, and
having your low production players run up the pitch counts, bunt, and base run ...
then structure a lineup to have a hitter every other or couple of count workers ...
Is that idea too archaic and simplistic for modern baseball? 

I don't know about you guys, but I've seen a lot of starters get yanked from the game
far faster if he's getting hit all over the park than if he's merely getting a high pitch count.

Who says that's not what's happening. As was posted earlier, hitters have a comfort zone, they're not all the same. Diggs, as an example, has always been a patient hitter & for the most part has been pretty successful with that approach.

Is he getting NIL or Medicare?

J/k!

Hope he makes history! Good luck young man!

Quote from: BroyledNutts on Today at 03:07:25 pmI think the issue most people may have with this is - and we're all aware of this - if our offense was producing well it wouldn't matter who was in center. It wouldn't be a problem to have Wilms in CF, and his weak bat in the lineup, because the other 8 would be carrying the load. But the majority aren't producing well; and adding yet another weak hitter into the lineup merely for his defensive acumen only results in sapping one of the few remaining opportunities for something - anything - in the way of offensive production; and in college baseball offense wins games, series, championships.

The bump in offense is minimal up til now. That offensive bump produced fewer runs last weekend than what was given up on defense in order to get the offensive bump.

Our Kajal Mistry is in second place at -9, one shot behind an English girl who plays for Florida State and recently won the Augusta National Women's Amateur. And we also have two girls tied for fourth at -5.

The important number is top 5 to advance to nationals, and we have a 19-shot cushion on the sixth place team. So someone has to go real low, or we'd have to blow up tomorrow, or both.