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@d1baseball
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🚨BREAKING: The NCAA is expected to announce today that the baseball and softball championships will allow 100 percent capacity if local and state guidelines allow for it. This is massive news for both sports.
🚨SOURCES: The
@NCAA
Division I Council has approved a measure to turn all volunteer positions in baseball and softball (and in all sports) into a full-time coaching position without recruiting constraints. Volunteers will officially become full-time coaches on July 1, 2023.
The most important first pitch ever. My favorite parts of it include A) Bush throwing a strike from the regular rubber and B) Derek Jeter telling the POTUS he better not bounce it up to the plate. No pressure, right?
BREAKING: The 2020
#MLBDraft
is moving from New Jersey to Omaha. The draft will be held Wednesday, June 10 through Friday, June 12, the eve of the
@NCAACWS
TRANSFER UPDATE:
@NCStateBaseball
freshman sensation slugger Tommy White, who set the NCAA record for home runs in a single season by a freshman, has entered the transfer portal this morning. Wow.
BREAKING: The
@NCAA
Division I Council has PASSED legislation, effective August 1, that would allow teams to give need-based/merit aid without it counting against a program’s scholarship total. This is big news for college baseball.
SUPERS ARE SET:
Tennessee vs. Notre Dame
Stanford vs. UCONN
Oregon State vs. Auburn
Virginia Tech vs. Oklahoma
Texas A&M vs. Louisville
Ole Miss vs Southern Miss
Arkansas vs. North Carolina
East Carolina vs. Texas
This is gonna be good, folks.
BREAKING: The legislation to add a paid third assistant in college baseball and softball has new life. The legislation will be voted on AGAIN in October.
Details:
BREAKING:
@SEC
athletic directors have approved a normal baseball season structure for this spring. No change to the conference schedule. ADs also voted to increase the
#SEC
travel roster from 27 to 30
So, baseball players, as expected, are getting a year of eligibility back. The most likely scenario here is getting rid of the 27 players on scholarship cap (for one year) and getting rid of the 25% minimum rule (for one year). We’ll see what the
@NCAA
decides.
Let me give some serious, serious props to
@Husker_Baseball
. I knew those guys were legit coming into this regional, and frankly, they should’ve hosted (thanks Big Ten leadership for no non-conference games). Will Bolt has the Big Red on the right path, folks.
🚨BREAKING: Some big news in the recruiting world, as the
@NCAA
Division I Council has passed a revamped Baseball Recruiting Model that does not allow ANY contact TO or FROM a recruit or their family until August 1 of their junior year.
"If you're one of the best players in the transfer portal, we're the place to play," --
@LSUbaseball
head coach Jay Johnson as he looked down at Paul Skenes, Thatcher Hurd and Tommy White in the presser (all three were obviously transfers).
.
@LSUbaseball
coach Jay Johnson did an incredible job with this
#LSU
team in 2023. Insanely high expectations, preseason No. 1, and the Tigers never flinched.
A++++ Job.
So, I’ve got the family here in Baton Rouge with me. My wife comes out of the bedroom while I have Vandy on. “Can you turn that game on mute? That whistling is driving me insane”.
Welcome to our world, honey.
BREAKING: The
@NCAA
Oversight Committee has APPROVED a waiver for the 2023-24 academic year to take
@NCAABaseball
to a 40-man roster along with allowing 32 players (counters) to be on scholarship. Good work by the
@ABCA1945
to make progress on this front.
It was a rough day for college baseball. But as I’ve learned over the past couple of decades, this sport is filled with tough and passionate people. Whether it’s March 30th or later this summer, or even fall, the sport will be back. And don’t be surprised if it’s better than ever
SOURCES: Beginning in 2025 with the addition of Texas and OU, the
@SEC
will move to a regular season schedule that will include two series each year against permanent opponents and eight series against rotating opponents for 30 games. The
#SEC
also will go to a single division.
SCOOP:
@Husker_Baseball
has made a huge hire, adding former
@AggieBaseball
head coach Rob Childress as its Director of Player Development. Childress is such a cool and terrific addition for Will Bolt and the
#Huskers
.
#GBR
#B1G
What a story of patience and redemption for
@OleMissBSB
coach Mike Bianco. People in Oxford left him for dead and wanted him out of there a month ago. Now, he's playing for the national title.
🚨TRANSFER SCOOP: Massive day for
@LSUbaseball
head coach
@LSUCoachJ
as
#LSU
has landed coveted
@NCStateBaseball
first baseman Tommy White out of the Transfer Portal. White set the NCAA freshman home run record with NC State this past season.
BREAKING: The
@NCAA
D1 Council is expected to vote Wednesday on a measure that would allow schools to stack need-based/merit aid with athletic aid, but with only the athletic aid counting against the 11.7. This would be significant news for many college baseball programs.
I can tell you from talking to multiple sources overnight that many powerful people in college baseball are mobilizing to put together a ground force to promote progressive and positive change in our sport. And now, and not later. Lots of urgency and it’s great to see. Finally.
Some postseason news that fans will really like: The
@NCAA
announced that moving forward the home team in every level of the postseason will be higher seeded team.
@NCAABaseball
🚨SOURCES: The
@SEC
has decided on two permanent opponents for baseball beginning in 2025.
Alabama: Auburn, Tennessee
Arkansas: Ole Miss, Missouri
Auburn: Alabama, Georgia
Florida: Georgia, South Carolina
Georgia: Florida, Auburn
Kentucky: South Carolina, Vanderbilt
LSU:…
The
@NCStateBaseball
Removal.
I spoke on the record with the
#NCAA
and with various sources inside the
@NCStateBaseball
program.
Here are the facts:
The timeline of events leading up to the NCAA’s decision to remove
#NCState
.
READ:
Our Super Regional game has been over for a hour and
@KevinKopps
, who pitched his heart out, is still at Baum-Walker Stadium signing autographs for kids.
#OneRazorback
I realize people are just doing their jobs, but I don’t get the journalistic craze with looking at tweets from six or seven years ago when guys were in high school.
I don’t care what college baseball players said a week ago, much less when they were 13 or 14. Maybe I’m odd.
🚨BREAKING:
@BaylorBaseball
will hire McLennan (TX) College coach Mitch Thompson as its new head coach, sources tell
@d1baseball
. Thompson, who carried McLennan to the JUCO national title last season, has 23 years of Division I coaching experience as well.
#Baylor
#Sicem
This all sets the stage for a wonderful Monday night winner take all:
@LSUbaseball
will have Skenes/Hurd/Cooper/Herring
@GatorsBB
will have Cags/Fisher/Neely/Slater
Game on.
This is just outrageous.
@NCStateBaseball
freshman slugger Tommy White finished the weekend with:
14 AB
.643 AVG
5 HR
12 RBI
.688 OBP
1.714 SLG%
What a weekend.
TRANSFER NEWS: This is a big one.
@GoShockersBSB
two-way superstar Payton Tolle has entered the portal,
@d1baseball
has learned. Tolle struck out 97 and walked 19, while also hitting .311 with 13 HRs, 50 RBIs this spring. First Team All-AAC.
⭐️SUPERS SET⭐️
Wake Forest vs. Alabama
Texas vs. Stanford
LSU vs. Kentucky
Southern Miss vs. Tennessee
Florida vs. South Carolina
Duke vs. Virginia
Oregon vs. Oral Roberts
Indiana State vs. TCU
@d1baseball
X
@NCAABaseball
SOURCES:
@TCU_Baseball
is expected to host the Super Regional series against Indiana State because of some logistical issues in Terre Haute,
@d1baseball
has learned. Really hate that Mitch Hannahs and the
#Sycs
won't be able to host at home after earning a regional host.
BREAKING:
@LSUbaseball
is hiring
@Twins
pitching coach Wes Johnson as its new pitching coach, sources tell
@d1baseball
. Johnson has spent the last four seasons with the
#Twins
and marks a blockbuster hire for Jay Johnson.
#LSU
.
@HailStateBB
legend and
@SEC
hit king Jake Mangum leaves the field for the final time in an MSU uniform. He will go down as one of my top few favorite players ever to cover. Hat tip to you,
@jakemangum15
.
This aerial view of the Softball CWS is sweet. Wish Omaha was a slightly smaller more confined environment. Rather than the big league professional feel
Let’s just go ahead and give Kevin Kopps the
@d1baseball
Player of the Year and
@USAGoldenSpikes
Awards right now.
What a performance. What a season. What a competitor.
We were pretty high on
@RazorbackBSB
coming into the season. We had Arkansas ranked No. 2 entering the spring.
#Hogs
didn't start playing like it until Regional weekend, but better late than never. This team is ultra dangerous in Omaha. Playing at an elite level.
#WPS
If you’re going to play baseball (or sports in general), you should always play it to win it and do your absolute best. If a pitcher is going to throw a 3-0 pitch right down the middle, hit it up in the upper deck.
Rangers manager Chris Woodward on Fernando Tatis Jr. swinging 3-0 on his grand slam: "I didn't like it personally. You're up by 7 in the 8th inning, it's typically not a good time 3-0. It's kind of the way we were all raised in the game. But ... the norms are being challenged."
If you’re ever doubting the development you will get in college baseball, Trey Sweeney was not ranked nationally by anyone out of high school and was ranked No. 68 … in the State of Kentucky. Now, he’s a first-round pick to the
@Yankees
.
College baseball as a whole needs to go all-in on trying to improve:
1) Scholarships
2) Coach-To-Player Ratios
Don’t worry about other things that are totally pointless like recruiting calendars.
BREAKING: The
@NCAA
Division I Committee for Legislative Relief has given D1 Baseball relief. Includes (for the 2020-21 academic year):
* 35-man roster cap lifted. No limitation.
* Annual counter has increased from 27 to 32
* The 25% scholarship minimum eliminated for a year.
.
@GatorsBB
has been eliminated from the NCAA tourney with a 19-1 loss to South Alabama. Florida began the season preseason ranked No. 1. Now, it’s done.
CLARIFICATION: Spoke with the
@NCAA
— the roster limit is essentially scrapped for the 2021 season. Any senior who returns will NOT count against your 35/27 roster limits in college baseball. There’s no ‘set’ number. Just applies to returning seniors.
We will see you tomorrow night.
@LSUbaseball
closes out Wake Forest 5-2 behind strong pitching yet again.
We 'should' have the matchup we've all wanted:
Rhett Lowder vs. Paul Skenes.
#popcorn
How about
@OU_Baseball
two-sport standout Kyler Murray? Practiced at 6 AM Friday for
@OU_Football
, drove to Fort Worth, hit two HRs in a win over
#TCU
. Flew back home last night, scrimmaged this AM for the football team and will be in lineup for the 1:30 game today.
#dedication
Great quote from Jim Schlossnagle on
@RazorbackBSB
’s pitching:
“All you can say about their pitching — their 10th guy out there this weekend, Jaxon Wiggins, was 96-98 with a nasty slider. It was like they were having tryouts or something."
COACHING NEWS: I love this hire.
@utahbaseball
announces former
@HailStateBB
interim HC Gary Henderson as its new associate head coach.
#Utah
made a terrific, terrific addition here with Hendo.
#Pac12
#Utes
SCOOP:
@HailStateBB
gave head coach Chris Lemonis a new four-year deal with a base salary of $1.25 million. Also of note, Mississippi State gave sizable bonuses to its assistant coaches and now has the highest paid staff in college baseball.
#HailState
There's a guy in left field at this A&M and Alabama game wearing an Arkansas baseball jersey flying a massive Arkansas Razorbacks flag.
That's very very
#SEC
.
SOURCES: I’ve confirmed that
@BGSU_Baseball
has indeed raised enough money to be kept as a varsity sport at Bowling Green. This is terrific news.
@JordanStrack
reports alums raised over $1.5M to keep the program intact. Outstanding news for
#MACtion
and college baseball.
How about this from
@OleMissBSB
RHP Dylan DeLucia?
In two starts at the College World Series:
16.2 IP, 8 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 17 K
Get that man a statue at Swayze,
#Rebels
fans.
Love the standing ovation for
@SouthernMissBSB
HC Scott Berry, who is retiring. Also very cool that the Tennessee team is tipping their cap to him.
Scott Berry was a wonderful coach, but he's an even better person. Great career.
George Bush helped guide
@YaleBaseball
to its two
@NCAACWS
appearances in 1947 and 1948, and also once shook hands with Babe Ruth during his college days at Yale.