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Gables Cane said:
The finna drag you on here if he does…these cats keep receipts!
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flagator86 said:
keep believing that. Lagway not going anywhere
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Pressure bursts pipes… let’s see what happens when the big boys come hard after him. Especially the teams built to win and need a quarterback like him

Unless you guys are actually gonna back the brinks truck up for him just to prove a point
 
flagator86 said:
keep believing that. Lagway not going anywhere
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Very silly of you to talk in absolutes like that. You know better. UF is going to have a rough year, you're going to have to ride that out with your recruits, people are projecting you to regress which is a bad look for a new coach. Wheels could easily come flying off.
 
I haven’t really mentioned him de-committing for football purposes, but there’s always that possibility. Especially when the Texas schools come calling; let’s be honest here: both Miami and UF (more so UF at this point due to Napier’s lack of recruiting success compared to Mario) are in that second tier where even when we have big dogs commit, we have to fend off the UGA’s/Bama’s/Texas’s/A&M/OSU’s of the college football world. Those schools have the luxury of sitting back and waiting, ready to cherry pick whomever they choose. And why shouldn’t they feel this way?

Now where I’m leaning pretty heavily (and have said this before), is that I think he goes pro in baseball. MLB organizations have placed a premium on talented and projectable high school athletes because they’re cheaper to sign longterm (edit - even though high schoolers usually get more $$ than college guys the deeper into the draft, these guys get more bank for their buck, hence why I say "cheaper". Probably should change that to "better investment").

. They love stockpiling talent on fresh and raw guys rather than grabbing college players that despite more proven, have a bit more wear and tear and usually demand more money.

Lagway was throwing mid 80’s as a 14-year old, and while I haven’t seen too much recent film on him, he’s definitely a guy that could go high enough to warrant a serious discussion as to whether he wants to even entertain college. He’s got plenty of tools from a baseball perspective - speed, a live arm, great fielding, hits gap-to-gap and displays a little bit of pop. If he can add some muscle to his frame, obviously that power aspect increases.

As of now, I’d say he goes pro out of high school.
 
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WeBallinBoyz said:
I haven’t really mentioned him de-committing for football purposes, but there’s always that possibility. Especially when the Texas schools come calling; let’s be honest here: both Miami and UF (more so UF at this point due to Napier’s lack of recruiting success compared to Mario) are in that second tier where even when we have big dogs commit, we have to fend off the UGA’s/Bama’s/Texas’s/A&M/OSU’s of the college football world. Those schools have the luxury of sitting back and waiting, ready to cherry pick whomever they choose. And why shouldn’t they feel this way?

Now where I’m leaning pretty heavily (and have said this before), is that I think he goes pro in baseball. MLB organizations have placed a premium on talented and projectable high school athletes because they’re cheaper to sign. They love stockpiling talent on fresh and raw guys rather than grabbing college players that despite more proven, have a bit more wear and tear and usually demand more money.

Lagway was throwing mid 80’s as a 14-year old, and while I haven’t seen too much recent film on him, he’s definitely a guy that could go high enough to warrant a serious discussion as to whether he wants to even entertain college. He’s got plenty of tools from a baseball perspective - speed, a live arm, great fielding, hits gap-to-gap and displays a little bit of pop. If he can add some muscle to his frame, obviously that power aspect increases.

As of now, I’d say he goes pro out of high school.
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Also less wear and tear on his body as opposed to taking hits in college
 
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As a football fan I don't like to admit it but if you've got a legit shot at being an early pick in the MLB draft, playing football is pretty stupid. You're getting guaranteed money right out of high school, ( a lot more than 99% of NIL deals football players get) you get to go right into a minor league system and if you do end up as a major leaguer, the average salary is significantly higher than NFL players, even quarterbacks. You can always go back to college on a football scholarship if your baseball career fizzles out. That's not even mentioning the physical toll that football takes on your body long term versus baseball.

Look, if Lagway was committed to us, I'd be hoping against hope that he doesn't sign a baseball contract but looking at it objectively, a first or second round pick in the draft would be pretty stupid to turn it down to play college football.
 
DTP said:
As a football fan I don't like to admit it but if you've got a legit shot at being an early pick in the MLB draft, playing football is pretty stupid. You're getting guaranteed money right out of high school, ( a lot more than 99% of NIL deals football players get) you get to go right into a minor league system and if you do end up as a major leaguer, the average salary is significantly higher than NFL players, even quarterbacks. You can always go back to college on a football scholarship if your baseball career fizzles out. That's not even mentioning the physical toll that football takes on your body long term versus baseball.

Look, if Lagway was committed to us, I'd be hoping against hope that he doesn't sign a baseball contract but looking at it objectively, a first or second round pick in the draft would be pretty stupid to turn it down to play college football.
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Agree… in the past we always got highly rated guys to commit to the baseball program only for them to go pro because they were a first round pick or second
 
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