The NCAA Baseball Regionals are set and the Ragin Cajuns are the only team from Louisiana to be in the Field of 64. U-L Lafayette is a three-seed in the Starkville Regional and will play Cincinnati on Friday night. Mississippi State is the host school and Coach Matt Deggs says the Bulldogs home park is one of the best in college baseball…
Cut 18 (13) “…a great Regional”
LSU is not in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2011. They are the seventh team to fail to make a Regional after winning the College World Series the season before.
ESPN’s Jeff Passan is reporting former LSU pitcher Gage Jump is getting called up to the big leagues. The left-hander has been a strikeout machine for the Oakland As Triple-A team as he’s struck out 56 in 38 innings.
At the SEC Spring Meetings, Commissioner Greg Sankey said the league will not take a firm stance this week on expanding the College Football Playoff from 12 to 24 teams. Sankey says instead, they will use the meetings to brief university leaders and coaches on the pros and cons of an expansion…
Cut 6 (10) “….time”
College football leaders have until December 1st to decide if they want to expand the C-F-P to 24 teams, 16 teams or stay at 12 for the 2027 season. Sankey has been vocal in his opposition to a 24-team playoff, because it would devalue the regular season.
LSU football coach Lane Kiffin could be reprimanded for what he told Vanity Fair. Kiffin told the magazine that when he was coaching at Ole Miss, recruits told him their grandparents did not want them to live in Oxford because of it’s ties to the Confederacy. Kiffin has defended his comments by saying that people are not reading what he actually said.