Just my opinion, but from my coaching experiences, baseball and other sports are different from football and there just isn’t that level of “hate/rivalry” like football has. So many of these guys have been playing ball together/against one another for so long, camped together etc, they have instead built friendships. Football has similar circumstances, but we are teaching them to be violent between the lines. We ( the fans ) were raised differently and built those allegiances at an early age. Today’s kids are more of a passing “fan” of a school because they have seen them win.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Holman hadn’t played with a lot of the LSwho roster at some time or another along his baseball career leading to this point. Throw in NIL and we have already said before, the Corndogs are A LOT more deeply vested into their baseball program than what BAMA is when it comes to NIL money.