Adding Sports?
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I give reactions to lots of posts. Whiners complain about the dumb ones. Some people happen to deserve a lot of them. This post is no exception.
Even back then football was still generally driving the bus revenue-wise. The pie was just a lot smaller
lol, we made the CWS 30 years before we got rid of baseball. Really any comparison before the arms race really took off in the 90s is invalid. Have you seen the facilities that have been built up across the south? We barely can hang on to build adequate for football, our basketball (and volleyball\wrestling) facilities are woefully out of date and need tens of millions of dollars of investment. We can't afford to be adding another cost on top of that.
Its all of the above
We are a bit ahead on title ix, but that doesn't necessarily mean we can remove a womens sport. And what sport do you think we'd do better at? We probably just have the ones that are cheapest to operate.
You need to have a certain number of sports in each season and i'm guessing golf is cheaper than baseball
Still missing the point..that if we simply quit any sports that we suck at for a 5 year stretch as posted. We would not be participating in any sports.....And the fact that Football makes money was then brought up...but if you go back a couple decades..it wasnt.
Oh, I never said that about only having winning sports. I do believe we have to watch money and focus on FB and MBB sense those are our only money makers.
If we were to add sports, would think a key is facilities both mens/womens teams could leverage.
I would go with women's wrestling and men's soccer.
Would love if we had baseball, but IMO we would have an uphill battle to win. If the NCAA would adjust schedule to make baseball a late spring/summer sport- would be all for adding. At least initially, maybe Clones could use Principal Park.
Found the person who couldn't figure it out. There's always one.
I agree. I am not saying with above posts that we should/shouldn't add Baseball or any other sport for that matter. I was just pointing out that many of the reasons/excuses people use to justify getting rid of or not bringing back, Baseball can be discredited when you compare to other ISU sports.
In the end it all came and comes down to money.
I think bringing Baseball at this point would have a lot of things that would have to be addressed.
- The season would need to be adjusted to more of a summer schedule to allow Northern teams to have more ability to host.
- A large donation to specifically bring baseball back, and build a new facility, Probably a small baseball dome if the season is not adjusted.
- A partnership with Principal Park in DM to host home games. With an adjusted schedule, this would be the most feasible cost wise.
- The need to add the sport for whatever other reason. Need for additional Mens sports. Conference requirement/request etc.
I am not sure baseball would be the first mens sport on the list to add at this point, and I doubt it is the first choice for both men and women.
I think many of us would love to see ISU compete in several more sports. I just don't know if it will ever happen, or if it is beneficial. Money is better spent other places, at least for the foreseeable future.
Just here showing the point you tried to make doesn't make a lot of sense....when you compare it to every other sport at ISU...Unless you can prove otherwise.
Pretty sure we dropped baseball because of money. All other excuses are just excuses.
I have notifications full of the same from you...just now I will do the same to you 5 fold. So be it.
I'm responding to your posts individually, and they are continually confidently wrong- the definition of 'dumb'.
You're going back through my post history and dumbing every post because you're a giant baby about a reaction.
Pretty big difference there.
Definitely remembering why you were on the ignore list.
Really did you actually read the one where I agreed that baseball wasnt coming back.....Nah didnt think so.
He really does not seem to like your takes on The Last of Us show.
Lol, triggered much?
Instead of spending money on adding sports ISU needs to keep putting money into the sports we have.
I have said this over and over. Very few cared about ISU baseball until it went away. Even if you bring it back ISU will never compete in this conference. Good players want to go south to play. Even the good softball players from this state go south to play.
I have said this over and over. Very few cared about ISU baseball until it went away. Even if you bring it back ISU will never compete in this conference. Good players want to go south to play. Even the good softball players from this state go south to play.
He should see how many times I died in the game. Then he'd have valid reasons for that dumb button
The baseball/softball schedule is perfect for the NCAA, they are not going to adjust that. They get their World Series at the perfect time on the calendar. There is no way Principal Park would be used at a home field for ISU. They don't want that field tore up before the Tripple A season even starts.
Yeah, this is basically it.
I mean, look at where we are financially now. Hilton is probably $50mil behind in improvements that need done. The concourse improvements that were already announced and delayed are one item of course, but then you have the video boards that are a decade past their expiration date, lighting and sound that are pretty poor, etc. And then you go down the list, for example if we had the resources we'd probably be looking at stuff for wrestling\volleyball for more dedicated venues.