It would be good for concerts but realistically close off the 3rd level for all but the biggest BB games. Student section usually leaves their part of the balcony open for all but the biggest games.
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It would be good for concerts but realistically close off the 3rd level for all but the biggest BB games. Student section usually leaves their part of the balcony open for all but the biggest games.
I see your logic. So it’s also impossible to be competitive with the warm weather schools in softball then, right? Or track?
Softball practices in Bergstrom. The field dimensions fit. Track has an indoor facility (Lied).
There's no indoor place for baseball to do anything beyond batting cages and infield, and it would be necessary for ISU to be dinking around indoors while most of the conference could be outside having a full go.
When will people give up on having a baseball team? They sucked when we had one. Put that money to something where we can be successful. Or at least competitive.
Nothing is impossible. Less likely? Absolutely. And for a sport that generates low\no revenue it isn't worth the expenditure for either. If not for title IX, it would have also likely been dropped.
You're trying to claim a 'gotcha' with the recent relative success of our current team, but its more the exception that proves the rule. Before 2021 ISU hadn't made the tournament since the 80s.
9th-11th place in the Big 12 baseball standings...
1997: KSU, NU, ISU
1998: ISU, KSU, KU
1999: KSU, KU, ISU
2000: KU, ISU, KSU
2001: KSU, MU, KU (ISU was 8th)
Stevie Wonder could see the pattern.
1997: KSU, NU, ISU
1998: ISU, KSU, KU
1999: KSU, KU, ISU
2000: KU, ISU, KSU
2001: KSU, MU, KU (ISU was 8th)
Stevie Wonder could see the pattern.
Oh. How about tennis, then? Ranked what now?
Because that seems like an awful lot of competitive teams, considering we’re not “supposed” to be.
Seems more like we’re capable of finding ways to overcome our disadvantages.
Oooh oooh....Now do Football from about 1980-2000.
If you like patterns of suck as a reason to not have a sport at ISU...we would not have any sports at ISU.
We could be competitive, but only 10 people would know because that is all that would show up to the games.
In 17/18, last report in a quick search I found. There were 6 D1 bowling teams. We could be top 10.
When baseball starts delivering tv contracts that deliver tens of millions of dollars a year in extra money for ISU, we can discuss it. We only really have most of the others to meet NCAA minimum sport requirements (6 mens sports) and to meet title IX
You really dumb a lot of posts....and not just mine. You love that dumb button.
So you are saying ISU was bringing is extra Millions of dollars during the 80s? From a Media contract? When we got on tv maybe a couple times a year..if we were lucky? And those were usually away?
Sure we are now...but during the 80s and 90s that was not the case, when my point would have been an issue.
Hell go back to the 1920s-40s or pick almost ISUs entire history, and I think you can find a lot of years of suck, when football was not making money, like now.
But Ok, I was making a point that if you go by trends of teams sucking you can pick a lot of sports...if not ALL sports at ISU that have a range of years, if not most of the entire history of the sport where ISU has been bad, to terrible. And we still host those.
I dont think we should start dropping sports simply because we have a group of 5 years that we were bad. Hell not a group of 10 or 20 years even, because like I said there would not be many if any sports left at ISU.
Tell me you understand this, and not that dense to understand what I was actually trying to point out.
Whether that means we should bring Baseball back or not is not the point, but saying we were bad is also not the point. Instead of bringing in a new coach we just quit, because we were bad? Is that really your point? Hell our baseball history is better than a lot of sports. At least we have several outright conference championships in Baseball. Not true in a lot of sports. And even made the CWS, tell me other sports that have done as well?
So if it is about being bad, or if it is about being in the north with south teams, and cant compete, and a team that is bad and doesnt bring in $$$$. Explain this, we still have a team:
And before you say title 9....we are ahead on title 9 and have been since baseball...why not drop softball and pick up another sport we have a better chance at competing in, if that is what its all about.
| Year | Head Coach | Overall Record | Conference Record | Conference Standing | Postseason |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Ruth Crowe | 17–24 | 1–13 | 10th | – |
| 1998 | Ruth Crowe | 16–27 | 5–11 | 8th | – |
| 1999 | Ruth Crowe | 23–30 | 5–11 | T-9th | – |
| 2000 | Ruth Crowe | 18–29 | 4–14 | 10th | – |
| 2001 | Ruth Crowe | 14–27 | 2–12 | 10th | – |
| 2002 | Ruth Crowe | 19–25 | 6–12 | 8th | – |
| 2003 | Ruth Crowe | 19–28 | 6–12 | 7th | – |
| 2004 | Ruth Crowe | 13–31 | 3–13 | 9th | – |
| 2005 | Ruth Crowe | 18–32 | 3–15 | T-9th | – |
| 2006 | Stacy Gemeinhardt-Cesler | 23–28 | 5–13 | T-8th | – |
| 2007 | Stacy Gemeinhardt-Cesler | 24–40 | 3–15 | T-9th | – |
| 2008 | Stacy Gemeinhardt-Cesler | 29-29 | 4–14 | T-9th | – |
| 2009 | Stacy Gemeinhardt-Cesler | 26–29 | 7–11 | 8th | – |
| 2010 | Stacy Gemeinhardt-Cesler | 26–29 | 4–14 | 9th | – |
| 2011 | Stacy Gemeinhardt-Cesler | 21–28 | 3–15 | 8th | – |
| 2012 | Stacy Gemeinhardt-Cesler | 14–39 | 2–22 | 8th | – |
maybe mens golf is raking in the cash in contracts too....
TLDR; you missed my point so badly that it led to whatever you were blathering about in the post I mercifully snipped.