So if it was a money loser, Bruce did the right thing in dropping the sport- correct?
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So if it was a money loser, Bruce did the right thing in dropping the sport- correct?
I forget how much money it cost the university to have a baseball team but I thought it was 500,000+ with no revenue coming in. With being in the north the team was on the road for the first half of the season. With fuel cost now could you imagine how much that would cost? The only way Iowa State adds a sport in general is if a T Boone of the north comes along.
If there is no ticket charge its not a suprise the baseball lost money. Financially the only way an institution can get away with free entry is to allow alcohol sales at the game. While in louisville for the basketball game we went to louisville baseball game. L'ville had no price to enter the game but they had to make a lot on concessions. $1 beers night brings out the crowd.
if it was about losing money, then we wouldn't have any girls sports.
The only way Iowa State adds sports is if we get our own T. Boone Pickens. I believe that we are more than compliant with Title IX based on stuff Pollard has said, so I think that with enough donor money the AD wouldn't have any problem with bringing baseball back or adding Hockey. The donors would just have to totally endow the program.
Do we get a thread every 3 months on this?
If its a title IX problem then why does every other northern school in the area have a baseball program? Take a look: minnesota, both michigan schools, illinois, south and north dakota state, nebraska, missouri, kansas. What are those schools doing that isu is not?
You do realize there is a difference between men's and women's sports when it comes to money? If it was about money we would have two teams.Quote:
Originally Posted by thatguy
ISU never finished about 8th place in the Big 12, also you can play on the first two months of the season being played on the road because of weather. That's where alot the expense is in college baseball for northern schools.
If you look at the Big 12 schedule, you only play each team in one three game series a year, and they are either home or away, so you may not even see the best team in the conference on a yearly basis.
College Hockey > College Baseball
After watching several NCAA Hockey Tournament games this weekend, it makes me really wish ISU had a NCAA hockey team. However, I know that it is unlikely.
MAKE IT STOP!
Neither hockey nor baseball are going to be a varsity sport while JP is around (and I hope he's around for a long time). JP's stated goals are making the existing sports as competitive as possible, especially the money-making sports of football and men's and women's basketball (debatable on the last one, but at least their improvements are piggybacking off of men's improvements).
"Serious" discussions for adding hockey or baseball, as long as JP is the AD, won't happen until ISU is at least in the position of being able to build competitive facilities for those programs. And as long as the South Endzone expansion at Jack Trice Stadium and the renovation of Hilton Coliseum are on the docket (and we can't even seem to raise the funds to do either of those at the moment), neither a baseball stadium nor a hockey arena are going to be discussed, unless a major donor comes forward like someone did for the softball/soccer/track facility. And in the case of either baseball or hockey, not only will they have to fund the facility but they'll also have to fund the entire program for the time being.
You haven't been paying attention - it's not a Title IX problem. It is 100% a financial problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by heater
Is the problem in the start-up costs or the yearly running costs?