Pour in to baseball

I?m not as down on this recruiting cycle as many of you are. I think it?s our best class in several years. Lebby is doing a good job. BUT, having said that Im cool with being a baseball school. It wouldn?t bother me to see us throw some of the money we throw into football into the baseball program. Become the example of how to use nil and other monies for baseball. We aren?t gonna do it but I?m just saying it wouldn?t bother me. Us being a baseball power is more important to me than being a 7-8 won football program. Just my opinion of course.

If we dont make an attempt to win in football then theres a good chance we will be left out if there is any more conference restructuring. So if you like your weekend series against LSU, Arky, Tenn, Tex etc then we better make an attempt. Otherwise those weekend series will turn into matchups against MdTN, Tulane, USM, Rice, North Texas

Disagree on the recruiting class being best in several years. It's not a terrible class though. But are you saying pour money into the baseball portal? I think we may have the stomach for baseball spending but the talent is harder to project at the HS level.

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Originally Posted by msugolf

If we dont make an attempt to win in football then theres a good chance we will be left out if there is any more conference restructuring. So if you like your weekend series against LSU, Arky, Tenn, Tex etc then we better make an attempt. Otherwise those weekend series will turn into matchups against MdTN, Tulane, USM, Rice, North Texas

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Maybe it's where we belong for football. Just thinking realistically. But that money, can't lose it or we'd have to shut half the school down.

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Originally Posted by msugolf

If we dont make an attempt to win in football then theres a good chance we will be left out if there is any more conference restructuring. So if you like your weekend series against LSU, Arky, Tenn, Tex etc then we better make an attempt. Otherwise those weekend series will turn into matchups against MdTN, Tulane, USM, Rice, North Texas

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THIS!! 100%

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Originally Posted by preachermatt83

I?m not as down on this recruiting cycle as many of you are. I think it?s our best class in several years. Lebby is doing a good job. BUT, having said that Im cool with being a baseball school. It wouldn?t bother me to see us throw some of the money we throw into football into the baseball program. Become the example of how to use nil and other monies for baseball. We aren?t gonna do it but I?m just saying it wouldn?t bother me. Us being a baseball power is more important to me than being a 7-8 won football program. Just my opinion of course.

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Gonna love those away games in Ruston, Jacksonville Al, Birmingham etc.

You want to be USM then

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Originally Posted by Cooterpoot

You want to be USM then

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Nah, we will still get that SEC TV money. He's just saying invest in the other programs. I don't totally disagree. Be elite in MBB and CBB. At least until there are some sort of guardrails put in place for football.

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Originally Posted by msugolf

If we dont make an attempt to win in football then theres a good chance we will be left out if there is any more conference restructuring. So if you like your weekend series against LSU, Arky, Tenn, Tex etc then we better make an attempt. Otherwise those weekend series will turn into matchups against MdTN, Tulane, USM, Rice, North Texas

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We cannot be thrown out of the SEC just for sucking in football- why you think Vandy has remained all these years? There are by-laws and we are an original member.

The only way we get thrown to the Tulane's and ULL's of the world is if they disband the SEC and form some type of new superconference

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Originally Posted by HoopsDawg

Nah, we will still get that SEC TV money. He's just saying invest in the other programs. I don't totally disagree. Be elite in MBB and CBB. At least until there are some sort of guardrails put in place for football.

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We won't get that money if we aren't in the future of P4 football

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We cannot be thrown out of the SEC just for sucking in football- why you think Vandy has remained all these years? There are by-laws and we are an original member.

The only way we get thrown to the Tulane's and ULL's of the world is if they disband the SEC and form some type of new superconference

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If the SEC splits and a league formed, all that's out there is window.

My Lord we really are going to commit sports suicide, aren't we?

#I'veneverevenbeentothedude

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Originally Posted by Coach34

We cannot be thrown out of the SEC just for sucking in football- why you think Vandy has remained all these years? There are by-laws and we are an original member.

The only way we get thrown to the Tulane's and ULL's of the world is if they disband the SEC and form some type of new superconference

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Wouldn't even happen then. They wouldn't form a 'Super League' to crown a national champion every year who had more than 3 or 4 losses and that's exactly what would happen if you got rid of the middlin to lower level teams in big conferences. Fodder will ALWAYS be required.

We just won the SEC in soccer so we don't we divert football money to that?****
If we are going to emphasize a sport in addition to football it needs to be basketball but we'll probably never do that.

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Wouldn't even happen then. They wouldn't form a 'Super League' to crown a national champion every year who had more than 3 or 4 losses because that's exactly what would happen if you got rid of the middlin to lower level teams in big conferences. Fodder will ALWAYS be required.

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TV money drives it all now, it?s all driven by eye on screens and advertising revenue. They will sell it as more great teams able to play each other rather than the run of the mill conference games. It will happen and it is just a matter of when.

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Originally Posted by Coursesuper

TV money drives it all now, it?s all driven by eye on screens and advertising revenue. They will sell it as more great teams able to play each other rather than the run of the mill conference games. It will happen and it is just a matter of when.

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What's going to draw more eyes, 6-3 Bama at 5-4 Ohio State or 8-1 Bama because MSU and UK were on their schedule instead of UT and UGA at 7-2 Ohio State because Michigan State and Purdue were on their schedule instead of Oregon and Wisconsin?

My annual reminder that more people watched us play Tulsa in the Armed Forces bowl than watched us win a National Championship in baseball. Yes, really.

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What's going to draw more eyes, 6-3 Bama at 5-4 Ohio State or 8-1 Bama because MSU and UK were on their schedule instead of UT and UGA at 7-2 Ohio State because Michigan State and Purdue were on their schedule instead of Oregon and Wisconsin?

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Fine, you don?t have to hear what I?m talking about, but that?s the way things are going to shake out. Continue your work on the entitled premise that we will always be there. That?s the way most of this state thinks anyway. It?s working out fantastically so far.

Maybe we can invent a new sport and be king. At least until others pour money into it.

My stance has always been football should get more support than it is getting and baseball should get the current support it is getting right now.

Baseball is where it needs to be.

Football needs to catch up to where it needs to be badly.