Quote Originally Posted by Todd4State View Post
Funny thing about the baseball boosters- most of them donate to guess what? Football. And a lot of the baseball boosters played baseball at MSU or were part of the program. Why would anyone be surprised that they would want the baseball program to be well funded and successful?

Now Selmon is a football guy. He played football in college. His Dad is in the Pro Football HOF. And we have fans that think he doesn't understand how important football is?

What baseball didn't do is say back in 2023 that we had to hire Zach Arnett to keep the high school class together.

Baseball didn't say that NIL was a fad.

Baseball didn't say that we had to hire coaches like Chad Bumphis and David Turner and that they just HAD to be on staff.

The problem is we have too many fans that think that the issue is if we don't fund baseball it will fix football somehow. And that is classic MSU fans. Let's cut off our nose to spite our face and then we suddenly have nothing and we wonder where it went wrong and blame Mark Keenum for it.

MSU baseball is successful because it doesn't cut corners. Which is exactly what Ole Miss football has done under Kiffin by the way. MSU baseball doesn't say that we have to be like Cal State Fullerton and we have to have a coach that does things a little bit differently. MSU baseball doesn't complain because football gets the lion's share of the money either.

The solution for MSU football is to stop cutting corners.
The problem is our entire fanbase treating football like a second hand sport and baseball like the king.

"Baseball" didn't take NIL seriously- The baseball boosters took NIL seriously. The same baseball boosters that you claim also give to football. They might give to both now but it certainly didn't start that way. It's because first priority in their minds go to a sport that on the larger scale does not matter. College hockey generates 2 times more revenue than college baseball. Imagine what your thoughts would be if Michigan prioritzed their hockey program and put football on the back burner, We and the rest of the country would think they are pretty foolish. Ole Miss football probably generated more money for the university in the last 2 weeks than baseball has generated for ours in the last 2 decades.