Quote Originally Posted by CaptainObvious View Post
So you skipped right over the part where I mentioned you could spend $15 million extra on Football and still be in the bottom 1/3 of the conference. You did not see me say "don't spend on football". So sure. You baseball is a niche (whatever that is in the sports world) sport guys can wave your magic wand and poof, all athletics spending goes to football and we will STILL go 5-7 to 8-4 tops in this conference and still have some 4-8 years sprinkled in. If Football is your main and only focus, Tuscaloosa is about 85 miles >>> that way! Most of us would whether have a more well rounded athletics program and target the areas State can be more successful! Historically, that has been Baseball, Tennis and Women's Golf. Of those 3 I'd rather spend on Baseball.

But if you go back to my point, I actually gave more expenditures to Basketball.

Football 105 Scholarships -$15 million extra to go 5-7 or 8-4 and making a bowl game 3 out of every 4 to 5 years.
Basketball 15 scholarships -$5 million extra to go to NCAA 3 out of every 5 years and the NIT or CBI the other 2.
Baseball 35 scholarships - $4 million extra to go to a Regional EVERY Year, Host a regional 3 out of every 5 years, make it to Omaha 3 to 4 times per 10 years.
You'd be wrong about that part too. Add $15MM to the about $10 MM we spend in NIL and you're at $25MM. That gets you serious talent. OM didn't touch that number and got good talent. Plus, you cannot build your athletics around baseball. We aren't throwing a bunch of extra money at baseball, this buyout was cheap and we've always had the money on that side. Just a bunch of dumb 17s defending mediocrity in baseball to protect fat boy access.