Let's Build some Baseball condos

[Pancho]

You can't talk sense with fools. These baseball only whackos can't look and see USM and realize that's what they want.

sounds like we are good with selmon then and not someone as yourself

[confucius say]

I'm all for us getting BOC and being really good at baseball, but football should always be the main focus at every university in this conference. It's weird that it even has to be said to this fanbase. Not a little bit weird. Like extremely weird. Football HAS to be fixed or we are going to end up in the Sunbelt. That's not fear mongering. If you want to enjoy your palace of a baseball stadium with home series every week against Arkansas State and USM, then continue to treat football like it's baseball's little brother and see where that gets us. We could win the baseball national championship 100 years in a row and if football is going 2-10 every year we are going to get relegated eventually. Even if you don't give a sh*t about football, you better treat it right or it will take everything else down with it.

It already is. We spend way more on football than everything else. And 75% of our rev share is going to football. Maybe more.

[MoreCowbell]

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.

Unfortunately for us, what costs AL, UGA, LSU, OM 100, costs us 150. Not only do we have less money but we also have to overpay if we want the same thing and even doing that does not work most of the time. The uphill battle we face with NIL is much steeper than many want to believe.

Just to be clear, I am not a give it all to other sports poster but we have to be realistic. We are what we are in football and unfortunately that will not change. We need to spend on football the minimum amount it takes to keep fan interest and to turn a profit. Football will never be a source of true competitiveness for fans so we should do only what is necessary to remain necessary to the SEC.

Basketball and Baseball are the only sports where we as fans have a chance to feel hopeful and actually be competitive and achieve something.

So I would spend on football only what is necessary to maintain any form of respectability and then the rest on Basketball and Baseball because as a fan I would rather have a chance at something special in 2 sports and have 2 sports seasons to look forward to than have no hope of accomplishing anything across the board.

[Jarius]

It already is. We spend way more on football than everything else. And 75% of our rev share is going to football. Maybe more.

I’m not saying we aren’t doing what we should be doing as far as money to football from the school. I’m saying the people that want to just forget about it (fans) and focus on things we have a higher chance to compete in are not thinking logically.

[MoreCowbell]

I?m not saying we aren?t doing what we should be doing as far as money to football from the school. I?m saying the people that want to just forget about it (fans) and focus on things we have a higher chance to compete in are not thinking logically.

I argue that allocating extra resources towards the sports we have a chance in is logical. Football is going to turn a profit and be the engine regardless. You spend on football what you need to but must be realistic in that we really have no chance to achieve anything special in that sport. If football is a car just buy a decent reliable one without all the extras because it will make no difference next to the Bugatti and Lambo.

[Jarius]

I argue that allocating extra resources towards the sports we have a chance in is logical. Football is going to turn a profit and be the engine regardless. You spend on football what you need to but must be realistic in that we really have no chance to achieve anything special in that sport. If football is a car just buy a decent reliable one without all the extras because it will make no difference next to the Bugatti and Lambo.

The problem with this is that we have to go above and beyond with our budget and football just to be an old reliable car. If we cut corners at all there we will go 3-9 every year. Selmon is not doing some small things correct but he is the best fundraiser we have ever had and that is helping us majorly with football (and all sports) right now. He (and us) really need Lebby to be a decent head coach. Cohen was awful at a large part of his job but hiring someone like Leach that can do more with less is how we have to manage football and that is the box we have to be thinking in for that sport IMO.

[cheewgumm]

I think last years football results really skewed reality for people on football as it coincided with NIL getting going so the perception that NIL turned us into a 3-9 team.

I don?t see it that way.

Crappy recruiting and getting past Leach?s style did that.

We will probably win 6 this year.

The thinking that we have to spend every penny just to get to 5 wins is incorrect IMO.

Also, if you want to be great in baseball it doesn?t mean you are saying abandon football.

[SpaceBully]

Build the new one at least 10 stories or taller!

[TheLostDawg]

Or let's expand regular seats, sell them at cost as all the people with discounted seats right now, they are going to be looking for seats when the true value comes out in a few years (they're steal of a cost is gone and they can't keep ripping people off each game they don't go to)