apollo wrote:It's the Journey... wrote:apollo wrote:
If they have to cut scholarships from another sport to fully fund baseball, then they should do it. The goal of the department should be to win MAC Championships...baseball has proven it can do that.
And that thinking is the problem. Let's not increase the department as a whole when we can simply rob Peter to pay Paul. What have the athletes in the sports you would cut scholarships done to deserve a decrease?
What did the baseball program do to deserve getting 3 scholarships cut after winning BACK TO BACK CONFERENCE TITLES in 2008 and 2009? You can make all the excuses you want...what Christopher did to that program was borderline criminal.
They did not do anything to deserve the reductions, and I have never said they did. I am a firm believer that if you are going to field a team, do it 100%. You are combining two issues I see as separate. Issue 1: Baseball should be designated all scholarships permitted. Issue 2: Scholarships should not be taken from a sport just to be given to another sport.
It goes back to our need to find new revenue streams. We do well with giving from our high donors. We do a terrible job with our average fans because the department treats them like crap. There is a large base of average fans that will give if they are treated with respect and given a good, not even great, game day experience. Improve things like quality of food, traffic flow in AND OUT of games, common sense facility rules and enforcement and you can expand what should be our largest support base. They may not all join Falcon Club but they will buy more tickets, attend more events, and maybe start talking to their friends about taking in a game with them. We should be looking at things like reducing the price of tickets for some sports if it leads to more butts in the seats and an overall increase in revenue. We should be looking at the price of parking, cost of concessions, wifi/internet capabilities in all of our facilities. We should be looking at charging for all of our sports with individual and season ticket options to increase revenue. People will pay for a quality product and what baseball, gymnastics, soccer, track, etc. is putting out there is a higher quality product than some of our "revenue" sports. We need to make sure our facilities are being used for as many events as possible, even if they are non-athletic, to bring in additional revenue. There is so much we can and should be doing. I just don't understand why we cannot break free of "business as usual".....
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