I will comment on both concepts touched in this thread.
Club Baseball-My son played for the Club Baseball team for 4 years at University of Illinois-Champaign, having just gradutated last year. It was a great experience for him, met some great friends, and had a great time (both on the field and socialziing off the court-what happens in Tampa on the spring break trip stayed in Tampa). They played at a pretty high level (won the conference all 4 years he played and qauliified for the NCBA World Series several times). Assuming ISU has a similar program, I would recommend it to anybody with a love of baseball and a skill set to match.
As far as varsity baseball team at ISU, they still had a team when I attended. And it was very poorly supported. I attended several games. There was no admission charge but still less than about 100 people in attendance. Then given the time of year the games were played, it was typically too cold to really enjoy. If the ISU students won't go sit inside to watch a top 10 basketball team, no way they will sit outside and freeze their tails off watching a bottom 10 team. So from a practical standpoint, it is not a sport that would make sense for ISU to support a varsity team. Quality players head farther south to play where they can get outside before the middle of Apri so it would be nearly impossible to field so team to complete with the Texas and Oklamoma schools. So while love Cyclones sports, it we we can't be competittive year in and year out, focus on the sports we can.