I know, I know, but seriously… Bring Back Baseball
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It has a ton to do with Pollard. He’s got our whole damn fan base thinking about our program from an accountant’s point of view and looking down their nose at anybody whose first question isn’t “how are we going to pay for that?”
I mean not bankrupting the university feels like an ok philosophy to me.
My soon to be 16 year old told me he wanted a BMW.
It’s fine to dream big but how are we going to pay for that is the ONLY relevant question when people say lunatic things.
That's the first and only question of anything when you're talking about a program that is already running at a deficit and struggling to keep up with our peers in the revenue sports, much less adding another program that will lose money.
Even if a donor could somehow pop into existence for something like baseball, pollard would be much better off spending every bit of effort to try to convince that donor to give that money towards basketball or football instead.
Yes, wanting a Division 1 school to have a baseball team is the same as a 16 year old asking for a brand new BMW. Good call.
Its called reality.
You haven't actually refuted the extremely valid arguments against it, you just expect if people "think bigger" somehow it'll be workable. It won't. Not to mention, again, that even if we could magically find that kind of money, it would be an idiotic decision to put that money into baseball. There isn't the demand for it, and no one attended games when we did have it. That money would be better spent on helping football as our biggest revenue raiser, or basketball where TJ could realistically make a final 4 or more if he was given those kinds of funds.
Win powerball, help our existing sports close the gap in facilities and NIL funding so those can be competitive, and then, after all that can we maybe consider baseball.
Actually the BMW is more realistic, and I drive a 2011 Toyota Highlander.
No one was hyped about ISU baseball when we did have a team. Seriously what was our average attendance the last 10 years?
Oh please, I am so done with arguments that it’s impossible to do at ISU what is somehow possible at hundreds of other universities. Why are we all so convinced that ISU’s position is so uniquely bad?
Wait... he's NOT supposed to look at it like an accountant? He's supposed to say to himself "damn whether we can actually afford any of this - it's more important to be a school of dreamers, and we'll pay for all these dreams with unicorn farts and rainbows..."
The way you wish JP would operate ISU athletics would put us in a crippling debt we'd never be able to pay off and ISU athletics would be rendered into a darkness that is even darker than the 1950s-1970s. Hell - JP is already practically operating the AD in the red, but your wish is for him to operate it in a red that's redder than blood.
Because it IS bad. You just think JP is satan incarnate instead of actually listening to what he has to say.
These threads are so damn dumb. Should be auto ban for even bringing it up.
There’s a difference between listening to what he says as his perspective and listening to what he says like it’s the laws of physics or something.
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