Guessing he stays, Milan being the best non scholarship 6th man in the country has a nice ring to it.
I know, I know, but seriously… Bring Back Baseball
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Guessing he stays, Milan being the best non scholarship 6th man in the country has a nice ring to it.
Why? Those are impossible goals according to the logic most of our fans employ in this thread. We simply don’t have the resources to compete at that level. We didn’t before realignment and we surely don’t now.
Mocks the idea of having too many bean counters, then proceeds to count beans. LOL
Not really. One game away in 2000 and with JJ healthy we probably would've had a game with Michigan. We were one game away from the CFP in 2020 and 2024. Impossible? No. Difficult but somewhat more realistic than a Baseball team? Yes. And don't get me wrong, I would love a baseball team, even if it sucked. But it simply is not realistic at this point in time.
I legitimately don’t understand what the appeal of a baseball team at Iowa State would be. The college regular season runs from February to end May. It’s not even like you would be able to enjoy any home games. Maybe 2-3 weeks of solid warm weather.
What benefit would it give to anyone?
What benefit would it give to anyone?
“I’m posting an idea I know full well is unrealistic, and everyone who disagrees with me is an idiot!”
At least the persuasion and people skills are there.
At least the persuasion and people skills are there.
Kind of the opposite of what’s going on here. I posted an idea so realistic that the vast majority of D1 schools are able to do it, and then proceeded to hear everybody tell me how it’s unrealistic and I’m an idiot.
Because these 4 or 5 fools that keep bringing it up picture nice summer days in the bleachers with a beer. They forget or don’t realize the reality of ISU baseball was 38 degrees, cloudy, probably rainy and had no beer to ease the beat down our team usually took. And because of that, no one went. And this was in the ‘90s, when I went to ISU and baseball actually was more popular than it is today.
We are also only 4 years into both NIL and the sit out transfer rule being waived. So in the next 10 years is it more likely that ISU, Colorado, Wisconsin, SMU, or Syracuse adds baseball or that others join us? When baseball loses millions per year it would be hard not to envy an ISU program that has really gotten a lot of bang for its NIL buck in onfield results in the sports that fill up arenas & stadiums. Like if you're a Boston College fan wouldn't you be asking why are we blowing resources on a perennial sub-.500 baseball program when we havent made the big dance since 2009?
Weather won't matter after ISU builds a state of the art indoor baseball arena. The new arena would draw fans to the games and would attract world class recruits. ISU's proximity to Omaha would make the transportation costs for their annual trip to the College Baseball World Series very reasonable. Be positive and think BIG!
The only future add/drop confirmed at the moment is Tennessee State bringing baseball back after 30 years. Somebody forgot to tell them that they’re just some poor HBCU.
Yep. If you want to watch some baseball in central Iowa on a nice weather day, the Iowa Cubs are right there and they've got plenty of empty seats for most games (they averaged about 50% of capacity last season). And even the icubs often struggle to get more than a couple thousand there during the colder months despite having much more population to pull from and more established history here in central iowa.
Give it a break, it is deader than the women's gymnastic program.
I'm going to wake up tomorrow and thank my lucky stars that OP is not our athletic director.
Don’t forget to send a thank you email to Jamie for being the greatest thing to ever happen to ISU!
JP isn’t above criticism but bringing baseball back would be AD malpractice. Most Midwest AD’s would shed baseball if they could get away with it.
