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Post by redbirdman on May 15, 2020 15:49:47 GMT -6
Bowling Green has closed their baseball program per the Toledo Blade do to a need to eliminate 2 million from the budget.
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Post by redbirdman on May 15, 2020 17:11:53 GMT -6
Interesting reading BG blog regarding baseball. Closing the program is said to save a $500,000 a yr. The university got a million donation in 2014 for the baseball program. It was initially said they would put in artificial turf & redo the stadium. The work was never done. Where did the money go? A woman wrote saying she has given the baseball team a funded yearly scholarship in her husband's name she is very upset the school did not tell her they were dropping the sport. It appears she will not donate more to the school. Also it appears baseball supporters would have raised money to keep the sport. This shows me the school has acted hastily & is likely to incur further costs in dropping the sport.Such as donations being returned because the requests were not honored. Let's hope BSU takes that into account before dropping sports which is likely to occur in the next few years.
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Post by lmills72 on May 15, 2020 17:37:41 GMT -6
Also it appears baseball supporters would have raised money to keep the sport. Always a little skeptical when I hear people claim – after the decision already has been made – that they would have given/raised money to keep the sport. Would they really? If there are some BSU fans out there who are worrying about baseball or tennis or golf or whatever, I might suggest that they pony up now. Those "I would have given money to save ____" will ring kind of hollow after the decision has been made. |
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Post by williamtsherman on May 15, 2020 18:56:57 GMT -6
Cutting a half million on baseball is nibbling around the edges. There's a huge elephant in the room gobbling up $10 million at each school every year
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Post by rmcalhoun on May 15, 2020 20:34:31 GMT -6
Cutting a half million on baseball is nibbling around the edges. There's a huge elephant in the room gobbling up $10 million at each school every year Like I've said before Sherm your not wrong but The MAC will continue to have football all the way till the bitter end |
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Post by cardfan on May 15, 2020 20:37:06 GMT -6
And the end will be bitter.
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Post by williamtsherman on May 15, 2020 20:51:48 GMT -6
Cutting a half million on baseball is nibbling around the edges. There's a huge elephant in the room gobbling up $10 million at each school every year Like I've said before Sherm your not wrong but The MAC will continue to have football all the way till the bitter end This could be the bitter end though |
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Post by redbirdman on May 19, 2020 15:16:24 GMT -6
CMU eliminated their track & field program today.
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Post by redbirdman on May 21, 2020 19:10:12 GMT -6
Michigan has introduced a plan to change the NCAA baseball season to run from March to July. This would eliminate a month of southern travel & games for midwest teams. Also means we could play in some warm weather. It appears it has the backing of a number of P5 schools. Also with probabilities lots of minor leagues will be gone maybe fans will come to midwest college games. (Including the selling of beer)
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Post by CallingBS on May 27, 2020 7:49:01 GMT -6
Michigan has introduced a plan to change the NCAA baseball season to run from March to July. This would eliminate a month of southern travel & games for midwest teams. Also means we could play in some warm weather. It appears it has the backing of a number of P5 schools. Also with probabilities lots of minor leagues will be gone maybe fans will come to midwest college games. (Including the selling of beer) It's a smart plan. Southern schools will probably fight it. |
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Post by CallingBS on May 27, 2020 7:51:50 GMT -6
Like I've said before Sherm your not wrong but The MAC will continue to have football all the way till the bitter end This could be the bitter end though This is what is so frustrating. If the MAC schools had good leadership, they would seize the moment and use this opportunity to offload football. Most MAC schools net out at about a $13mm loss on football, but instead they're shaving relative pennies off budgets by cutting inexpensive sports and events. |
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Post by chirpchirpcards on May 27, 2020 14:10:14 GMT -6
This could be the bitter end though This is what is so frustrating. If the MAC schools had good leadership, they would seize the moment and use this opportunity to offload football. Most MAC schools net out at about a $13mm loss on football, but instead they're shaving relative pennies off budgets by cutting inexpensive sports and events. But if they offloaded that $13mm from the balance sheet, how could they possibly siphon off $13mm from the students and state governments!? Football HAS to stay so that athletic departments can keep taking student and tax payer money! |
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Post by 00hmh on May 27, 2020 14:28:01 GMT -6
This is what is so frustrating. If the MAC schools had good leadership, they would seize the moment and use this opportunity to offload football. Most MAC schools net out at about a $13mm loss on football, but instead they're shaving relative pennies off budgets by cutting inexpensive sports and events. But if they offloaded that $13mm from the balance sheet, how could they possibly siphon off $13mm from the students and state governments!? Football HAS to stay so that athletic departments can keep taking student and tax payer money! No taxpayer money in the athletic budget. It is student fee financed, though.
They could still charge student fees, but in fact substantially cut the fees, brag about it, and fund the other sports better...and the debate team or whatever. The amount of student fees going to FB is pretty big.
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Post by chirpchirpcards on May 28, 2020 5:22:36 GMT -6
But if they offloaded that $13mm from the balance sheet, how could they possibly siphon off $13mm from the students and state governments!? Football HAS to stay so that athletic departments can keep taking student and tax payer money! No taxpayer money in the athletic budget. It is student fee financed, though.
They could still charge student fees, but in fact substantially cut the fees, brag about it, and fund the other sports better...and the debate team or whatever. The amount of student fees going to FB is pretty big.
!quicktabs-tab-where_the_money-1 $7.46mm in "Institutional/Government Support", which is coming from the general fund which absolutely has taxpayer money in it. |
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Post by comet on May 28, 2020 7:31:09 GMT -6
Have heard that baseball might go back to two games on Friday and one on Saturday to eliminate the costs of some meals and one overnight stay.
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