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No it doesn't. It doesn't mean a thing.
We could miss a Regional the next 5 years, but if football wins and we have success, the AD is fine. You reverse that, and football is terrible but we make the postseason in baseball, the AD is canned. This is true at every SEC school, Missisippi State is no exception, as bad as all the nerds on here desperately want that to not be true.
Should make for some electrifying Saturdays at DWS! Showtime!
We have an entire 100 yard field. The only thing it’s missing is a goal post on the one side where the baseball infield is. Is it the nicest in the SEC? Hell no. But it does exist, and it is functional. Its pretty much only used for baseball in January preseason practices, and in the Fall when football outdoor practice is in full swing anyway. There aren’t really any scheduling conflicts.
Football has full reign in Spring practice period when needed, and in Fall Camp when its really hot. But in general, 95% of the practices are outdoors for both sports…..as they should be. Because that’s where just about all the games are played.
They will after they see those new DWS LED Disco Lights when they make their official visits
Now if we can only get a night game. **
Sarcasterisks aside, you bring up a good point. If our suck keeps us at primarily 11 AM and 3 PM kickoffs, investing in LED lights is like pissing into the wind.
We've got too many fans who care way too much about the wrong stuff. Logos and LED lights should be way down the list.
Woah woah
I was with you until you started in on left field loungers
And I’m on the heavier side but I ain’t fat.
The Baseball Mostly portion of the fan base has had a pretty good week with all the talk about hiring an elite coach. Hopefully, Selmon realizes we can’t keep pumping money into baseball like we’re a top-half SEC athletic dept. I wonder how much of the coaching talk is real and how much is agents getting their clients raises/better facilities.
And with the price of eggs, we will make a fortune. There's your NIL money. A true multi use building.
Cohen set MSU athletics back 10 years, he learned well from his mentor.
Wouldn’t we rather use that money to buy athletes? This isn’t 10 years ago when practice facilities could make or break you in recruiting.
10 years ago: "And here is our awesome indoor practice facility!!!" Recruit: "Yeah, this is really nice - I can practice a lot more and don't have to share the space with anyone else, can practice year-round, etc. I may come to Mississippi State!"
2025: "And here is our awesome indoor practice facility!!!" Recruit: "Yeah real nice. How much you paying me?"
Right, be glad. They weren't going give players that much. The Howards can write some of that off on taxes. This group can complain about anything.
Add seats. I stopped giving and moved all my donations to football and basketball because I can never get a seat unless I get there 3 hours early and run in with all my family. I'm not buying seats for everyone at $200 a seat either
This. We aren't poor. We've just had poor leadership
He is right about college baseball. It's a regional minor sport that loses money. Its national profile is lower than women's basketball and softball. It's about on par with college hockey.
Those things don't help in recruiting much now. On the other hand NOT having one, and a dedicated one for football, hurts you in recruiting.
Good. If it works like that we need to remove seats at the baseball stadium, all of them.
This is burning money vs a long term investment. That is needed, money and proper faculties will lure players.
Reading through this post it irritates me the constant need for some to blame baseball for MSU football mediocrity. Football does not make any money on it's own. It's only because we hitched our wagon to the right set of horses and get to share in their success by providing them with a team for slaughter many years ago. 
ing on baseball does absolutely nothing to make football any better.
ing on baseball does absolutely nothing to make football any better.
I’m still mad we didn’t keep the metal bleachers . Think about the players we could get with the money we spent on bowling in the endzone*******
I'm not arguing the profitability of college baseball. I will argue your stupid comment about women's basketball and softball. That's retarded. It might be the most retarded thing you've ever posted, which is quit the statement. Anyway, some of y'all can't seem to stay on point.
Baseball is a big deal at Mississippi State. It was before it was a big deal anywhere else. Now it's a big deal in the SEC. Investing in the baseball program is part of the cost of doing business in the SEC. Are we going to act like an SEC institution or are we just going to fold it up and head to the sunbelt?
The Mississippi State family at large cares about baseball, regardless of what a few fools around here think.
The AD can't fumble the baseball program here. Period, full stop.
And when the Super League happens we will have the nicest baseball facilities in the G5 or whatever the losers are called. Maybe State fans would be happier in a lower conference not having to play super powers week in and week out in football. It will REALLY suck if Ole Miss makes the cut and we don't because our football program wasn't up to snuff and theirs was.
Why do you think this is an either/or situation? I keep seeing this comment and it makes zero sense.
Right now, we are having to overpay to get recruits due to the poor shape our program is in, and having sh!tty facilities doesn't help either. It is impossible to change Starkville overnight, and until we start putting a winning, attractive product on the field this is a step in the right direction. We won 2 games last season and still produced a top 25 recruiting class and good portal class. Looks like we are headed for another top 25 class this year as well.
I don't understand why some of you think the Howard family said "Hey, we'd like to donate $60MM to the football program." /Selmon nervously looks at a NIL balance of $20.71 "uhhh.. ok! how about a practice facility!"
The point is that you have to do both. If Lebby gets us to 15-0 and a natty next year, Selmon still gets fair evaluation and criticism for how he handled baseball. You can't just go all in on football and let everything else go to hell. You have to do it all. That's the cost of doing business in the SEC. Baseball doesn't make money, but it's not the niche sport some think it is, either. It's a big deal in the SEC.
So basically you believe during the conference realignment process, they evaluate the school's... baseball program?
Holy 17 our fans are so stupid
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I get that it's a big deal to State fans. It's not a big deal to the TV networks who will have a say in who makes the cut when the next round of conference realignment happens in 10 years. If you're okay with being left out, then by all means let's funnel finite resources into a non-revenue sport.
Are we an SEC school or not? Do you think Carolina or Kentucky aren't going to invest in baseball?
Stop being a poor ol' State fan.
If this is the attitude here, we're already left out.
Here's the thing. football is the only thing keeping the sports on campus funded. If we don't fix our football program, the rest will die too. To go bat **** crazy spending on any sport other than football is foolishness. But, that's not to say you shouldn't spend on the others, because we're required to maintain x number of programs to even be eligible to be in the SEC. Baseball can break even if it's good. Womens sports can't even break even. WBB lost money during those Vic years and it won't ever be better than that. I love softball, but it's not going to make a dime. Hell, we just started even charging for games. One other thing, if we were to drop from the SEC/P4, MSU becomes Delta State 2.0.