We are not Alabama. But we could be better than we are thats for sure- and consistently better if we stopped treating football like a side dish and baseball like the main course. One reason Alabama is Alabama is because they never overfunded a money losing side sport at the expense of football. They pour resources into football first, relentlessly, because they know it’s the revenue engine for literally everything. Of course we don’t have Alabama’s resources and years of momentum- That’s exactly why we can’t afford to keep bleeding millions a year on baseball- plus millions more in NIL, while football, the one program that actually generates revenue, gets shortchanged and stays mediocre at best. Throwing baseball money at football would most certainly move the needle. Maybe not overnight, but year after year it would no question.
There wuold be more NIL for football players which would be better portal talent- Better facilities- Better staff assistants coaches ect. More wins and more wins over time means more TV money, more donors, more ticket sales, more momentum- which lifts every sport, including your little baseball team and all the women’s BS and everything else at the school. This has been our overall problem for many years.
