Another wiff..
Ole Miss was smart- and went all in on football- directed more resources into the portal, facilities upgrades, top coordinators, NIL for football players- and look at the results.
There’s no debate. Just a known troll doing his thing.
You’re right there’s no debate on your end- just emotional fanboyism. When football season rolls around and we’re not good again, don’t come on here trolling and bitching about “why can’t we compete” or “we need more help in the portal” and all that BS. Don’t ***** about the results when youre for the priorities that got us there. Don’t do your thing.
Ok. What’s your proposal? Cut baseball? You’re not cutting expenses without losing revenue. At most you might save $1MM. Wouldn’t make a bit of difference to our football situation. Our problems there are at least as much incompetence & lack of vision as money. And then we’d suck at all 3 major sports. I’m looking forward to your posts complaining about women’s basketball.
Exactly. It’s a recipe to
FY 2023:
If you did that you would lose support for football too. There’s plenty of people who give to both. Would you want to piss off the multi sport donors?FY 2023:
2.2 million revenue
5.3 expenses
3.1 net deficit
That’s real money that could go straight to football- portal targets, coordinators, facilities, staff ect year after year every year. That’s the difference between 5-7 and 8–4/9–3 or better on consistent basis. Stop trolling and lowballing the savings to protect the passion project.
edited to add- This does not even include the additional 2-3 million saved in NIL.
You’re fear mongering. Multi sport donors already exist and they already give to both right now. Capping baseball NIL or cutting its over spend doesn’t mean “we hate baseball and we’re killing it” or whatever fear mongering you’re eluding too. It means we’re making smart choices with limited dollars so football, the sport that funds EVERYTHING , can actually compete. Most real boosters understand that. The ones who don’t?- then they’re baseball fans first, Mississippi State fans second- Let them keep their baseball only checks. If a donor says “I’m pulling my football money because you capped baseball NIL,” then they were never really giving to Mississippi State- they were giving to their favorite sport. Real multi sport donors, the ones who love Mississippi State, will understand- Fund the engine first. Let football win so there’s more money for EVERYTHING. A better football program = more wins = more revenue = even more donors = more money for every sport, including baseball. People like you and others in this thread is why football stays mediocre, and the whole department is below average at best. It’s backwards thinking.
People like me? You know nothing about me.
Baseball’s around 3 million annual deficit + close to 3 million NIL = close to 6 million tied up every year in a sport that loses money, even when it wins big. Redirect even half of that (3 million) consistently to football every year would without question move the needle. You’re acting like 3 million extra per year is pocket lint. That’s what I mean by people like you- yes you- I may not know you but I know what you’ve been saying here- and you’re just like those who’s already decided the math doesn’t matter because feelings and emotions do.
That makes sense, given the number of scholarships each sport receives, though.
The fact that every one of your hundreds of posts on this topic end with the premise that we could ever compete consistently annually with the likes of Bama, UGa, LSU, Ohio State, etc. lets me know you're not that into being realistic. You just like football better than baseball. Why don't you just say that?
You wrote all that out of emotions without engaging in the actual math.
Throwing frisbees in the woods does sound pretty cool. Maybe we should divert a little money from football to that.
Leach did it, but 9-4 wasn’t good enough so we brought in the heavy hitters Arnett and Lebby
We're all quite aware of the math. You keep saying this like we don't already know it, and have accepted it. So please stop repeating that, it does not help your point.
How long do you think you would keep your job if you decided to pinch the baseball program to give Lebby another $5M to whiff on recruits/transfers/assistant coaches with?
That kind of proves his point. Almost nobody outside of Nebraska knows or cares that they go nuts over volleyball. Are they any good at it? I certainly don't know. Baseball has been used as a salve by MSU for a LONG time. We may suck at the sports that really matter but at least we have baseball. The thing is, our baseball program hasn't been as good as we like to think. We aren't really, and never have been, a top tier program. We are, with the exception of that one season, kind of like Virginia Tech in football. We CARE about it though so that's all that matters.
All you nimrods keep talking about what other people care about. So sad that you are so caught up in the opinions of others. A lot of Mississippians share that gene, though.
Ultimately the athletic department goes as the football program goes. We have people who love baseball but the FACT is there aren't enough of them to carry the athletic department like football does. Also, baseball counts for literally nothing in the conference realignment and TV sweepstakes. That is basically ALL about football. If we get bumped out of the SEC because of football that is going to take that luxury baseball program down several notches as well because it can't pay its own bills.
Actually not many people outside of MSU notice if we win at baseball. We got far more recognition for beating UCONN in women's basketball than we did for winning the CWS. I'm not caught up in the opinions of others, I'm interested in seeing MSU do well across the board, and especially in the two big national sports. The emphasis we place on baseball is a big detriment to that.
Haha, nice try. That's not what I said.
We've sucked in football for 100 years and we're still here. SEC isn't going anywhere and neither are we.
There is “no lower hanging fruit”- Baseball loses more than men’s basketball and almost as much as women’s basketball annually- yet gets it gets comparable or higher NIL than our men’s basketball now. It IS the lowest hanging fruit we have.
