Baseball, football, softball, basketball in that order
Baseball. The only season tickets I've ever had. Except this year. :-(
Huge basketball guy, here. I am kicking myself for not appreciating football when I was here. As for baseball, I never really liked it until I was living in Chicago and went to Wrigley. Still don't care for it much, but I'll be out there on opening day.
Basketball for me but I think most of you know that. Reason for this choice not is simply because I enjoy the sport due to It's non stop action. Reason I support this most is because it is the one sport with the potential to bring us the most recognition. Due to the weather issue, the diamond sports are not covered nationally no matter what you accomplish. With so many minor bowl games today, getting into one is not a big deal. Basketball on the other hand brings your school recognition on CBS if you are mentioned on Selection Sunday and that notice goes up exponentially if you pull one upset. I will be the first to admit we have not taken advantage of that potential in recent years. It is still there for the taking however.
Basketball >> football >>> baseball
I thoroughly enjoyed myself at baseball games last year and this is my second year of baseball season tickets but basketball to me is night and day better
I have season tickets for three sports. But if I had to rank them it would be:
1A - Football
1B - Baseball
3 - Basketball
I am a baseball first guy. They say you always remember the first girl you fall in love with, for me it was baseball. That being said basketball is a very close second and softball a close third. Football is a very distant 4th and maybe even 5th. For many reason this fall I decided I was not going to get invested in football anymore. It is now a social event for me, I see my friends, drink a few beers and maybe a few more bourbons. Winning or losing takes does not excite me one way or the other. I hope we have a winning team and I will go to a bowl, but I would rather see a NCAA Sweet 16/Final Four, WCWS or WS wins for our teams. Those are sports we have a more realistic shot at a national championship. We will never see, in my lifetime, a mid-major football team in the football playoff. The big boys will not allow it.
I agree 100% that the sport at this school that benefits our brand the most is basketball. Hence my crusade on the scheduling problem. While my favorite sport is baseball, I'd love us to dump the amount of money into basketball they we've seemingly dumped into football.
I'm enjoying all the comments about the different sport crowds. Very interesting.
Btw, doesn't the baseball crowd have the reputation of being the more "cerebral" crowd?
I kid.
something to think about could be the level of the sport itself....for example NFL football then NCAA, MLB then college baseball (if not AAA, AA, etc then college- but that would be a different thread), then NBA then NCAA hoops. for this reason I would lean towards Softball as NCAA softball is arguably already at the top rank of its sport. (unless Olympics gets reinstated but then that is only every four years)
Professionally, it's whatever sport is in season.
Personally, it's baseball, basketball then football
Softball has become completely unwatchable for me.
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