How many of you identify as "the baseball crowd"?

[CajunEXPRESS]

IMO his best stretch of coaching. Becoming good against a gale headwind

[CajunEXPRESS]

Amazing baseball and softball picking up momentum vs MBB.

[31Ragin97]

How about a new poll, if someone could add the voting gadgets that would be great......are posters on ragin pagin happiest when: a. Cajuns win b. cajuns lose but their take was right c. They get to tell someone else their take is wrong d. Power five cheats and gets away with it

[Ragin4U]

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.

Great point. I am guessing our ROI would be higher with basketball, right?

[VObserver]

Great point. I am guessing our ROI would be higher with basketball, right?

Not with Marlin coaching.

[Ragin4U]

Not with Marlin coaching.

Wow. Was not expecting that response from you at all.

[Just1More]

Wow. Was not expecting that response from you at all.

You're getting equally predictable 4U. Just sayin...

[Turbine]

Not with Marlin coaching.

Are you saying, no amount of recruiting budget, would help?

[VObserver]

Are you saying, no amount of recruiting budget, would help?

Not unless Marlin changes his staff to add someone who can recruit higher profile players and someone who can coach the offense; along with changing his philosophy to put a higher priority on winning regular season games, and on bringing opponents to the dome who will help our RPI and interest our fans.

I don't believe he would do any of those things.

[Ragin4U]

My question was not about Marlin or the coaching staff or players, but the door was cracked just enough to unleash an anti-Marlin jab. I get it. Dont really need clarification on your feelings.

In general, does basketball have a higher return than football? What sport does have the highest ROI? What would your inputs and outputs be?

[VObserver]

Unless you are power 5. Basketball

Case in point, Gonzaga. Everyone considers them to be more or less on par with most P5 conference programs. Virtually no one sees Boise or Houston or Cincinnati football to be P5 competitive. Plus 2-4 NCAA Tournament units a year dwarfs bowl revenue unless you make the playoff or the access bowl.

[campo118]

I'd like to start off by saying I'm not a Marlin defender and would surely like to see us have better records than what we are currently seeing... But I've heard a lot of comments about how Marlin can't recruit and/or develop talent. I'd just like to point out that we will send two players to the NBA in consecutive years. Either those were great recruiting gets, or the coaches coached em up and got them playing above their recruiting grade. Either way one of those statements is pretty inaccurate. If you say what about the rest of the team, remember we are not Kentucky. We're not going to sign 3-5 NBA talent players every year and that expectation should be tempered a bit. We all have one thing in common. We love Cajun sports and we want to see them succeed. But we must remember there are other schools with a lot to offer besides our beloved University.