You said: Are you raising the money? Because it's all coming from private funds for baseball. Should it not be the same for Softball?
I said: Do you know how it is being funded?
I asked you, you didn't ask me. You did tell me how baseball was being funded. Now answer the question that I asked you first. You asked if it should be funded the same. I asked you how softball was being funded.
Cajuns Football better be our focus. 3 SBC programs having hosted College Gameday and always, at minimum, a top 25 team being from the Belt, this is not the same conference as in the days of ol' Toothpick.
It's funny because you think people care about softball on a national scale. It's brought UL slightly more notoriety than the waterski championships. Nobody cares. Go to s sports bar in Atlanta or Cleveland and ask 100 people who won the WCWS. You'll mostly get blank stares, and that's WITH ESPN shoving it down your throat.
And, TBF, you could do the same for baseball.
Just because you don’t care, doesn’t mean “nobody cares.” Check out the ratings for softball, check out the growth of the sport. It’s about brand advancement, and every piece of success helps. If UL could get football to where softball and even baseball are, yes, it gets the school 1000x further.
To completely dismiss what that program has done for this university, imo though, is incorrect.
Focus definitely needs to be on football and basketball. With the football playoffs expanding to 12 teams we could be in CFP and a shot at a national title in football if we went 12-0 with a conference championship. Something like that would shoot us in a different hemisphere.
I follow softball more than baseball these days. Today's softball is far different than what it was in the past where 1-0, 2-1 games were mostly the norm. Today, power hitters are everywhere and hitting in general has leaped ahead challenging even the best pitchers. It's a faster game with more athletic plays than in the past and it's gaining momentum. We are lucky to have such a successful program.no 6 in the nation in total wins.
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