Will We Be Able to Fully Fund Baseball & Softball?

[CajunVic]

Football takes everything.

where did you get that?

[cajun4life]

When the time comes, will we be able to fully fund baseball and softball? Where it seems things are heading with the NCAA and paying players, eventually baseball and softball will be allowed to expand the number of total scholarships, full scholarships. Another potential separation of haves and have nots. Cajuns diamond sports need to be with the 'haves' but wonder what commitment that will take.

The entire G5 should vote against moving baseball and softball to 35 scholarships unless football is reduced to 70 scholarships.

[cajun4life]

Football takes everything.

Basketball has a loser coach who has the personality as exciting as two snails copulating.

That’s why their is no money for basketball.

[8675309]

Basketball has a loser coach who has the personality as exciting as two snails copulating.

That’s why their is no money for basketball.

Fans like you are why Robert needs to get security to clear a pathway for him after games. You can call him VIP BOB!

[cjr3888]

Let's say NIL takes over baseball too. What happens to minor league baseball? If universities will now compete with them on a level field, not many guys will choose the minors over college.

Could have unexpected consequences of MLB sending guys up way earlier.

MLB already is pushing to have players develop in college with the cut down draft & dropping of MILB teams.

[ULvictory]

Fans like you are why Robert needs to get security to clear a pathway for him after games. You can call him VIP BOB!

Yeah don’t want all 20 people in the building trying to create a mob after the game.

[jaxmc1023]

Fans like you are why Robert needs to get security to clear a pathway for him after games. You can call him VIP BOB!

Please tell me we're paying for security to shield Bob from mean comments

[CajunT]

If you think that paying players hasn't already arrived in baseball and softball, you haven't been paying attention. How do you think [softball] Liberty's ace landed at Oklahoma and Central Arkansas' ace is now at Alabama? Last year the Arkansas NIL group furnished a car to every girl on the softball roster [not just scholarship players].
I have been told by reliable sources that the Softball NIL cost to be truly competitive with the top tier of competition is in the neighborhood of $500,000/year. That number is not going down.

I have been warning all of our Baseball and Softball fans that the time was coming when both sports were going to become head count sports [1scholarship player=1 scholarship].
That is not here yet, but with NIL, it might just as well be.

That's what Glasco told a few supporters, but no sport has raised that kind of NIL. And it's not just the NIL money, Oklahoma has the largest Softball Budget in the NCAA and Alabama is tops in the SEC for now. UL is nowhere close to either and neither is baseball unfortunately.

We are not cutting football or Basketball for either program.

[jaxmc1023]

The bigger concern is the school suddenly being OK with "competing for championships", and that meaning Sunbelt championships

Not that our program was ever really competing for a national championship in football or basketball, but once you come out and confirm that you are OK with mediocrity + an occasional tournament appearance, you will lose what's left of your fanbase

[CajunVic]

The bigger concern is the school suddenly being OK with "competing for championships", and that meaning Sunbelt championships

Not that our program was ever really competing for a national championship in football or basketball, but once you come out and confirm that you are OK with mediocrity + an occasional tournament appearance, you will lose what's left of your fanbase

so if you are told what you already know, at that point you won’t go