A loss sure we need to increase attendance in MBB. MBB is part of the SEC/ ESPN media rights so we do get paid on MBB. We don’t make a dime in baseball as ESPN/SEC doesn’t pay for Olympic sports. The baseball program has operated at a deficit of at least $1 million every year since 2011. Baseball does not directly receive money from media rights.
Is the LFL feeding the Tennessee players?
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I will never understand this pretentious, elitist ideology "only the rich get to enjoy cool stuff". Go eat some cold chicken tenders
We would feed the outfielders every game back in the day. We would throw drumsticks and watermelon at them. So,they had to work for it!
I find it slightly ironic that... the theory is cut baseball expenditures because it doesn't make money for football because it is about to have a $20m expense..... and drum roll..... lose money.
Football isn’t losing money. It’s the king but we have treated a glorified clubsport as king. Football pays for baseball, baseball can’t even operate at a break even point. We have lost and spent over 80MM in baseball over the last 16 years… for what? Hell no one watches baseball it’s not part of the media rights deal. It’s a gross mismanagement of funding.
Good one.
I literally said TO YOU in a post earlier: "Somehow this point is not sinking in, so I won't waste any more time on it." Leading to my comment above.
Well, you got me to waste another 2 minutes responding here to this stupid post, so good job I guess.
I literally said in a response TO YOU that I didn't mind an increase in cost for terraces. I just disagree totally with the idea that we shouldn't even attempt to be good in baseball because "football". I don't grill hot dogs dipshitt, but even if I did that's a weak *** insult.
Again, I don't know why I'm wasting my time responding to people like you. You got me.
That's jarring...scratch that...scary to read. Athletic suicide.
Zero. We haven’t made money since 2010 even that was marginal. Losses of over a million a year last 16 years, that’s 16MM or more now the 68MM cost of DNF. That’s 84MM in a sport that produces a 1 million deficit every year.
Not what I asked. I asked you about revenue.
Our budget is about 5M per year. Revenue is 3.5-4M. So I agree on your overall yearly loss of 1M.
Now to the stadium. Correct on 68M, but largely covered by private money. Around 15M from the AD coffers. Now, assuming the stadium isn't a part of the yearly budget, that's about 16M yearly budget plus 15M post construction which equals 31M total loss over those 15 years. That's 2M a year average, a little less before new stadium and little after. That's not moving the needle on football since it can't go to NIL.
So, the MOST you haters can throw is 2M/year in staff and whatever baseball gets from rev share, which is like 1.5M maximum.
Ya'll are idiots. And once stadium is paid off and seat licenses go up in 2029 that will be mitigated and baseball likely makes money.
So again, you're an idiot, two, you can't do math, and three, you don't have any information.
The money we get from football is paying for over half of the baseball stadium cost. It was not largely covered by private money.
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I will never understand stealing millions of dollars a year from the most important sport on campus so a bunch of poor sh*t heads can have premium Seats. Move to New York.
My point of view... I have my BS from State, as do both my kids. I love State football. It's been an abusive relationship - but I do. I've lost count of the number of years I've had football season tickets and will have them again next season. This year I'll attend my 50th consecutive Egg Bowl. However, I also like baseball, attended the 2021 CWS and would love some regular season chairbacks.
The facts... State spent a large chunk of $ on football the past couple of years and improved a small amount. We spent some $ this past year on baseball and have improved immensely. Although football is more popular nationwide, many State fans also love baseball.
My opinion... I get tired of spending hard earned $, traveling over 3 hours one way to Starkville for every home football game to only see minimal improvements in the form of W's. However, I'm just not willing to sacrifice the one thing we can be proud of to bring ourselves from the bottom of the conference in the more popular sport to the middle of the pack.
Just support our university. Buy your tickets. Add to NIL as you're able. Put your butts in your seats. Quit bickering about it. And get off my lawn!
The facts... State spent a large chunk of $ on football the past couple of years and improved a small amount. We spent some $ this past year on baseball and have improved immensely. Although football is more popular nationwide, many State fans also love baseball.
My opinion... I get tired of spending hard earned $, traveling over 3 hours one way to Starkville for every home football game to only see minimal improvements in the form of W's. However, I'm just not willing to sacrifice the one thing we can be proud of to bring ourselves from the bottom of the conference in the more popular sport to the middle of the pack.
Just support our university. Buy your tickets. Add to NIL as you're able. Put your butts in your seats. Quit bickering about it. And get off my lawn!
Hey *** wipe. My research is based on facts
That article just says the same stuff that I agreed with you on in the previous post.
But most importantly, it proves that you have zero sources, as you claim to have.
I have sources but you don’t want to hear what I been saying so I have to show you in print. But before this article was printed if you go back and read everything I been saying about clubsport it’s right their laid out in this article.
Show us on the doll where the bad baseball man touched you.
It’s 100% helping support and subsidize baseball. Baseball isn’t part of the media rights deal. Aka SEC check we get. But we for some reason have decided to make a priority of a sport that’s one zero Rev, operates in the red, isn’t part of the media rights contract, and did I mention we allocate more Rev share and more NIl than anyone else in the sec to a glorified clubsport.
Easy fix. Increase the LFL prices and only let it go to personal accounts. Have a waiting list for corporate and allow them to buy any that aren't purchased.
I'm just kinda wondering if there will be a point where the baseball minimalists will consider their point made and move to some other gripe.
This horse no longer has any unbroken bones and expired many moons ago.
This horse no longer has any unbroken bones and expired many moons ago.
It will be when that 20m dollar payroll expense hits.
You’re wrong. Baseball donors covered 25 million and we borrowed the rest, which has to be paid for by the football team. The football team who is the only one in the SEC with an open end zone. The football team who has to practice in an indoor baseball facility. The football team who has the lowest recruiting budget in the SEC. Their money is going to baseball at unprecedented levels for any school in relation to how much their budget is.
Trustees approve MSU borrowing $30M for baseball stadium
Trustees have approved plans for Mississippi State University to borrow up to $30 million to expand and overhaul its baseball stadium.
apnews.com
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We will stop as soon as your crowd pays for what you act like you so desperately want. If baseball is as important as you people say it is here, you should have no problem paying for everything you need to win without the help of football. I mean look at the attendance and waiting list for tickets. No excuse to not be self sustaining. When that happens people will shut up about it. I have never in my life seen a group so obsessed with winning at something they are so adamant they should not have to pay for themselves.
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Haha, 2017 article. So you don’t know ****! Only what you can scrape on the net.You’re wrong. Baseball donors covered 25 million and we borrowed the rest, which has to be paid for by the football team. The football team who is the only one in the SEC with an open end zone. The football team who has to practice in an indoor baseball facility. The football team who has the lowest recruiting budget in the SEC. Their money is going to baseball at unprecedented levels for any school in relation to how much their budget is.
Trustees approve MSU borrowing $30M for baseball stadium
Trustees have approved plans for Mississippi State University to borrow up to $30 million to expand and overhaul its baseball stadium.
Yes, dumbass. The year prior to the stadium being built they announced how it was going to be financed. I’m sorry the truth doesn’t match up to your fantasy. And anyone who has been a member of any pay site for the past decade knows this, but I knew if I just said that you would not believe it either so I put something on here that was published.
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If you increase the price of lounges and outprice the common fan, the lounge immediately loses it's allure. Something that has given DNF life for years becomes some corporate slop and it will be dead.
The baseball field losing its allure is not the football program’s financial responsibility.