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preacher_dawg

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The recruiting and projections thread about football and basketball got me thinking that it is probably easier to recruit for baseball at State based simply upon Dudy Noble. It is a state of the art facility and I know I am biased, but probably the best in the country. Davis Wade and the Hump? It's been ages since I have been able to go, but honestly, they are probably average at best. What can be done to improve those facilities?
 
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preacher_dawg said:
The recruiting and projections thread about football and basketball got me thinking that it is probably easier to recruit for baseball at State based simply upon Dudy Noble. It is a state of the art facility and I know I am biased, but probably the best in the country. Davis Wade and the Hump? It's been ages since I have been able to go, but honestly, they are probably average at best. What can be done to improve those facilities?
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Right now the best in the country.....however, let's wait and see what LSU, TX, and TAMU do with their new redos. They are spending twice what we did on our whole stadium.
 
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preacher_dawg said:
The recruiting and projections thread about football and basketball got me thinking that it is probably easier to recruit for baseball at State based simply upon Dudy Noble. It is a state of the art facility and I know I am biased, but probably the best in the country. Davis Wade and the Hump? It's been ages since I have been able to go, but honestly, they are probably average at best. What can be done to improve those facilities?
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Dollar bills. State is throwing out a lot of money that most schools aren’t for baseball. Having O’Conner helps though.
 
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preacher_dawg said:
Davis Wade and the Hump? It's been ages since I have been able to go, but honestly, they are probably average at best. What can be done to improve those facilities?
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Just ask the players to sign up for a voluntary NIL payroll deduction from their paychecks for facility upgrades.
 
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preacher_dawg said:
The recruiting and projections thread about football and basketball got me thinking that it is probably easier to recruit for baseball at State based simply upon Dudy Noble. It is a state of the art facility and I know I am biased, but probably the best in the country. Davis Wade and the Hump? It's been ages since I have been able to go, but honestly, they are probably average at best. What can be done to improve those facilities?
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Just did $50 Million in renovations to The Hump 2 years ago which they announced as improving "the fan experience". Phase 2 calls for renovations to include "the athlete experience". I thought NIL was to improve the athlete experience?
 
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Baseball, has a successful program to sell. Also you did have fewer scholarships to give out. So not everyone could stock pile talent. I'm not sure scholarships matter for baseball in this day of nil?

facilities.... the west side of Davis Wade is the same as it has been since 1983. Well Strickland did up grade the lower concourse around 2010 or so. The west side needs to be totally rebuilt. That would certainly help ticket sells. But I doubt it matters for recruits.
 
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Maroon13 said:
I'm not sure scholarships matter for baseball in this day of nil?
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Of course they matter. And we have a lot more of them to give now, which definitely helped us.

This whole 'mUh NiL iS aLl ThAt MaTtErS' now is angry old man trope. Sure it matters for the best players. But the majority of the rest are lucky to get anything, and most are just looking for a roster spot one, and playing time two.
 
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Scholarship still matters. Schools aren’t paying 3rd string and scout team players much over a few $thousand in football.

certainly the guys at the end of the bench in basketball who get in for the final minute of a blowout don’t get much.

we have 11 baseball transfers out. A couple probably had decent pay per season, but some of those guys were on the low end of the pay scale.

It’s the curriculum I would question as far as the value of the scholarship. If they had General Studies as a major when I was in college, I would have a Masters Degree based on my total hours from changing my major 3 times!
 
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With 34 scholarships now, every player you want, gets a scholarship. So it isn't the bargaining chip it once was. Or a factor in deciding for players as every school offers a scholarship now.

I'm sure the nil offer is where the negotiations and decisions come into play.

Our facility and program potential is a factor as well. Something football can't offer.
 
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Football is making a huge investment in the IPF and renovation of the Seal building. That’s priority one. The second will be the upgrading of the west side and south endzone. Those two capital projects are about to get started. The IPF and Seal renovation will be one of the best facilities in football
 
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The Peeper said:
So the narrative has changed from "nobody is spending money on baseball facilities" to only the ones w/ lots of money?
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What narrative? I don't recall posting about it except where it concerns us. What I said still stands though. If we had Texas money I'd have no problem building a small major league level stadium on campus. They have to search for ways to spend money.
 
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The Peeper said:
But, but, but, wait, we hear nobody is spending money on facilities for that club sport baseball from the crowd here, how can that be?
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It a mistake. Misinformation fur sur'. Nobody cares about college baseball. Just because ESPN said that this year's MCWS was the highest viewed series in a number of years, it's all a lie.
 
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leeinator

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The Peeper said:
But, but, but, wait, we hear nobody is spending money on facilities for that club sport baseball from the crowd here, how can that be?
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TAMU has allocated 80 million to Bluebell Park renovation and it was a pretty dang good stadium as it was.
 
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