SMU Baseball

[ponyup10]

The baseball team was shut down in 1980, to make room for the men's soccer team.

[NavyCrimson]

u serious?!

that was the #1 reason???

[smupony94]

u serious?!

that was the #1 reason???

I hope so, no name team for nationally recognized team

[Otto]

Great decision. Coach Hyndman's team is among the best in the country every single year.

Another reason to love college soccer: no silly metal bats.

[mustangbill67]

I cannot recall when Baseball was dropped as a varisty sport but SMU men’s soccer team competed for the first time in 1975 after being a club team. Its first coach was Jimmy Benedek who was an excellent coach. SMU defeated TCU, 8-1, in its first game. The Mustangs would post a 14-4-2 record in their first season and went to the NCAA tournament for the first time in 1979. Schellas took over in the early 1980's. I remember baseball as a varsity sport but I do not remember it's being dropped as having anything to do with soccer. The women's program began in the late 1980's.

[EastStang]

Baseball was certainly still going in 1976 when I graduated and continued until at least 1979 because my sister dated a baseball player for awhile.

[Diamond Girl]

Baseball was cancelled in the '79-'80 school year. I went out with someone for awhile who'd been accepted to SMU on a baseball scholarship. When the program was cut, he stayed anyway. Spring of '79 would have been the program's final season.