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It’s probably been discussed and I missed it. And not sure what board is the proper one to put it under since baseball isn’t currently a sport, but with ACC membership now, and aside from the SEC, ACC baseball is pretty top notch, is fielding a baseball team again for the first time in decades on the docket?

It's been discussed more than once. We would need a ball park and would probably need to add softball as well. Between the cost of land anywhere near SMU and the increase it would drive in the athletic dept budget, I don't see it happening

Bumping this old thread on the other sports tab

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We HAVE what amounts to a minor league ballpark already. Strap on you skates or mount up your bike and a short ride south of campus along the Katy Trail will land you at Reverchon Park.

SMU wants to get plugged-in with the community and Mayor Johnson is a fan, so why not do a joint venture with the City of Dallas? SMU plays home games there, the city gets the concessions. It's a win-win.

If a sport is added, and that's a big IF for the foreseeable future, lacrosse seems far more likely. There is a field on campus, and it was donated by an important alum. You'd think they would want to keep him happy before adding anything off campus.

Roach wrote:If a sport is added, and that's a big IF for the foreseeable future, lacrosse seems far more likely. There is a field on campus, and it was donated by an important alum. You'd think they would want to keep him happy before adding anything off campus.

Agreed and only the ACC and B1G has schools competing in lacrosse

As I've said many times, to add baseball or lacrosse, you'd need to add 1.5 women's sports to satisfy Title IX. So, which ever sport you choose, you'll need a mirror image women's sport, lacrosse or softball and a smaller women's sport. Like shooting, bowling, or my favorite, beach volleyball. I personally think the ACC should start a college NASCAR competition. You have NASCAR tracks throughout the ACC footprint. Charlotte, Bristol, Martinsburg, Richmond, Daytona, Pocono, Texas. Imagine an SMU team, a UNC team, a VT team, a Pitt Team, an NC State team, a FSU team, a Duke team. You would also be able to use students of both sexes from the engineering schools to design the cars. If you want to be green it could be for electric cars. Its' ratings would be very high. Those tracks are empty 40-50 weeks per year.

EastStang wrote:As I've said many times, to add baseball or lacrosse, you'd need to add 1.5 women's sports to satisfy Title IX. So, which ever sport you choose, you'll need a mirror image women's sport, lacrosse or softball and a smaller women's sport. Like shooting, bowling, or my favorite, beach volleyball.

Is there an overlap between the players on a beach volleyball team and the regular version?

Given the prominence of lacrosse, men and women, in the ACC, I would be thrilled if we added this sport. And, we would become the first Division 1 school in Texas to have it.

BTW. It is a fantastic spectator sport.

Water Pony wrote:Given the prominence of lacrosse, men and women, in the ACC, I would be thrilled if we added this sport. And, we would become the first Division 1 school in Texas to have it.

BTW. It os a fantastic spectator sport.

Could possibly be a recruiting advantage although I don't know how big lacrosse might be for high schoolers in Texas

Just spent the weekend watching Alabama play baseball in the Frisco round robin tournament at the Rough Riders facility (it’s really nice). The teams were Bama, Arizona, Indiana, and Dallas Baptist. Great fun and good crowds. Baseball would be great - lots of talent with 50 miles of SMU.

seems like we have a pretty good club team. Been following them on IG

I realize this is pie-in-the-sky fantasy talk, which is OK to dream about, but in reality would be an extraordinarily foolish move

Adding a new sport, especially Baseball, would require millions of dollars of commitment from SMU annually. Wouldn’t the cost alone of building baseball & softball stadiums approach $20M???

We are living in precarious times where our immediate future is dependent on Football & to a lesser extent MBB, and posters want to divert precious resources to another sport??

I can see it now. ‘Well, maybe we got left behind in the new P3, but our baseball team is really good this year…..in Division 2A’

Unfortunately I think you're right.

All in on football.

Ccolley68 wrote:It’s probably been discussed and I missed it. And not sure what board is the proper one to put it under since baseball isn’t currently a sport, but with ACC membership now, and aside from the SEC, ACC baseball is pretty top notch, is fielding a baseball team again for the first time in decades on the docket?

Let's start with men's track - surely our track is in compliance. And to balance out, add women's tumbling.