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Unless and until Title IX changes, or we get a P5 invite, I don't see baseball coming back to SMU absent someone with a big bank wad and a desire to see it back. My estimate would be that to field a competitive baseball team would require an endowment of $40-50 Million (field, staff, scholarships for baseball and 1.5 women's sports). Or you'd have to pick whether to dump, men's swimming, tennis, or golf, plus soccer.

I wish we had baseball. We have a too many bougie sports.

As long as Title IX exists, we are stuck with what we have. Again, which men's sport(s) do you want to cut to add baseball? Golf, Tennis, swimming, soccer, football or basketball?

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As fans, we also say we want baseball, but in my years, we never drew flies. It's less about Title IX and more about it being a costly venture that had limited appeal at SMU. You'd have to add an on campus stadium, which can't be used for any other sport at a time when everyone says an IPF is what is needed. Time to move on...

Boston Pony wrote:As fans, we also say we want baseball, but in my years, we never drew flies. It's less about Title IX and more about it being a costly venture that had limited appeal at SMU. You'd have to add an on campus stadium, which can't be used for any other sport at a time when everyone says an IPF is what is needed. Time to move on...

Agreed Boston Pony, but I wonder what affect the Texas Rangers has had. Have they made baseball more attractive to fans or have they locked up the baseball fan from Dallas, TX? You and I would follow both but what about the average Dallas fan?

jpe747 wrote:

Boston Pony wrote:As fans, we also say we want baseball, but in my years, we never drew flies. It's less about Title IX and more about it being a costly venture that had limited appeal at SMU. You'd have to add an on campus stadium, which can't be used for any other sport at a time when everyone says an IPF is what is needed. Time to move on...

Agreed Boston Pony, but I wonder what affect the Texas Rangers has had. Have they made baseball more attractive to fans or have they locked up the baseball fan from Dallas, TX? You and I would follow both but what about the average Dallas fan?

Plus, College Baseball has become significantly more popular - particularly in Texas.

Digetydog wrote:

jpe747 wrote:

Boston Pony wrote:As fans, we also say we want baseball, but in my years, we never drew flies. It's less about Title IX and more about it being a costly venture that had limited appeal at SMU. You'd have to add an on campus stadium, which can't be used for any other sport at a time when everyone says an IPF is what is needed. Time to move on...

Agreed Boston Pony, but I wonder what affect the Texas Rangers has had. Have they made baseball more attractive to fans or have they locked up the baseball fan from Dallas, TX? You and I would follow both but what about the average Dallas fan?

Plus, College Baseball has become significantly more popular - particularly in Texas.

That's great that means it's in fourth or fifth place behind women's basketball

Baseball is so popular that they rescheduled the Cinderella college world series final for Thursday at 1pm.

smupony94 wrote:
That's great that means it's in fourth or fifth place behind women's basketball

1) Football
2) MBB

What do you think is 3rd? In terms of attendance, I would think that Baseball is approaching (if not exceeding) WBB at many schools that play at a high level.

TCU, Rice, Texas, Baylor Tech, and even Tulane all have nice sized stadiums and draw decent crowds from time to time.

Can't even come close to funding an IPF and people want to add a new sport

smupony94 wrote:Can't even come close to funding an IPF and people want to add a new sport

Two new sports...

1. IPF
2. Get cheerleading designated as a sport
3. Add lacrosse