I don’t think it’s a matter of being committed to baseball or not but more of a matter of football and basketball being priorities.
It all has to be budgeted.
Yep. That’s exactly my point. We’ve got bigger fish to fry in many ways.
Football and men’s basketball are the engine for college athletics, and what open the wallets of the donors for other projects like baseball. We have to get those healthy first — football because it is the cash cow and basketball because we’s so under-performed for so long against the program’s inputs.
If I were AD, I would look at the baseball program and think:
– Bottom third to quarter in the league investment level
– Top third to quarter in the league results
– Stable coach, not going anywhere
– Consistently getting me points in the AD’s cup
– Seemingly no off the field issues
– Supposedly good with the fans at the Wolfpack club events
Check, time to move on………. Well, unless anyone has a large donation they’d like to make to better our facilities.
