Yeah that’s fine but that’s not a thing to get upset with Carla about.
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True, but some familiarity there, in a sense. His uncle commanded the 29th (the Bedford Boys) on D-Day.
Bronco was not long for living out east. He was always going to make his way back out west. He’s a creature of comfort and couldn’t stomach being outside of his comfort zone once he started to face real adversity. Sure, building the FOC might have kept him a few years longer but it should be obvious by now that he just wanted to get away from where he was. It’s not like he left for somewhere that would make bigger financial commitments.
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We aren’t able to fund as many scholarships as SEC schools because 1) they get way more TV revenue money, 2) they sponsor way fewer sports and 3) their full cost of attendance is way lower so each scholarship costs less.
None of those SEC ADs are going out and trying to cultivate a donor base for each individual non-rev sport.
Besides Carolina and their Nike money, which of our peers is funding more scholarships than we are? We have 25 teams worth of scholarships to pay for too. We’re in the top 10-15 schools in the country in number of teams fielded.
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Going fine for Clemson, FSU, and UNC. We’ve been better than all 3 during BOCs tenure. Carla played with fire and failed to secure baseballs future and has now killed the program
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it has very little to do with realignment, football drives literally all revenue in collegiate athletics. Basketball is merely self-sustaining. The ONLY reason athletic deparments make a profit at all is due to football. if you have even a moderately successful football program, you can use that increased revenue and profit to help the other programs like baseball (which to anyone outside of us die-hards is a super niche sport).
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Clemson doesn’t have men’s and women’s lacrosse or swim or men’s wrestling or women’s rowing or field hockey and they make significantly more football gameday revenue than we do.
FSU doesn’t have men’s and women’s lacrosse, men’s soccer or wrestling or women’s rowing or field hockey.
UNC is the only school comparable to us, they actually sponsor a couple sports we don’t. But they get gobloads Nike money.
So if you want to keep up with baseball, what sports are you going to cut?
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I’m not crying over losing a guy who had the preseason No2 ranked team in the nation and couldn’t make the post season.
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So you’re telling me if we scrap the swim program we save baseball?
Your Sophies Choice LRA…
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Clemson now, yes. But Monte Lee, who followed Jack Leggett, was not particularly good.
FSU made a great hire, replacing Mike Martin with Link Jarratt; and UNC promoted their 16-year pitching coach (Scott Forbes) when Mike Fox retired.
Looks like we’re not going to have the UNC option, so it’s find someone else. It can turn out great (FSU, even after Martin’s son flamed out) or not great (Clemson).
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I would happily cut numerous sports to retain BOC and have an elite baseball program but that’s just my opinion. I wouldn’t bat an eye if I woke up tomorrow and field hockey and wrestling were gone
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Clemson, FSU, UNC, and NC State are all known (per Oak) to be funding baseball scholarships (or scholarship + rev share) at the same level as the SEC schools.
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So back in the late 90s the school created a commission to study the athletics program and make a recommendation. The commission said to de-emphasize some sports and cut others. People revolted at this idea and instead fully funded every sport up to the scholarship limit.
Maybe we should cut some sports, I don’t disagree. I don’t know which ones and I bet every sport will have loud supporters. But if baseball wants to keep competing, it’ll need some backers to come up with more cash. That’s true of every sport.
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I keep seeing certain posters declaring, as if factually, that this has been the worst year in UVA sports over the past x- number of years so I just looked up the Learfield cup standings and we are 12th nationally. That doesn’t include our runner-up finish in men’s golf plus track and field and rowing aren’t finished.
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It’s crazy to think 25 years ago baseball was on it’s last legs at UVa. I remember those legit discussions going on at the time.
But you’re touching on the third rail that all colleges and sports are facing. I haven’t seen anyone tell me a long term sustainable plan for supporting an entire athletic program. Programs cant be reliant on donors to continual bail them out on 1 year loans which is what it feels like is currently happening.
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So is this 100%? Do we think Carla is offering bags to keep him? What was the final tipping point? Shit hurts bad…..
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So Oak’s last game here will be the most unoaked game of his UVa tenure:
Eight left on base
Five errors (five unearned runs)
No stolen bases vs. seven given up
Three hit batters
No sacrifices
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Well that was a depressing read through…missed the Oak stuff on twitter.
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There isn’t an announcement but it sounds like it is a done deal–way more than smoke (one could say the dish is on fire)