The Unofficial Furman Football Page

Pulling for Mercer Sunday. Funny thing is if FU had not won the last regular season against MU WC would have had a much tougher road. MU and WC would have flipped positions.

Hope our MB gets this baseball thing straightened out for FU before he leaves us for $ greener $ pastures. (Same for lacrosse, but MB is the baseball guru, is he not?)

Credit WoCo for following the strategy of funding its big three high profile sports (football, men’s hoops, baseball) for success at the expense of virtually all its other sports. When they went D1, football and men’s hoops were priorities; baseball not. It showed in W-Ls. About 4-5 years ago baseball got significantly increased scholarship, financial assistance support they had never experienced. It’s translated to the field. Their coach has also come a long way in development, making good hires, recruiting, and following a sound scheduling strategy( something we need to emulate). Credit to them. Furman probably ranks in the middle of the pack (at best, and probably now trails Wofford) in total scholarship support of its baseball program given FU’s new model for academic aid. FU can compete now, but it’s getting harder (see above) and with our admission standards, which are easily the highest in the league. I wish we’d fully commit to being good in the Big Three. Football and hoops have their unique challenges, but they have excellent leadership and enough resources to win titles. It would be nice if baseball could join that club as a FU priority, which would be new for the sport.

The baseball team has a streak of it's own as far as non-NCAA appearances go. Now at 14 years, not nearly as impressive as basketball but it's growing with no end in sight. One other thing, unlike basketball this past season in which the SoCon was really elevated, baseball which has been good in the past had a very down year. Still we were only middle of the pack.

...and Woffy loses two to Mercer on Sunday so the trifecta is foiled.