• Baseball being cut?

 #27917  by JohnW
 Mon May 18, 2020 3:45 pm
This is being reported all over twitter. Can anyone confirm or deny?

Seeing lacrosse gone too.
 #27920  by Roundball
 Mon May 18, 2020 4:08 pm
JohnW wrote:
Mon May 18, 2020 3:45 pm
This is being reported all over twitter. Can anyone confirm or deny?

Seeing lacrosse gone too.
Are you saying Lacrosse is gone too or you are you saying you could see it being cut?
 #27925  by Flagman
 Mon May 18, 2020 4:20 pm
What's next? Disturbing, yet not surprising. How does all of this affect title IX?
 #27940  by gofurman
 Mon May 18, 2020 5:22 pm
Man. This is rough.

Here’s what catches my eye (paraphrase). “this pandemic merely accelerated what we were planning to do anyway with the Furman advantage”. That scares me
 #53593  by apaladin
 Wed May 18, 2022 3:59 pm
The 2 year anniversary. I posted in the other thread but didn’t realize today is the 2 year anniversary until I looked it up. So sad. Thanks ED.
 #53596  by Flagman
 Wed May 18, 2022 6:06 pm
Really?
 #53939  by Sad Din
 Sat Jun 04, 2022 10:40 am
Not to fan the fires again... bu if this is true... wow

Suppose if baseball and MLax was saving $5M per year ...

 #53945  by apaladin
 Sat Jun 04, 2022 11:35 pm
Sad Din wrote:
Sat Jun 04, 2022 10:40 am
Not to fan the fires again... bu if this is true... wow

Suppose if baseball and MLax was saving $5M per year ...

Again there was absolutely no reason to cut baseball or lacrosse. Thanks ED.
 #53946  by MidlandsPaladin
 Sun Jun 05, 2022 8:27 am
I’m most definitely in the “bring back baseball “ camp. I’m just trying to understand these numbers. Wofford costs $65,000 a year. Are scholarships not considered an “operating expense”? Or can we assume that every Woffy player is on an academic scholarship? Or their partials are just that small?
 #53947  by HB88
 Sun Jun 05, 2022 9:43 am
These figures seem to be ONLY basic operating expenses and would not include other fixed costs such as coaches salaries and athletic scholarships.
 #53953  by apaladin
 Mon Jun 06, 2022 12:16 am
This brings up the old question. Are scholarships a real cost?
 #53954  by Furmanoid
 Mon Jun 06, 2022 6:51 am
HB88 wrote:
Sun Jun 05, 2022 9:43 am
These figures seem to be ONLY basic operating expenses and would not include other fixed costs such as coaches salaries and athletic scholarships.
They seem to high for that. Uniforms, bats and balls might cost $5000-not $500,000. Seems like the operating costs would be about the same as HS if not for salaries. But on the other hand, these numbers seem too low to include scholarships. 10 scholarships would be about $300,000 most places (over $600,000 at FU). So I think those numbers cover everything but scholarships.
 #53958  by HB88
 Mon Jun 06, 2022 2:31 pm
Just looked it up and the expenses listed are strictly "Game-Day" expenses and do not include salaries, scholarships, or recruiting expenses.