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May 6, 2024 18:26:27 GMT -8
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Post by nuclearbeaver on May 6, 2024 18:26:27 GMT -8
I will add to all of this that Oregon State may also get the benefit of the doubt, because Travis Bazzana wears orange and black. I expect them to seed Georgia similarly. With that, I'm pretty sure OSU won't get as much help from other top teams. I wrote up (and lost it🙄) every teams' remaining scheduled who has an RPI below OSU's. Almost all, except Indiana St. & ECar, have better to much better schedules filled with top RPI games. OSU will have to go 6-1 and win the Pac12 then hope the committee wants a Top 8 in the West. It truly appears 7 of 8 spots will be ACC/SEC. But, a team has to beat great teams at some point. A Top 8 isn't a necessity to advance. Top 8 eliminated before CWS... '14 (6) of (8) '15 (4) of (8) '16 (5) of (8) '17 (3) of (8) '18 (4) of (8) '19 (3) of (8) '21 (3) of (8) '22 (6) of (8) '23 (3) of (8) Hosting is more important for our athletic budget than for advancing. We need baseball to generate as much income as possible and those packed home stadiums are a big deal. That's even more true since teams lose money going to Omaha unless it's covered with merchandise sales and donations. |
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5/6 poll
May 6, 2024 18:45:15 GMT -8
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Post by rgeorge on May 6, 2024 18:45:15 GMT -8
With that, I'm pretty sure OSU won't get as much help from other top teams. I wrote up (and lost it🙄) every teams' remaining scheduled who has an RPI below OSU's. Almost all, except Indiana St. & ECar, have better to much better schedules filled with top RPI games. OSU will have to go 6-1 and win the Pac12 then hope the committee wants a Top 8 in the West. It truly appears 7 of 8 spots will be ACC/SEC. But, a team has to beat great teams at some point. A Top 8 isn't a necessity to advance. Top 8 eliminated before CWS... '14 (6) of (8) '15 (4) of (8) '16 (5) of (8) '17 (3) of (8) '18 (4) of (8) '19 (3) of (8) '21 (3) of (8) '22 (6) of (8) '23 (3) of (8) Hosting is more important for our athletic budget than for advancing. We need baseball to generate as much income as possible and those packed home stadiums are a big deal. That's even more true since teams lose money going to Omaha unless it's covered with merchandise sales and donations. The amount OSU makes at home, Regional & Super, is a drop in the bucket to the overall budget. And, Omaha costs the AD money. Baseball is not, never will be a money maker of any kind. Baseball is about 6% of the average operating expenses for P5 schools. Even less for revenue. As of 2023 less than 8% of college baseball programs make a profit. Regionals and Supers have lots of expenses not reimbursed. It's about exposure not $. The per diems don't begin to cover travel, rooms, food, etc. OSU baseball lost $1.82 mil for fiscal year 2023. Hosting and CWS would have deepened that. |
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5/6 poll
May 6, 2024 19:05:55 GMT -8
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Post by gnawitall on May 6, 2024 19:05:55 GMT -8
Hosting is more important for our athletic budget than for advancing. We need baseball to generate as much income as possible and those packed home stadiums are a big deal. That's even more true since teams lose money going to Omaha unless it's covered with merchandise sales and donations. The amount OSU makes at home, Regional & Super, is a drop in the bucket to the overall budget. And, Omaha costs the AD money. Baseball is not, never will be a money maker of any kind. Baseball is about 6% of the average operating expenses for P5 schools. Even less for revenue. As of 2023 less than 8% of college baseball programs make a profit. Regionals and Supers have lots of expenses not reimbursed. It's about exposure not $. The per diems don't begin to cover travel, rooms, food, etc. OSU baseball lost $1.82 mil for fiscal year 2023. Hosting and CWS would have deepened that. 🤯 |
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Post by nuclearbeaver on May 6, 2024 20:26:37 GMT -8
Hosting is more important for our athletic budget than for advancing. We need baseball to generate as much income as possible and those packed home stadiums are a big deal. That's even more true since teams lose money going to Omaha unless it's covered with merchandise sales and donations. The amount OSU makes at home, Regional & Super, is a drop in the bucket to the overall budget. And, Omaha costs the AD money. Baseball is not, never will be a money maker of any kind. Baseball is about 6% of the average operating expenses for P5 schools. Even less for revenue. As of 2023 less than 8% of college baseball programs make a profit. Regionals and Supers have lots of expenses not reimbursed. It's about exposure not $. The per diems don't begin to cover travel, rooms, food, etc. OSU baseball lost $1.82 mil for fiscal year 2023. Hosting and CWS would have deepened that. We lose money on home games? |
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5/6 poll
May 6, 2024 20:38:44 GMT -8
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Post by rgeorge on May 6, 2024 20:38:44 GMT -8
The amount OSU makes at home, Regional & Super, is a drop in the bucket to the overall budget. And, Omaha costs the AD money. Baseball is not, never will be a money maker of any kind. Baseball is about 6% of the average operating expenses for P5 schools. Even less for revenue. As of 2023 less than 8% of college baseball programs make a profit. Regionals and Supers have lots of expenses not reimbursed. It's about exposure not $. The per diems don't begin to cover travel, rooms, food, etc. OSU baseball lost $1.82 mil for fiscal year 2023. Hosting and CWS would have deepened that. We lose money on home games? The amount of bidding process & hosting a regional is expensive and requires more than regular home games. If there is any profit it is a drop in the bucket. It's not a difference maker monetarily. It is in being a home game for the team. But, you knew exactly what was meant previously. Nothing was mentioned about home games. Baseball losses a significant amount of $ every year. Hosting or not. Care to move the goal posts again? |
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Post by osubeaver2018 on May 6, 2024 20:41:08 GMT -8
The amount OSU makes at home, Regional & Super, is a drop in the bucket to the overall budget. And, Omaha costs the AD money. Baseball is not, never will be a money maker of any kind. Baseball is about 6% of the average operating expenses for P5 schools. Even less for revenue. As of 2023 less than 8% of college baseball programs make a profit. Regionals and Supers have lots of expenses not reimbursed. It's about exposure not $. The per diems don't begin to cover travel, rooms, food, etc. OSU baseball lost $1.82 mil for fiscal year 2023. Hosting and CWS would have deepened that. We lose money on home games? I don't think that's necessarily what he was saying, more so that unless we were an LSU or Miss. State that brings in 10K+ fans every game baseball just won't turn a profit here. Maybe we just need to add a 2nd deck to Goss and build permanent outfield seating and get that capacity up to 8,000 or so  |
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Post by nuclearbeaver on May 6, 2024 20:41:51 GMT -8
We lose money on home games? I don't think that's necessarily what he was saying, more so that unless we were an LSU or Miss. State that brings in 10K+ fans every game baseball just won't turn a profit here. Maybe we just need to add a 2nd deck to Goss and build permanent outfield seating and get that capacity up to 8,000 or so Thats good, if we lost money with a full house for apost season game our sticket office needs to figure some stuff the f%#* out. |
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Post by nuclearbeaver on May 6, 2024 21:00:39 GMT -8
We lose money on home games? The amount of bidding process & hosting a regional is expensive and requires more than regular home games. If there is any profit it is a drop in the bucket. It's not a difference maker monetarily. It is in being a home game for the team. But, you knew exactly what was meant previously. Nothing was mentioned about home games. Baseball losses a significant amount of $ every year. Hosting or not. Care to move the goal posts again? I wasn't being snarky, I was actually concerned we lost money on regoinals and super regionals when we hosted. I did say in my post that hosting helped financially and I meant vs actually traveling. I read somewhere hosting basically covers the cost of omaha. |
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Post by rgeorge on May 6, 2024 22:05:45 GMT -8
The amount of bidding process & hosting a regional is expensive and requires more than regular home games. If there is any profit it is a drop in the bucket. It's not a difference maker monetarily. It is in being a home game for the team. But, you knew exactly what was meant previously. Nothing was mentioned about home games. Baseball losses a significant amount of $ every year. Hosting or not. Care to move the goal posts again? I wasn't being snarky, I was actually concerned we lost money on regoinals and super regionals when we hosted. I did say in my post that hosting helped financially and I meant vs actually traveling. I read somewhere hosting basically covers the cost of omaha. I apologize. We don't have the best history on here!? Basically, not exact, but the NCAA runs something like 92 championships with only 7-9 that make $. Hoops tourney bringing in the vast majority of the revenue. So until the new media deal for those other sports kicks in only mbb hoop teams get a load of $. Other championship teams don't get enough to make much extra over covering expenses. Why the NCAA basically became irrelevant when they have up control of post season football. |
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