but I'm WAY more into what happens at Vanderbilt tonight than I am about the niche sport that is college baseball. College baseball is fun when we win but it just doesn't bother me like men's basketball or football does when we lose. That's just ME, my personal opinion.
I'm in the minority I'm sure...
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You’re in the minority. Like it or not, baseball is more important at Mississippi State than basketball is.
Yes, but like it or not, college baseball doesn't matter at all in most of the country. There are powerhouse teams that draw less than 1k for home games. College softball gets better TV ratings. Baseball is and always will be a professionally based sport.
100% with you. College baseball sucks as a national product. The only reasons fans love it here is because for decades it was the only sport we could consistently punch above .500. Basketball was king when I was at State, the baseball team was a joke. We’re back!
Which power programs draw less than 1,000 fans? Not that it matters. Baseball is more important than basketball at Mississippi State.
just look at what we did to the Dude a fews ago and what we’re doing to the Hump now. It’s not even close.
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STATE Baseball sucking bothers the hell outta me as I've invested too many decades of it and will continue to do so but I understand it's not as important as Hoops and Football.
Baseball is my favorite sport, but the game in Nashville tonight is more important than the entire baseball non-con schedule combined.
If baseball is that important. We really need to raise ticket prices 200%. With the money that has been spent on baseball in the last 5 or so years, we need to be at a net profit of around $3M per year.
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FWIW........I'm the exact opposite of your preference.
I’m so sick of talking about Mississippi State baseball in March. Who gives a **** until April. Focus on basketball, because nobody gives a hell about college baseball. Our fans are dumb af
Basketball chasing the NCAA Tourney is objectively far more important than nonconference baseball and it’s not close.
So are you trying to convince State Baseball fans that their focus is futile and meaningless, because it is not a significant revenue sport?
your efforts are and will be in vain. I don’t value my rooting interest in college athletics based on revenue. Our main revenue sport at MSU has a historical losing overall record and a significant conference losing record in its history, so it’s not like all that revenue makes it better or more enjoyable to watch our football team play 7 home games, 12 overall games and historically lose 7 of the 12. Just how much money has our basketball program made since Stansbury left after expenses, salaries, and no major tourney appearances?
Meanwhile our Baseball program did the most rarest of feats for any MSU athletics program by not only making it to the Elite 8 of College Baseball, but also winning a National ( meaning better than all other baseball playing programs at this level ) Championship. You can poopoo on that fest all you want, but your precious clown show basketball program only came close to doing it once and hasn’t smelled the inside of an Elite 8 locker room since 1996. I also assume you sucked at baseball when you were young.
your efforts are and will be in vain. I don’t value my rooting interest in college athletics based on revenue. Our main revenue sport at MSU has a historical losing overall record and a significant conference losing record in its history, so it’s not like all that revenue makes it better or more enjoyable to watch our football team play 7 home games, 12 overall games and historically lose 7 of the 12. Just how much money has our basketball program made since Stansbury left after expenses, salaries, and no major tourney appearances?
Meanwhile our Baseball program did the most rarest of feats for any MSU athletics program by not only making it to the Elite 8 of College Baseball, but also winning a National ( meaning better than all other baseball playing programs at this level ) Championship. You can poopoo on that fest all you want, but your precious clown show basketball program only came close to doing it once and hasn’t smelled the inside of an Elite 8 locker room since 1996. I also assume you sucked at baseball when you were young.
Just for the record, when were you at MSU when "the baseball team was a joke"?
You’re probably in the minority but I am there with you. Baseball is not anywhere close to football and basketball for me and never has been.
Most of them on the west coast. In the grand scheme of things men's basketball is more important at MSU too, simply because it is a MUCH bigger sport. College baseball is a minor sport. There are places that draw BIG for lacrosse too. Most people couldn't tell you who is good at lacrosse, just like college baseball.
Me, no. I was at MSU from 1981 to 1985.
I don't follow or like Lacrosse, couldn't tell you how many are on the field or their positions but I know the main players in the sport - Johns Hopkins, UVA, ND, UNC, Syracuse, Navy, Duke, Maryland, University of Denver. If you're a college sports fan you know....
Then keep your mouth shut and don't talk about it.
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MSU “baseball is king” fans are the 17ing worst. College baseball is so irrelevant. No one outside the SEC has a clue who won the CWS in 2021
A lot of people inside the SEC don't know who won the baseball championship in 2021 either. But to be fair, I don't have a clue who won the college basketball championship last year either, and a lot of other people don't either.
And yet, if you look at message board posts yesterday, here and other Mississippi State boards, baseball posts dwarf basketball posts, and it’s not close.
I will go deeper than the SEC, no one outside of MSU cares who won the CWS in 2021.
We had a game at Vanderbilt today? I thought we were in Frisco, TX.
Maybe so... But I will say this: For those of us that like baseball AND like winning, having another season like last year is not fun. Most folks will agree with me that having a history of winning leads to a certain expectation. If we can't meet that, we need to consider a change.
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