2024 college baseball/softball thread

the kind that have a chance to win a fifth and sixth straight national title

how much more money per year are they getting now in the sec?

 

I guess, but at some point doesn't there have to be a financial reckoning? OTOH, the college sports bubble has supposed to be busting for the last 30 years.

 

you responded before I edited but what’s the difference in yearly revenue from sec money?

 

That I don't know. The department will have more money. But that won't be softball revenue.

 

also a according to that like, the athletic department ended up making a profit

If they were in the hole that softball budget would be cut

 

Yeah, the football program makes everybody healthy.

 

Right but it covers the cost of the softball shortfall.

I will be interested to see what the numbers are for this past year -- they opened their new stadium that is double capacity of their old one. That might cover a million of that loss

 

OU played 29 games at its new stadium. I don't know what tickets cost but at just $10 per ticket for those extra seats and just $10 per person on concessions, at minimum that's an extra 1.1 million

 

That's gross profit, which doesn't account for expenses. What might the net be?

 

FWIW, Jim Schlossnagle denounced them right at the start of his postgame presser.

 

Day 3 must have been a bullpen day for Team Drama in Omaha. Noles weren’t really challenged and Vols about to salt this one away.

 

I'm sure the expanded stadium calls for an expanded work force. Higher maintenance costs. Debt service.

Are Oklahoma's concessions in-house? If they contract them out, they're sure not getting 100 cents on the dollar.