Baseball Season Preview: Rutgers Baseball
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It's so embarrassing to see our complex as compared to schools like James Madison and Southern Miss...
Yes we absolutely need lights and a scoreboard of quality.Like within no more than one seasons. Then a real 2000-3000 seat grandstand and press box. With the addition of a real clubhouse and lockerroom we would have a quality division 1 facility. It is really not much too ask. Fraizer stadium needs to happen.
Can we have someplace that sells food and Rutgers merchandise? Heck, Purple Park in Howell has a place that looks like it is run by Mario Batali compared to what Rutgers Baseball offers.
Not saying we have to duplicate the stadiums at South Carolina, Arkansas, Texas A & M, Penn State, etc., but I can not even imagine what recruits, parents, and high school coaches think when they see our present facility. And no more high school scoreboard !:Rutgers:Baseball:
Not saying we have to duplicate the stadiums at South Carolina, Arkansas, Texas A & M, Penn State, etc., but I can not even imagine what recruits, parents, and high school coaches think when they see our present facility. And no more high school scoreboard !:Rutgers:Baseball:
But but but I love bob mulcahy and he was so great. Our savior who paved for all sports. Good lord what a joke. U can thank him personally for our baseball and softball facilities.
Penn State has a nice park and draws 500-1,000 a game. Softball, maybe 500-750. Cry about Mulcahy all you want, but if he didn’t hire Schiano and spend all of his dough on football, Rutgers would be in the AAC or worse. And then the facilities would be perpetual suckitude. The only path to the B1G money and eventually respectable facilities for the non-revs was football. Deal with it.
Cause he squandered multiple opportunities to upgrade these facilities. Not to mention the period of 1999 - 2004 were some of our best teams and he did zero to capitalize on the opportunity to fundraise off great seasons. He essentially buried these two programs.
We’ve all accepted that football is king. But NJ has great baseball and softball and takes a lot of pride in their high school programs. So far we’ve missed a golden opportunity to make NJSIAA’s championship weekend revolve around a RU complex in Livingston campus.
Fundraise at a meaningful level off of a winning baseball program? You’re kidding, right? RU baseball could win the B1G and make it to the second weekend of the NCAA and the Garden State would scratch its belly and yawn. Sorry, but that’s the reality.
UNC and Duke have beautiful facilities and averaged 1,600 and 600 a game a couple years ago.
Educate yourself about the benefits of better facilities - https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/downloads/dn39x249s
What do UNC and duke have to do with this?
No one cares cause we’ve created that problem ourselves. So what’s ur solution? Drop the programs ?
No one cares cause we’ve created that problem ourselves. So what’s ur solution? Drop the programs ?
Do all the other programs mentioned here charge admission? I haven’t been to a Rutgers baseball game in 4 or 5 years — admission was free. FGCU, the local college for me these days, charges admission and has wonderful facilities.
The recruit locally model/paradigm does not work in high-level Div-1 athletics unless you are landing most of the elite local talent. That ship has sailed.
No one cares at almost all P5 schools whether you have a beautiful facility or not. I believe that baseball is a money losing program everywhere. A better facility will lead to better recruits and maybe a few hundred more fans. And hopefully more wins. But for someone to have suggested that RU could have fundraised off a couple good seasons is ridiculous.
The solution is to donate to RU Athletics now and hope that Schiano 2.0 is a success and a winning football program sells out the SHI House, attracts more corporate donors and creates a fundraising momentum to upgrade all RU facilities.
this is pure loser mentality and contributes to why we are where we are. There are plenty of deep pockets across this state. It’s a matter of whether or not there are people in place to convince these people to reach in. I wasn’t particularly familiar with the Rodkins but someone inspired them to build one hell of a facility that we were lacking
