Bring back the baseball program

[PokesArePeopleToo]

It has been way too long.

[WestWYOPoke]

Got 3-4 million bucks laying around? Half for baseball, half for women's programs.

While it would be fun, just doesn't seem realistic.

[Wyokie]

Plus you would only see Wyoming play at home for only the last half of the season due to all the fun weather the state gets.

[OrediggerPoke]

Got 3-4 million bucks laying around? Half for baseball, half for women's programs.

While it would be fun, just doesn't seem realistic.

Triple that figure at a minimum.

[LanderPoke]

We need a state of the art indoor facility lol

[WestWYOPoke]

Got 3-4 million bucks laying around? Half for baseball, half for women's programs.

While it would be fun, just doesn't seem realistic.

Triple that figure at a minimum.

I was being very conservative. I suspect you are closer to the real number, but you could probably do a bare bones program for $1.5-2 million. Even that isn't cheap.

[PokesArePeopleToo]

So North Dakota State can have a baseball program but we can't? Would beat the hell out of golf or women's soccer.

[OrediggerPoke]

So North Dakota State can have a baseball program but we can't? Would beat the hell out of golf or women's soccer.

Women's soccer and Women's golf might be the most successful athletics' programs at the University right now.

Wyoming needs to add women's wrestling (the fastest growing collegiate sport). The extra costs are very minor because the facilities already exist.

[laxwyo]

So North Dakota State can have a baseball program but we can't? Would beat the hell out of golf or women's soccer.

Women's soccer and Women's golf might be the most successful athletics' programs at the University right now.

Wyoming needs to add women's wrestling (the fastest growing collegiate sport). The extra costs are very minor because the facilities already exist.

yeah, and just get a failed male wrestler to "identify" as a woman and we'll be set to win titles.

[PokesArePeopleToo]

So North Dakota State can have a baseball program but we can't? Would beat the hell out of golf or women's soccer.

Women's soccer and Women's golf might be the most successful athletics' programs at the University right now.

Wyoming needs to add women's wrestling (the fastest growing collegiate sport). The extra costs are very minor because the facilities already exist.

Yeah but WG and WS are two sports nobody cares about. Bring back baseball and cut some of the fat off of some programs that are only in a state of existence because of compliance issues. Drop one and bring back baseball. NDSU has baseball and so should we. You want to talk with me about a program that would go over huge if we had a facility on campus? Build a 3,000 seat ice arena and watch people fighting each other for tickets with sell out crowds all year for Wyoming Cowboys hockey. Guaranteed.

[OrediggerPoke]

Women's soccer and Women's golf might be the most successful athletics' programs at the University right now.

Wyoming needs to add women's wrestling (the fastest growing collegiate sport). The extra costs are very minor because the facilities already exist.

Yeah but WG and WS are two sports nobody cares about. Bring back baseball and cut some of the fat off of some programs that are only in a state of existence because of compliance issues. Drop one and bring back baseball. NDSU has baseball and so should we. You want to talk with me about a program that would go over huge if we had a facility on campus? Build a 3,000 seat ice arena and watch people fighting each other for tickets with sell out crowds all year for Wyoming Cowboys hockey. Guaranteed.

This is nonsensical. We can’t drop a woman’s sport to bring another men’s sport. Title IX is federal law and the university cannot exist on its own without federal support including opportunities for federal loans for students and federal research grants.

D1 Hockey facility costs would be even more expensive than baseball. We can all come up with pie in the sky ideas of how cool it would be to watch D1 hockey and indoor baseball but absent the largest donations in university history, these cannot fiscally happen.