Baseball @ UNT?

res1dg16 · October 15, 2002

I haven't heard anything and am not trying to start any rumors - but has the possibility of intercollegiate baseball at UNT ever come up?

Cerebus · October 15, 2002

I think RV would love to add it because of the lack of NT athletics during spring, but there are two things going against it. One, a womens sport would have to be added also to stay with Title IX compliance, and in the creation and upkeep of a diamond and it gets really expensive. Two, if a mans sports was to be added, it would be alot cheaper to add a mens soccer team, since we already have facilities they could use and the scholarship minimum is lower.

I for one would love to have UNT baseball as a scholarship sport.

NT75 · October 15, 2002

We've already got an amateur team in this area in the Texas Rangers

EagleChick03 · October 15, 2002

YEA FOR BASEBALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! bring on the baseball hotties

IronMan4 · October 15, 2002

I'm glad JayDub didn't say that about Heather Trout or this thread wouldv'e got locked down faster than that high school on Boston Public when there's a bomb threat.

CMJ · October 15, 2002

LOL!

Even though I wouldn't be around to see them play, I'd love to have baseball at North Texas. Hell we USED to have a team.

PlummMeanGreen · October 15, 2002

"Bes'ball has been veddy' good to me!" (whattisname' from the old SNL show).

Where would our men's baseball team play their games?

CMJ · October 15, 2002

Good question Plum, which is just one reson why we probably won't get a team.

PlummMeanGreen · October 15, 2002

CMJ, a fellow alum called me today and said you and I were running neck and neck for this board's most post. Harry called me from his cell phone this AM and told me whoever gets to 500 first wins an expense paid trip to Hawaii on him! (Just kiddin' Harry AND CMJ)

I think the Kids Korner thing in the summer gave me more posts than I needed to have. (Alright out there, no comment on that one)!

CMJ · October 15, 2002

Yeah, Plum I noticed I was gaining on you. I don't know how that happened, you were like over 200 posts ahead at one time I think. Maybe it was when I couldn't get a gig there for about a month...I had tons of free time.

PlummMeanGreen · October 15, 2002

My gig is a 9 to 6 deal every day and business is slow for this week but will pick back up real quick! Surely when we hit 500 there will be church bells, fireworks and maybe even a foreward pass from the UNT QB?

GMG!

CMJ · October 15, 2002

The entertainment industry is a bit less steady. Sometimes I work so much all I do is sleep and goto work for days or weeks on end...others I have more free time than I know what to do with.

Injun79 · October 16, 2002

Because of economics it probably won't happen, but I think it would be great for UNT to add baseball. There are just too many good JUCOs and high schoolers in your area for ya'll not to play.

UNTLifer · October 17, 2002

Because of economics it probably won't happen, but I think it would be great for UNT to add baseball. There are just too many good JUCOs and high schoolers in your area for ya'll not to play.

I emailed RV asking this question for my nephew, who is a senior on the Grapevine High School team. RV's reply was that UNT currently had a Club team. He didn't say much more which leads me to believe that this is not in his immediate plans. I must agree. There are bigger fish to fry at this time.

NT75 · October 17, 2002

Folks, we all know that men's baseball is an expensive proposition. Annual operating costs would be in the $250,000 - $300,000 range, plus the $3.5 mil to build a decent ballpark. So we can't look for it to happen anytime in the near future. The day we do ever decide to add hardball will be an indication that UNT is drawing the attendance in football and basketball and receiving the dontations from our tight fisted alums in the numbers necessary to fund our athletic department to the level it needs to be. RV said we should have a budget of $15 mil. $20 mil gets you to the Louisville level and then you can really start to do something with your programs.

NT80 · October 18, 2002

I don't see how UTA, SWT, ULM, many SLC schools, and most Texas junior colleges can fund and have baseball, and a major university with 30,000 students can't. I know the Title IX and $$ arguments, but so many of these other schools have it somehow, why not UNT?

UNTLifer · October 18, 2002

"Bes'ball has been veddy' good to me!" (whattisname' from the old SNL show).

Chico Esquella.

EagleChick03 · October 18, 2002

I don't see how UTA, SWT, ULM, many SLC schools, and most Texas junior colleges can fund and have baseball, and a major university with 30,000 students can't. I know the Title IX and $$ arguments, but so many of these other schools have it somehow, why not UNT?

This is exactly what I want to know....

My brother is a senior at Marcus high school where he plays varsity baseball and he is looking for colleges and it is reallllllly sad to me that he can't even consider UNT.