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  1. On ‎8‎/‎2‎/‎2018 at 12:30 PM, F250 said:

     That same season my son's 12U team played the Banditos Black 12U team that ended up winning the National Youth League Champion, a tournament between all the different youth league champions. I think the Banditos represented either Super Series or USSSA that year. The difference between the two was night and day.

    2012?

  2. 1 hour ago, Irwin F Fletcher said:

    Witt is an outstanding player. He does have strong Texas ties, but I agree that he most likely gets drafted very high in a couple of years.

    his dad was a 1st round pick in 1994

    His grandfather runs the Kyle Chapman program and is a Texas alum

  3. 1 hour ago, Jhawk said:

    It leaked earlier this spring, after they cancelled the spring game because of not having a center on the roster, that our season ticket holders had plummeted and we had less than 5000 season tickets sold as of early May.  I asked the head of the Williams Fund at our breakfast if our reported attendance numbers are accurate and he smirked, let out a chuckle, and then said "no".  We realistically probably averaged about 15k in ticket sales last year.  Probably 7-10k through the gates over the course of the season. 

    That is all part of the mismanagement of the AD.  It isn't a chicken or egg thing as much as people think.  We could have top 3 season ticket sales in the conference but we took away the benefit of basketball seat selection points for having football tickets.  When they tweaked our point system they effectively killed the last revenue stream KU football had to offer.  The truth is, we aren't going to clear the attendance numbers required by the NCAA to remain a D1 program this year (15k per game).  We might not have cleared it last year.

    Baylor is the second worst in attendance at 43k a game.  Think about that.  If we had each fan spend $50 per trip to the stadium (ticket/merch/concessions) and just averaged what baylor averages then we are leaving $8mm a season on the table (20k fans per game using the reported numbers).  That number easily doubles with a decent team because donations would easily be $8mm more a year just because of football.  Then on top of that, if we became a 7-8 win team every other year, we'd probably see spending more like $75-$100 per patron.  We are probably leaving about $20-25mm on the table EACH YEAR by just mismanaging football.  That would put us up in the top 20 budgets for an AD and we'd probably be knocking on the door of the top 15 or 10 given the economies of growing the pie.  It is borderline criminal what has been done to the KU football program.  There really should be an investigation.

    what were the attendance numbers when the fat man was still coaching KU

  4. 23 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

    You leave Dedeaux's successor in the spot too long, then replace him with his son-in-law who has virtually no coaching experience, and then when you fire him, you give the interim head job even though he had losing record as interim, have him go through another losing season, and then fire him right before the next season starts and promote one of his assistants, who had no head coaching experience and well... he's been in the job six years now with one regional trip. 

    Of course none of this happens unless your AD is headed up by Mike Garrett and Pat Haden, two guys who only care about football.

    now that is an answer.  rep sent

  5. 4 hours ago, Js1 said:

    Update:

    Texas appearances: 36 (1st)
    Combined appearances of other 7 schools: 52

    Texas CWS wins: 85 (1st)
    Combined CWS wins of other 7 schools: 73

    Texas national finals appearances: 12 (2nd)
    Combines national finals appearances of other 7 schools:  9

    National titles: 6 (2nd)
    Combined national titles of other 7 schools: 3 (2 for Beavs, 1 for Gators)

    Had to look up the records to see who was first in titles, I forgot that USC used to have a good baseball program.  How do you burn down that type of program?

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