Topic: Baseball Stadium

[herdfan129]

Just drop baseball and add Men’s Track. Problem solved.

[wasbarryb]

Just drop baseball and add Men’s Track. Problem solved.

Except then some are going to advocate for a separate purpose built track facility and/or training facility.  It just never seems to end.

[svherd]

If you really want to save money, drop womens basketball. That will never happen though

[wasbarryb]

If you really want to save money, drop womens basketball. That will never happen though

As long as there is Title IX, you'll have a very difficult time cutting women's sports.  Don't have to like it, but there's no way around it.

[bighat]

Have a little vision.  I can see us playing baseball in Charleston but I want our own stadium.  I want to have vision and dreams of being in one of the Power conferences.  I want Marshall to be in position to do what ever they want to do.  It will not happen in my life time but that is why it is called vision.

[MicDrass1]

Add triathlon

[parshall2marshall]

My opinion on the baseball situation have remained unchanged.  Spending $18-20 million on a facility is as unwise in 2019 as it is in 2021. 

We now have the land in control.  Put down a nice top D-1 playing surface, put in a quality clubhouse facility with a functional pressbox and premium seating for a few hundred (similar to our softball facility)... and that's it.  Spend $4 million, have a serviceable on campus facility like the Dot or the Vet, and call it a day.  Independent wooden bat leagues are not economic engines.  There are not enough travel ball quality facilities in Huntington around to utilize for large youth events.  We just need a nice little on-campus ball field to start and go from there.

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I am absolutely not a fan of the Appalachian Park option for baseball unless - the University makes an absolute commitment to have a noticeable presence in Charleston.  Open up a facility a block adjacent to the ballpark, find and build a partnership with Charleston Area Medical Center like we did with Cabell Huntington Hospital, engage the Clay Center with programming... try to 'own' exit 100(?) off I-64 there in Charleston.  If you want to build a significant presence in Charleston, then go all in.  Else, there's zero reason to ship baseball off-campus.

Someone asked my opinion years ago and my answer was basically the same money-saving idea, but using what is now the Soccer Field. But in retrospect I doubt there was sufficient room to implement that there without extreme creativity or sacrifice. An old acquaintance who had stopped to watch a game there ended up having to protect his Corvette from a HR ball with his bare hands, for example. In retrospect it all worked out for Soccer.

[elginherd]

Add triathlon

Hopefully you're kidding. This is not a NCAA sanctioned sport.

[MicDrass1]

Hopefully you're kidding. This is not a NCAA sanctioned sport.

Can be used for women's head count for Title 9 purposes.