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Gray_Area:

--- Quote from: Le Chuck on February 04, 2013, 08:54:48 pm ---So if you can't win don't play? Yep, that'd be teaching a valuable lesson.   ::)


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Sometimes it's a winning solution. Just leave that ---fudgesicle--- and do something else more interesting/enjoyable/fulfilling. Or just less hassle.


Sports in school was a pasttime. Now it's a money maker. Or not.

hypernova:

--- Quote from: Le Chuck on February 04, 2013, 08:54:48 pm ---So if you can't win don't play? Yep, that'd be teaching a valuable lesson.   ::)

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They're not 4 years old.  They're in college.  Does the coach take the team out to pizza after every game regardless of outcome, and do they all get a participation trophy at the end of the year?

And yes, if I was a part of a college that can't win, I wouldn't want them to play and waste my dollars to do so.  Just look at the professionals on teams that happen to actually win on occasion.  A few years of it, and they're ready to skip town.  Can you blame them?  Would you want to participate in sport where you regularly don't win year in, year out?  Would you be willing to pay to watch your local team lose every single game?  Losing all the time wears us down.

...Unless all these athletic dollars are coming from somewhere other than the tuition being paid by the students.  If it is, then my main point is rendered moot, and they should have at it.  Build another 10 year losing streak and go for the record.  But I don't see how they have a self-sustaining sports program if they can't ever win.  Money's coming from somewhere.

Le Chuck:
Maybe it's a values issue.

I value heart and willingness to try despite the odds. If I join a team that hasn't been winning I'm going to try and start. Without knowledge of the intricacies of the program I wouldn't disband it based on a W/L record as that presupposes that collegiate sports are only of value when the team wins.

I contend you learn as much through loss than through victory. 

ChadTower:

Almost no college sports programs are self sustaining.  And I'm going to guess that number is nearly zero for DIII programs.

That money could be coming from boosters as you suggested.  It wouldn't be much effor tto call the athletic department and ask them. 

Baseball really isn't much money to run.  Equipment lasts for years, field maintenance isn't high if cost is shared across multiple progams as it usually is, and DIII programs don't do a lot of traveling.  It's not like we're talking hockey.

Gray_Area:

--- Quote from: Le Chuck on February 07, 2013, 07:28:27 am ---
I contend you learn as much through loss than through victory. 

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People at large *have* to fail to learn a lot of ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---. At the very least, they don't feel worthy if they haven't worked at and ---fouled up beyond all recognition--- up things. Poor sods.

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