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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Tuesday, September 27, 2011Daily Titan: Athletics barely hanging on to Division I Status
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Posted: September 27, 2011 at 10:05 PM | 22 comment(s)
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1. Benji Gil Gamesh VII - The Opt-Out Awakens Posted: September 27, 2011 at 10:59 PM (#3939538)Is Cal State-Fullerton the number one college in terms of baseball being dominant in relation to other sports? Maybe CSU-Long Beach and UC-Riverside as well?
I'd say Wichita State for the non-California division.
They've been to a Sweet Sixteen recently in basketball, so I don't think they qualify.
That said, university bureaucracy and administrative payroll should be targets #1-99.
And obviously, paying to educate the students we admit would be a better starting point.
What is the motivation for requiring 50 full scholarships? What if your seven sports are golf, equestrian, sailing, vintage car racing, polo, skiing and croquet and you have all rich kids that don't need the money? The NCAA remains on my list of worst organizations.
How many of us are on here, anyway? (Long Beach in my case.)
Both Fullerton and Long Beach dropped football in the early 90's during another spate of bad budgetary times - although our troubles then seem quaint through today's eyes. I don't know about Fullerton, but we get periodic "bring back football" movements, which are never going to amount to anything. Football at those two campuses never came remotely close to drawing enough to be anything other than a money sink; it may be precisely not having football that has allowed Long Beach and Fullerton to put resources into sports like baseball and volleyball. On the other hand, not having football is a lot of scholarships not given - that's also part of it.
One item: Fullerton's long-time president just announced his retirement, and the campus is (or will soon be) searching for his replacement. My guess is that any irreversible decisions about athletics will wind up on the desk of the new guy.
That said, university bureaucracy and administrative payroll should be targets #1-99.
You do know that whoever Fullerton hires to be that new president is going to want $400K/year, just like the new guy in San Diego, right? Just telling you to be ready for it. There are something like 5 CSU campuses that need new presidents, all at once.
Teams ask their star players to take a pay cut in order to fit better players on the payroll. Schools need to do the same thing for their admin staff now.
Also, I agree with Ned. Chancellor Reed is a nightmare and our local campus Administration is bloated. Up 25% in 7 years under our new President.
Presidential salaries are on a slope up as faculty salaries are flat. The $100,000 boost the SD guy got is just the tip of the iceberg. Reed is trying to eliminate campus visits and reference checks (!) for Presidential candidates, to protect their privacy. And give them $400K per year. And hire them unilaterally.
Anyway, I'm home now. Need to stop thinking about CSUB.
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But the drop in state support for the CSU has been stunning. We're not talking about "cuts" meaning failing to increase at the inflation rate or the population growth rate. No, we're talking about the actual dollars from the state budget going into the CSU being approximately cut in half over the last few years. Which we've made up for by raising tuition. (We finally got honest and are using the "T" word rather than calling them "fees.") Which now means that the tuition payed by a class full of freshmen in a fully-enrolled section will just about pay for the marginal cost of hiring a part-time lecturer to teach that class. Which means that state funding isn't as tightly connected to enrollment as it used to be, even though the tuition still comes nowhere close to paying for the whole operation.
I don't know what tuition is now, but it was $1,000 per quarter when I was there, $3,000 per year.
Those were the days. Go ahead, look it up - if you dare.
Hey No. 11, good luck setting the bats on fire. Are you the only one who doesn't know they use metal bats in college?
Sounds like Texas. I direct a doctoral program, and I spend much of my time being assessed, critiqued, and asked for "improvement strategies" by a flock of administrators who have never been involved in doctoral education; but of course they know much better than I do what I need to be doing :) Much of the "assessment" consists of filing meaningless reports entirely for the sake of filing said reports.
Rice plays football in Texas; I don't think baseball will ever be bigger at any school where that is the case
You're correct; Rice plays great baseball and lousy football, and Rice football still draws far more fan interest. It's just that they've clearly cultivated their baseball program, and not yet (or not been able to) sell their souls to improve football to TCU-like heights.
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