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One point of disagreement by Otter

First, thank you for your perspective as a former player. That is quite welcome around here.

Regarding the money ND spends or doesn't spend on baseball, it is incorrect that there are "lots of other Power 5 baseball programs" that are making money, thus able to spend more on the program.

I just looked at a bunch of different articles about college baseball and budgets and it is difficult to find definitive up to date numbers, but there are probably less than 6 baseball programs in the NCAA that turn even a modest profit. In the SEC, only LSU consistently makes money. A&M and MSU break even. The other programs, including Florida, lose 1-2 million each year.

UVA, which is a good baseball school in a warm weather state loses money every year.

ND has plenty of money and the fact that baseball is a non-revenue sport shouldn't mean we cannot invest where we need to and compete.