2026 Baseball Mega Thread

[311neers]

With the money coming from ?

Alumni.
Maybe take a dollar or two from Football.

A couple of us are trying to set up a call with Kermit to see where we can assist/gauge needs.

The program has had a few guys that made some decent money over the past 10-15 years playing professionally. Could be a start. There might be enough interest now to take advantage of a solid past few years.

Are those guys more likely to give one time gifts versus annual investments? Outside of Springs, I can’t think of anyone making needle moving money.

No clue ands that's a great question. Hopefully they've made a call to him. Unfortunately, we know the facilities battle. That is a big chunk of money.
I'm not sure baseball needs "life changing" money though to compete annually. Just $100k could go a long way. Shoot, maybe $50k? I honestly have no idea what our current NIL budget is.

Arrowood played some solid years and made some decent money.
Jaylin Davis bounced between levels for 8 years.
A couple guys currently doing well in the minors.
Crespo probably making good money. Marcello still involved in baseball.

There are other baseball alumni that do well for themselves that we could tap into. A lot in Med Sales, Cheerwine family lineage, custom home builders...etc. Pretty sure a current players family is a bulk of the donations right now too, ha.

[AppSt94]

With the money coming from ?

Alumni.
Maybe take a dollar or two from Football.

A couple of us are trying to set up a call with Kermit to see where we can assist/gauge needs.

The program has had a few guys that made some decent money over the past 10-15 years playing professionally. Could be a start. There might be enough interest now to take advantage of a solid past few years.

Are those guys more likely to give one time gifts versus annual investments? Outside of Springs, I can’t think of anyone making needle moving money.

No clue ands that's a great question. Hopefully they've made a call to him. Unfortunately, we know the facilities battle. That is a big chunk of money.
I'm not sure baseball needs "life changing" money though to compete annually. Just $100k could go a long way. Shoot, maybe $50k? I honestly have no idea what our current NIL budget is.

Arrowood played some solid years and made some decent money.
Jaylin Davis bounced between levels for 8 years.
A couple guys currently doing well in the minors.
Crespo probably making good money. Marcello still involved in baseball.

There are other baseball alumni that do well for themselves that we could tap into. A lot in Med Sales, Cheerwine family lineage, custom home builders...etc. Pretty sure a current players family is a bulk of the donations right now too, ha.

I am of the opinion that baseball is unique in that funding a full ride for a kid would be enough of an enticement than NIL.

[AppDawg]

With the money coming from ?

Alumni.
Maybe take a dollar or two from Football.

A couple of us are trying to set up a call with Kermit to see where we can assist/gauge needs.

The program has had a few guys that made some decent money over the past 10-15 years playing professionally. Could be a start. There might be enough interest now to take advantage of a solid past few years.

Are those guys more likely to give one time gifts versus annual investments? Outside of Springs, I can’t think of anyone making needle moving money.

No clue ands that's a great question. Hopefully they've made a call to him. Unfortunately, we know the facilities battle. That is a big chunk of money.
I'm not sure baseball needs "life changing" money though to compete annually. Just $100k could go a long way. Shoot, maybe $50k? I honestly have no idea what our current NIL budget is.

Arrowood played some solid years and made some decent money.
Jaylin Davis bounced between levels for 8 years.
A couple guys currently doing well in the minors.
Crespo probably making good money. Marcello still involved in baseball.

There are other baseball alumni that do well for themselves that we could tap into. A lot in Med Sales, Cheerwine family lineage, custom home builders...etc. Pretty sure a current players family is a bulk of the donations right now too, ha.

I am of the opinion that baseball is unique in that funding a full ride for a kid would be enough of an enticement than NIL.

Well the historical 11.5 schollies for Baseball just increased to 30 or 35 (do not recall what the new roster size limit is). We must start there.

[AppSt94]

Alumni.
Maybe take a dollar or two from Football.

A couple of us are trying to set up a call with Kermit to see where we can assist/gauge needs.

The program has had a few guys that made some decent money over the past 10-15 years playing professionally. Could be a start. There might be enough interest now to take advantage of a solid past few years.

Are those guys more likely to give one time gifts versus annual investments? Outside of Springs, I can’t think of anyone making needle moving money.

No clue ands that's a great question. Hopefully they've made a call to him. Unfortunately, we know the facilities battle. That is a big chunk of money.
I'm not sure baseball needs "life changing" money though to compete annually. Just $100k could go a long way. Shoot, maybe $50k? I honestly have no idea what our current NIL budget is.

Arrowood played some solid years and made some decent money.
Jaylin Davis bounced between levels for 8 years.
A couple guys currently doing well in the minors.
Crespo probably making good money. Marcello still involved in baseball.

There are other baseball alumni that do well for themselves that we could tap into. A lot in Med Sales, Cheerwine family lineage, custom home builders...etc. Pretty sure a current players family is a bulk of the donations right now too, ha.

I am of the opinion that baseball is unique in that funding a full ride for a kid would be enough of an enticement than NIL.

Well the historical 11.5 schollies for Baseball just increased to 30 or 35 (do not recall what the new roster size limit is). We must start there.

Agree.

[311neers]

Are those guys more likely to give one time gifts versus annual investments? Outside of Springs, I can’t think of anyone making needle moving money.

No clue ands that's a great question. Hopefully they've made a call to him. Unfortunately, we know the facilities battle. That is a big chunk of money.
I'm not sure baseball needs "life changing" money though to compete annually. Just $100k could go a long way. Shoot, maybe $50k? I honestly have no idea what our current NIL budget is.

Arrowood played some solid years and made some decent money.
Jaylin Davis bounced between levels for 8 years.
A couple guys currently doing well in the minors.
Crespo probably making good money. Marcello still involved in baseball.

There are other baseball alumni that do well for themselves that we could tap into. A lot in Med Sales, Cheerwine family lineage, custom home builders...etc. Pretty sure a current players family is a bulk of the donations right now too, ha.

I am of the opinion that baseball is unique in that funding a full ride for a kid would be enough of an enticement than NIL.

Well the historical 11.5 schollies for Baseball just increased to 30 or 35 (do not recall what the new roster size limit is). We must start there.

Agree.

Forgot you can fund 30 or 35 full schollies now.
So $20k/pop on average for a full ride (out of state mostly) for 30 guys? $600k annually?
Now that seems steep but maybe doable. Maybe we start with trying to fund 20 full schollies haha.

Anyone know how many we funded this year or is still the 11.5 amount?

[Saint3333]

Wonder how the high schoolers through Sophomores are thinking about being the 30th guy on a roster at an SEC school versus starter at an SBC school?

If the SEC starts spending $100k on their 30th guy I doubt we see a Southern Miss hosting a regional again.

[BUTCH1991]

With the money coming from ?

Alumni.
Maybe take a dollar or two from Football.

A couple of us are trying to set up a call with Kermit to see where we can assist/gauge needs.

The program has had a few guys that made some decent money over the past 10-15 years playing professionally. Could be a start. There might be enough interest now to take advantage of a solid past few years.

Are those guys more likely to give one time gifts versus annual investments? Outside of Springs, I can’t think of anyone making needle moving money.

No clue ands that's a great question. Hopefully they've made a call to him. Unfortunately, we know the facilities battle. That is a big chunk of money.
I'm not sure baseball needs "life changing" money though to compete annually. Just $100k could go a long way. Shoot, maybe $50k? I honestly have no idea what our current NIL budget is.

Arrowood played some solid years and made some decent money.
Jaylin Davis bounced between levels for 8 years.
A couple guys currently doing well in the minors.
Crespo probably making good money. Marcello still involved in baseball.

There are other baseball alumni that do well for themselves that we could tap into. A lot in Med Sales, Cheerwine family lineage, custom home builders...etc. Pretty sure a current players family is a bulk of the donations right now too, ha.

I am of the opinion that baseball is unique in that funding a full ride for a kid would be enough of an enticement than NIL.

100% accurate. If we could fund all the scholarships, it would go a long way to help retain guys

[AppSt94]

No clue ands that's a great question. Hopefully they've made a call to him. Unfortunately, we know the facilities battle. That is a big chunk of money.
I'm not sure baseball needs "life changing" money though to compete annually. Just $100k could go a long way. Shoot, maybe $50k? I honestly have no idea what our current NIL budget is.

Arrowood played some solid years and made some decent money.
Jaylin Davis bounced between levels for 8 years.
A couple guys currently doing well in the minors.
Crespo probably making good money. Marcello still involved in baseball.

There are other baseball alumni that do well for themselves that we could tap into. A lot in Med Sales, Cheerwine family lineage, custom home builders...etc. Pretty sure a current players family is a bulk of the donations right now too, ha.

I am of the opinion that baseball is unique in that funding a full ride for a kid would be enough of an enticement than NIL.

Well the historical 11.5 schollies for Baseball just increased to 30 or 35 (do not recall what the new roster size limit is). We must start there.

Agree.

Forgot you can fund 30 or 35 full schollies now.
So $20k/pop on average for a full ride (out of state mostly) for 30 guys? $600k annually?
Now that seems steep but maybe doable. Maybe we start with trying to fund 20 full schollies haha.

Anyone know how many we funded this year or is still the 11.5 amount?

I think you are looking more in the ballpark of $30k per. I’m not sure how many we were funding this year.

[Boone Goon]

I love it when people start spending other people's money...If you believe its the right thing to do, send your checks to:
Yosef Club
ASU Box 32102
Boone, NC 28608

FTR: our current overall baseball funding is at the 40th percentile within the SBC, and higher than the numbers you're speculating.

[Mountain Man]

With the money coming from ?

Alumni.
Maybe take a dollar or two from Football.

A couple of us are trying to set up a call with Kermit to see where we can assist/gauge needs.

The program has had a few guys that made some decent money over the past 10-15 years playing professionally. Could be a start. There might be enough interest now to take advantage of a solid past few years.

Are those guys more likely to give one time gifts versus annual investments? Outside of Springs, I can’t think of anyone making needle moving money.

No clue ands that's a great question. Hopefully they've made a call to him. Unfortunately, we know the facilities battle. That is a big chunk of money.
I'm not sure baseball needs "life changing" money though to compete annually. Just $100k could go a long way. Shoot, maybe $50k? I honestly have no idea what our current NIL budget is.

Arrowood played some solid years and made some decent money.
Jaylin Davis bounced between levels for 8 years.
A couple guys currently doing well in the minors.
Crespo probably making good money. Marcello still involved in baseball.

There are other baseball alumni that do well for themselves that we could tap into. A lot in Med Sales, Cheerwine family lineage, custom home builders...etc. Pretty sure a current players family is a bulk of the donations right now too, ha.

Outreach to alumni baseball players is nonexistent. Pollard had the dugout club and was really good at bringing people in - which obviously is one of the reasons why he is where he is now.

[311neers]

I love it when people start spending other people's money...If you believe its the right thing to do, send your checks to:
Yosef Club
ASU Box 32102
Boone, NC 28608

FTR: our current overall baseball funding is at the 40th percentile within the SBC, and higher than the numbers you're speculating.

Have heard the same. Sounds like we’ve made some strides in funding more scholarships. Still some work to do.

[JTApps1]

With the money coming from ?

Alumni.
Maybe take a dollar or two from Football.

A couple of us are trying to set up a call with Kermit to see where we can assist/gauge needs.

The program has had a few guys that made some decent money over the past 10-15 years playing professionally. Could be a start. There might be enough interest now to take advantage of a solid past few years.

Are those guys more likely to give one time gifts versus annual investments? Outside of Springs, I can’t think of anyone making needle moving money.

No clue ands that's a great question. Hopefully they've made a call to him. Unfortunately, we know the facilities battle. That is a big chunk of money.
I'm not sure baseball needs "life changing" money though to compete annually. Just $100k could go a long way. Shoot, maybe $50k? I honestly have no idea what our current NIL budget is.

Arrowood played some solid years and made some decent money.
Jaylin Davis bounced between levels for 8 years.
A couple guys currently doing well in the minors.
Crespo probably making good money. Marcello still involved in baseball.

There are other baseball alumni that do well for themselves that we could tap into. A lot in Med Sales, Cheerwine family lineage, custom home builders...etc. Pretty sure a current players family is a bulk of the donations right now too, ha.

Outreach to alumni baseball players is nonexistent. Pollard had the dugout club and was really good at bringing people in - which obviously is one of the reasons why he is where he is now.

Cobb killed the Dugout Club because he was worried it would take money away from the YC. What an idiot.

[appvette]

Watching Southern Miss host a regional with a huge crowd makes me sad / jealous. That would be awesome.

[hapapp]

Host Auburn trails sub .500 Milwaukee 10-0.

[Stonewall]

The So Miss environment is fantastic. IF we were ever at that level could we replicate it ? Would have to be in Hickory. Elsewhere, upsets are brewing.

[Bootsy]

The So Miss environment is fantastic. IF we were ever at that level could we replicate it ? Would have to be in Hickory. Elsewhere, upsets are brewing.

Hickory would make it so much easier to get folks from CLT and The Triad involved. Way more butts in seats.

[Stonewall]

The ability to house and feed the teams too. S Miss down three going into the bottom of the ninth . EZU and the Vols tied in the 13th.

[Stonewall]

There’s your first big upset.

[BambooRdApp]

EasyU / Tenn game may never end

[BambooRdApp]

Golden Eagles in the loser's bracket