2026 Baseball Mega Thread

[311neers]

The reports of the demise of SBC baseball was greatly exaggerated.
Good luck Troy. Hopefully, you win a few games along the way.

Not sure about an "arms race" to ballpark expansion. Many of the stadiums below power schools and many power schools do not sell out until the regionals and super regionals. Not sure you do that just for two weekends of the year. Some schools in the SEC do well throughout the season.
If I were a team, that wanted to win more, I would do more behind the scenes for the overall player experience to attract better players. I get that probably means more fannies in seats to pay for those ideas. However, not sure I would be doing major expansion for two weekends a year.

Just in our conference alone…

Marshall- brand new park
ODU- brand new park
Stink-major renovations
Ark State- major renovations/expansion
Ga State- brand new park but they never really had one.

We know Coastal and USM improve theirs every so often.

I’m sure Troy will expand after this run.

Not sure where all the money comes from outside of Marshall- I believe that was a P3 deal (public private partnership).

To your point- we are taking the scholarships/NIL route to see where this thing goes for now.

I took your point from a different perspective. I thought you meant we have a decent ballpark and will make renovations to to expand seating which impacts available seating..

Other than Stink, all the other ballparks mentioned were crappy ballparks IMHO if we are being honest with ourselves. I feel those changes were a necessity versus an enhancement in order to actually have credibility to say you are a D1 baseball program. Some sarcasm here ..but some serious as have been to all but arky st. From TV viewing, it needed to be upgraded.
With that said, congratulations to the schools that have been able to get money to upgrade facilities

That is very true- most of those needed improvements anyway.
Stink improved theirs and then had their worst year ever! Ha! I love it. Spent big money and then lost big.

Our park is nice and light years better than where it was 10 years ago!

[JTApps1]

The reports of the demise of SBC baseball was greatly exaggerated.
Good luck Troy. Hopefully, you win a few games along the way.

Not sure about an "arms race" to ballpark expansion. Many of the stadiums below power schools and many power schools do not sell out until the regionals and super regionals. Not sure you do that just for two weekends of the year. Some schools in the SEC do well throughout the season.
If I were a team, that wanted to win more, I would do more behind the scenes for the overall player experience to attract better players. I get that probably means more fannies in seats to pay for those ideas. However, not sure I would be doing major expansion for two weekends a year.

Just in our conference alone…

Marshall- brand new park
ODU- brand new park
Stink-major renovations
Ark State- major renovations/expansion
Ga State- brand new park but they never really had one.

We know Coastal and USM improve theirs every so often.

I’m sure Troy will expand after this run.

Not sure where all the money comes from outside of Marshall- I believe that was a P3 deal (public private partnership).

To your point- we are taking the scholarships/NIL route to see where this thing goes for now.

Troy just completed a major renovation of theirs last year. ULM made some significant upgrades a couple years ago, and I believe USA is talking about renovations to an already solid facility. Incoming program LT has a very nice and relatively new place as well after a hurricane destroyed their old one a few years back.

[AppinVA]

We do have that drone picture of the green grass contrasted against the fall leaves that keeps getting posted.

[311neers]

Both games so far today have been phenomenal. Gawgia late inning win and Heels win in bottom of 9th. Great time of year

I wouldn't mind us moving the fences in 10' all around the park. It's pretty dang deep compared to other facilities.
Just watching Georgia and Miss State hit 21 homers was exciting (most of those were homers in any park).
Bring the fences in and make it more of a launching pad than it already is, chicks dig the long ball.