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What impact will this softball field upgrade have on the rugby field and what about parking??

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Glad for Cal softball. But Cal baseball was unfairly “cut” in 2011 by a bias/out of control AD, and only Cal baseball alums “saved” the program by raising 10+ million in 2 months (with a gun to its head) and baseball hads been forced to continue to raise 650,O00 per year (increasing each year) just to support scholarships etc, and now the NIL world is demanding more and more from baseball. Cal baseball (the male counterpart to Cal softball) could certainly use the same or similar investment from the university. The field is in need of many basic improvements to make us competitive in the tough ACC. Cal baseball is over 100 years old. We won the very 1st CWS in 1947 with Jackie Jensen roaming the outfield. We repeated in 57 but have not won since. We were 37-19 last year winning 20 of our last 24 games in the tough PAC12 but the east/south biased “selection committee” refused to grant Cal an “at large” berth: an outrageous example of favoritism in all sports. Now that we are part of the ACC (and therefore supported by ESPN) we should get much better treatment from any “selection committee”, but we must continue to get and keep the best players. We have seen 5 of our players selected in the 1st round of the MLB draft over just the last 5 years. Cal baseball is fantastic, but we have to find the money to keep it that way. Go Bears (‘72,73,74: Cal baseball).

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Money has become an increasing problem for college sports. The short sighted (and football focused) fans and athletes have been clamoring for atheletes to be paid for years now, and the repercussions of that are not only being felt in football/basketball, but more acutely in all other non-revenue generating sport.

I think the sad reality is that colleges won’t have any money left to sustain non-revenue programs after paying players in football and basketball.

Cal won’t give up football. And Title IX still exists. So non-revenue men’s sports will continue to get the short shaft. It’s a sad new reality.

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Thanks for the update.

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Dang, that’s a lotta dough for softball

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Investment. I wonder if it helps balance the Title 9 books?

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