(11-17-2021 01:11 AM)mjs Wrote:  

(11-17-2021 12:15 AM)ez272 Wrote:  Our baseball facility hurts us. We are competitive in the belt with what we have, but it is bad. If we could just build a new park at the Coleman complex. Dont understand why that isn't a priority.

I love our baseball field. Maybe it's because I remember what it looked like before Gary Hogan began fixing it up. It's a beautiful place to watch a game on a nice spring day. No, it is certainly not a baseball "stadium" like they have at ULL or Coastal Carolina. But it certainly more than meets our needs. The closest we have ever come to filling it was the exhibition game against the hogs and it wasn't even full then. If the Little Rock community suddenly decided to support UALR athletics, I'm sure we could work out a deal with the Travelers to play a majority of our games at Dickie Stephens. We play almost 2 months of our season, before they even start their season. Chasse Conque actually showed me the architectural plans for a stadium at the Coleman Complex. Looked really nice. Just don't know where will get the millions to pay for it and I honestly don't see the need for it. I really doubt the baseball fields, now that Wichita State has left, are much better in the MoValley.

Well, you are currently seeing the results of what happens when you run off a dynamic AD who had visions for the program. Conque was a fund raiser and would have gotten a baseball stadium done. Now we seem to just be waiting to get our execution date!

But saying the MVC probably doesn’t have baseball fields better than ours really undercuts your statement that the MVC isn’t basketball centric. What else are they if not basketball centric? Obviously by your own statement not baseball centric. And why would you think that Loyola moving to the A10 and the possibility of Missouri State moving up to FBS at some point make the MVC any less basketball centric?

And if UMKC moves to the MVC, the Summit offers one team a bus ride away to play. Everyone else in that league is a plane ride, or a freezing nightmare bus trip!