MplsBison ' Wrote:  

(02-08-2017 12:35 PM)jacksfan29 Wrote:  SDSU will not be dropping baseball, ever. If NDSU drop the sport, and the SLC move away from baseball SDSU will be hooking up with the remaining SLC members who sponsor baseball to look for a conference to join as an affiliate.

That is SDSU's prerogative, to continue spending a ton of money to attract players from California and Arizona, to a climate with a built in competitive disadvantage, and spending another ton of money to fly the team to the southwest and southeast for most of the season, while hoping the weather holds out enough for some sloppy April and early May home games in Brookings.

NDSU does the exact same thing for the softball team. And that team will never be dropped .... because it has found a way to win. Not so, for whatever reason, with baseball.

None of the Dakota schools import many baseball players from the west or south. A handful at most. Most are from Minnesota or neighboring states. There are some pitchers that need development there, otherwise they would have headed south.

But NDSU gets most of their softball players from California. . .