Wisconsin

[Charlesroast]

Found an interesting article regarding Wisconsin and B1G baseball. Basically they dropped the sport when money was tight and apparently have no interest in reversing that position despite positive cash in the B1G and general increase in college baseball. I believe Barry has distinction of representing the only Power 5 non participant in baseball. This is a detriment to B1G baseball IMO.

 

[mk30]

Barry is all about Barry and his football program. Makes him a perfect partner for the idiot commissioner.

 

[ptrich]

Found an interesting article regarding Wisconsin and B1G baseball. Basically they dropped the sport when money was tight and apparently have no interest in reversing that position despite positive cash in the B1G and general increase in college baseball. I believe Barry has distinction of representing the only Power 5 non participant in baseball. This is a detriment to B1G baseball IMO.

Actually, Wisconsin makes up a group of four schools in what you would call the Power 5 that have discontinued their baseball program. I was aware of a handful of others but couldn't remember which ones, so I looked it up and they are Syracuse (1972), Colorado (1980), and Iowa State (2001). The article is correct about Alvarez's lack of interest in resurrecting the program along with the current AD despite a lot of support and pleas from alumni just about every year to restart the program. Wisconsin has a highly successful club program that gets a lot of support, but even that has not moved the current hierarchy at Wisconsin to think about resurrecting the program. Having just 13 teams in the B1G makes for scheduling problems and every week during the conference season, we have a team playing a series out of conference like this week when OSU plays USC Upstate.

 

[hoosier roadtrips]

I was not aware of the other three schools not playing baseball. I remember when Providence dropped the sport many years ago.