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Boise State will have to make baseball a hit without having a home

TDR Ed’s Notes; More evidence that the men who made the decision to drop a successful low cost wrestling program so they could take on an expensive money losing baseball program and they do not even have a stadium to play in. Just more excuses to lose more money in the athletic department. Almost as foolish as UNO and Trev Albert who dropped a 3 time defending national championship program so that they could lose millions each year by adding on Ice Hockey and many losses in Division I sports. Arrogant foolish decisions by athletic directors have hurt wrestling more than Title IX.
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BSU President Bob Kustra speaks Nov. 17, 2017, about the decision to cut the school’s wrestling program and establish a baseball team instead. “While I know there’s many wrestling advocates out there, they can’t compete with America’s national past time. By Darin Oswald It was April 2017 when then-Boise State President Bob Kustra announced the big news: The school was dropping wrestling to revive a baseball program, with the 2020 season targeted for the sport’s return.
About a year away from that first season, the Broncos have coaches, uniforms, the first dozen recruits on campus — they held practices starting last September — and land that the university acquired to build a stadium near campus. What’s still missing is a place to hang their hats and bats for games. BSU spokesman Greg Hahn confirmed with the Statesman last week that the school is still in the negotiation stage with potential developers for a facility located just south of Albertsons Stadium — on a parcel where houses and other structures still stand — and the university acknowledged the obvious time crunch in a press release Friday:
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February 13, 2019 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized