Baseball Official 2025 Nebraska Cardiac Beaver Slayers Baseball Thread - (33-29) - BACK TO BACK BIG TEN CHAMPIONS

[HuskerBaseball]

Wasn’t there a recent OWH article interviewing Dannen where he talked about doing some baseball facilities upgrades? Hopefully he does come through with them unlike the previous ADs with their un-kept promises like you mentioned.

We wont be a big dog until we own our stadium.

 

[Goskers07]

While I respect what you’re saying and football is king and there’s zero denying that. I’m not sure we truly have to choose here.

The difference per year to get from 18 scholarships to 34 is about 500k. Sorry, but that’s not asking much.

This is my thoughts too. Is it really that crazy to ask to funnel an extra million away from football to baseball? The football program is certainly the cash cow and needs the bulk of the investment, but its so far in the plus side financially I really can't imagine it would set the program back to push more money to our most successful men's sport outside of wrestling.

 

[Kaladin]

We wont be a big dog until we own our stadium.

Learning that Nebraska doesn’t fully own its baseball stadium was almost as surprising to me as finding out that we offer hardly any scholarships to our baseball players

 

[SOHusker11]

Wasn’t there a recent OWH article interviewing Dannen where he talked about doing some baseball facilities upgrades? Hopefully he does come through with them unlike the previous ADs with their un-kept promises like you mentioned.

Check the bomb shelter. Frogsker posted.

from OWH recent article:

Nebraska doesn't own Haymarket and Bowlin, so that makes it harder, but have there been any conversations about upgrades for softball and baseball?

Dannen: "Yeah, those facilities have the most vulnerabilities because they haven't really been touched. We want to get into the locker room, the clubhouses and get those updated as much as possible. But we need a true performance facility for those sports. The Gordon indoor is awesome for what it is, but strength and conditioning, better sports medicine facility with more of the modalities that you use today, pitching lab. That needs to be done. How and where and what that investment looks like? It's there.

"We haven't committed to anything yet. It's something we're talking about internally, whether that's located there or whether it's located off-site. And maybe there's some indoor space. In a perfect world for me, there would be enough of an indoor that you could have some infield and both baseball and softball could do some work in the offseason indoors, given the weather that we have. Now, the turf fields at Sandhills Global are a huge asset to us, but that training piece is probably what's lacking."

 

[redzoner]

We wont be a big dog until we own our stadium.

What would be the big benefit of owning the stadium?

 

[Samkellers_69]

What would be the big benefit of owning the stadium?

We wouldn't have to split anything or tell them we need upgrades to shit with the "wanna be can't give up the dream" saltdawgs.

 

[HuskerBaseball]

What would be the big benefit of owning the stadium?

You can upgrade your facilities ? add indoor workout area, attract players, not share half the ticket and concession sales?

 

[Goskers07]

What would be the big benefit of owning the stadium?

We could actually make improvements to the facilities at our discretion rather than having to negotiate with the Saltdawgs and keep them happy.

 

[2010sarenevercomingback]

You can upgrade your facilities ? add indoor workout area, attract players, not share half the ticket and concession sales?

I know we split the facilities costs with them, but if we owned the stadium outright, we'd pay for the upgrades cost by ourselves - if we wanted to make improvements & fund it without requiring the Saltdogs to pay for any, would they actively impede those?

 

[redzoner]

We wouldn't have to split anything or tell them we need upgrades to shit with the "wanna be can't give up the dream" saltdawgs.

You can upgrade your facilities ? add indoor workout area, attract players, not share half the ticket and concession sales?

We could actually make improvements to the facilities at our discretion rather than having to negotiate with the Saltdawgs and keep them happy.

That all makes sense but on the other side it would be a large capital outlay for the AD and you know take on full cost of maintenance and development. Plus losing a prime location to have the ballpark.

Seems like it would be better to find some better leadership for Haymarket park to do the things necessary for it to succeed.

 

[Goskers07]

That all makes sense but on the other side it would be a large capital outlay for the AD and you know take on full cost of maintenance and development. Plus losing a prime location to have the ballpark.

Seems like it would be better to find some better leadership for Haymarket park to do the things necessary for it to succeed.

My understanding of it now is that the Saltdawgs really don't want to take on any cost of maintenance or development anyway, so why split the profits with em? Ideally it'd be nice to see the university just buy out the current location (as you said, its prime for the university) and then tackle improvements. I have no idea if that's ever going to be realistic for a number of reasons though.

 

[HuskerBaseball]

I know we split the facilities costs with them, but if we owned the stadium outright, we'd pay for the upgrades cost by ourselves - if we wanted to make improvements & fund it without requiring the Saltdogs to pay for any, would they actively impede those?

they will and have

 

[PonyBoy]

What about pitchers

9:30am update today

Mac - MLB
Broderick - returning (90%+)*
Horn - returning (75%)**

I haven't heard any negative news about anyone else.

*I've heard it'll take a large number for Broderick to sign MLB. And I dont see that happening.

**I'm still in disbelief Horn asked for the NIL he did. My gut says his loser agent is behind it, so hopefully for our sake his parents get involved.

 

[PonyBoy]

I'm glad our staff feels good about it... It just doesn't feel right that there will be teams out there able to fully fund close to twice as many baseball scholarships as us AND do their NIL dollars.

Take what we get I suppose.

Remember, the "feels good about it" is older info as in, feels good the B1G would approve 18. This number has been thrown around a ton, including other B1G coaches, but there hasn't been an update yet as of yesterday morning.

 

[jaihawk]

My understanding of it now is that the Saltdawgs really don't want to take on any cost of maintenance or development anyway, so why split the profits with em? Ideally it'd be nice to see the university just buy out the current location (as you said, its prime for the university) and then tackle improvements. I have no idea if that's ever going to be realistic for a number of reasons though.

I think I had heard one time that the Saltdogs have such a sweet deal from Abel on their stadium rent, that they only have to average 1k fans/game in order to break even. I'm not sure if that's true or not. I had season tickets when the ballpark first opened, both for Huskers and Saltdogs. I've been to 3 Saltdogs games in the last 5 years and every time, the crowd has been lackluster. It just shocks me that they are able to continue operating to be honest.

With the addition of alcohol sales to Haymarket Park, did that generate any extra revenue for the baseball program? I'm guessing it did, but maybe it wasn't impactful enough?

Personally, I wouldn't mind the Saltdogs drying up and the stadium being sold off to the University. I don't know if Abel's ego would allow that to happen. The only time I'm aware that he's been willing to put money into the stadium was when they did the Home Run Porch because he was wanting to host his reunion out there.

 

[clifscales]

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I think I had heard one time that the Saltdogs have such a sweet deal from Abel on their stadium rent, that they only have to average 1k fans/game in order to break even. I'm not sure if that's true or not. I had season tickets when the ballpark first opened, both for Huskers and Saltdogs. I've been to 3 Saltdogs games in the last 5 years and every time, the crowd has been lackluster. It just shocks me that they are able to continue operating to be honest.

With the addition of alcohol sales to Haymarket Park, did that generate any extra revenue for the baseball program? I'm guessing it did, but maybe it wasn't impactful enough?

Personally, I wouldn't mind the Saltdogs drying up and the stadium being sold off to the University. I don't know if Abel's ego would allow that to happen. The only time I'm aware that he's been willing to put money into the stadium was when they did the Home Run Porch because he was wanting to host his reunion out there.

I dont think Abel cares about breaking even. probably needs a write off.

 

[Goskers07]

I think I had heard one time that the Saltdogs have such a sweet deal from Abel on their stadium rent, that they only have to average 1k fans/game in order to break even. I'm not sure if that's true or not. I had season tickets when the ballpark first opened, both for Huskers and Saltdogs. I've been to 3 Saltdogs games in the last 5 years and every time, the crowd has been lackluster. It just shocks me that they are able to continue operating to be honest.

With the addition of alcohol sales to Haymarket Park, did that generate any extra revenue for the baseball program? I'm guessing it did, but maybe it wasn't impactful enough?

Personally, I wouldn't mind the Saltdogs drying up and the stadium being sold off to the University. I don't know if Abel's ego would allow that to happen. The only time I'm aware that he's been willing to put money into the stadium was when they did the Home Run Porch because he was wanting to host his reunion out there.

All good points/questions and a perfect example of why Nebraska baseball is stuck in neutral in the facilities race.

 

[PonyBoy]

ECU head coach

 

[clifscales]

Evidently we need more room

 

[HuskerBaseball]

Evidently we need more room

Velo didnt jump.
was 82-86 most of year, We have guys like White and Olson 87-90 and not asked back