Why does Vandy not have a softball team?

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AGGies0311
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Our Women's BB never breaks even or even close to that. Look at game attendance.
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2/7Marine0311 said:

Our Women's BB never breaks even or even close to that. Look at game attendance.
It's not right now. It could do better, but it generates more revenue from ticket sales (soccer generates a lot from camps) than any other women's sport, and at a school that spent less, could well come close to paying its own way.
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The women's BB team has 12 on it's roster and 4 coaches, they spend the most of any women's program.
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2/7Marine0311 said:

The women's BB team has 12 on it's roster and 4 coaches, they spend the most of any women's program.
We spend $2 million on coaching salaries. A school that was starting a program wouldn't spend half that much. There's a reason why everyone has a women's basketball program, but not necessarily gymnastics, or softball, or whatever.
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Not sure how we can't afford gymnastics while most of the other SEC can, ones with less revenue than we raise, even pre Kyle. Where does our money go?
AGGies0311
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Gymnastics will never be at ATM due to the risk management and cost
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2/7Marine0311 said:

Gymnastics will never be at ATM due to the risk management and cost
Doesn't answer my question.
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Why?
AGGies0311
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Our money goes to the other sports. Track spends a ton especially in the outdoor season, they compete on the road every week almost, equestrian also costs a lot too.
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2/7Marine0311 said:

Our money goes to the other sports. Track spends a ton especially in the outdoor season, they compete on the road every week almost, equestrian also costs a lot too.
Other schools have T&F and equestrian and also gymnastics, Auburn for example. what do we spend money on that those guys don't?
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2/7Marine0311 said:

Our money goes to the other sports. Track spends a ton especially in the outdoor season, they compete on the road every week almost, equestrian also costs a lot too.
Sure, we don't have a home outdoor meet but we aren't the only SEC school not to have a home outdoor meet this year (Vanderbilt doesn't either). And while we had 6 home indoor meets (more than anyone else), 8 SEC schools didn't have a home indoor track meet (Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Ole Miss, Miss St., South Carolina, Tenn). 5 SEC schools (Auburn, Georgia, Miss St, Mizzou) didn't have a home CC meet (we tied with Arkansas for most with 3).

This isn't usual for schools to have to travel for track and field. Arkansas is the only SEC school whose track team hosted more meets than us and they only hosted 1 more than us.

I want us to get an outdoor track and field facility built, but this notion that they just compete on the road all them time and are not supported by our athletic department is ridiculous. Florida who is a top school in Track and Field as well and they don't have an indoor track and only host 2 outdoor meets and 1 cc meet this year. Oregon doesn't have an indoor facility, and is only hosting 3 outdoor track and field meets this year (not even a cc meet).
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And to add to the sports agenda what about men's (and even women's) ice hockey? We have a club team already playing and they draw very well in a place that may seat a little over 1000 with standing room only. And they draw that much (if not more) when Texas and Texas Tech come to town!
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And why doesn't TCU have a softball team?
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BQ_90 said:



Other schools have T&F and equestrian and also gymnastics, Auburn for example. what do we spend money on that those guys don't?

Well for one, Sumlin made more than Malzahn last year, Chavis made more than Steele, and Mazzone made more than Lashlee so that is where some of it goes.

But, sure we could afford a gymnastics program if we wanted to. We could afford to add a number of more sports if that was really our priority. The question is do we want to add another sport(s) or focus on the ones we have?

I think the better comparison to Auburn isn't how can Auburn afford a gymnastics team it is would Auburn be adding a gymnastics team at this point in time if they didn't already have it?
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Their chicks play baseball
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