Fall Ball

[Orangeblood]

Saw a game listed for Nov. 8 at DFF. Missouri maybe?

As usual, I'll be already in Morgantown for the football game, so I won't be there.

 

[notanative]

Fall Ball Schedule

 

[Orangeblood]

Awesome!! A time and day that I can actually make.

 

[KEYSERSOZE]

Anyone have a fall roster...it's not posted on the UT site?

 

[majorwhiteapples]

Please tell me that you looked at all four previous posts?

 

[DrEyes]

Fall baseball attendance is minimal at best. So, the University wisely schedules this 2 game weekend during Football's open weekend. After the disappointments of the past few seasons we hope to get a preview of this years team.

So to encourage support of Fall Ball, we are charging $5 admission?
WHY?
Because we can? Because "We're Texas"? Because that somehow increases the value of my season tickets?

I searched the announcement looking for the footnote that proceeds would be donated to ??? anything - Neighborhood Longhorns, Cancer Research, MADD, but found nada, zilch, zip, zero.

Maybe I need a marketing lesson from one of you Biz-school types.

 

[notanative]

DrEyes, tell us you're just being facetious, and that you're really not feeling that put upon to be asked to pay $5.00 to attend the Fall Ball games.

 

[DrEyes]

nota,
my issue is not the amount they charge, but that they charge anything at all. If the game goes on the team record, i'll be there and gladly pay whatever the full price might be. my season tickets and foundation donation are not enough for the university to allow me to encourage interest in the program by inviting friends and family to come watch the future of Texas baseball? I can''t suggest that the families of the kids i coach go to a fall ball game without expecting them to pay to watch practice? not a game that counts, but a practice game.

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[petscii]

Some people would ***** about a blow job.

 

[DrEyes]

okay. so much for enlightened discourse, debate and discussion.

My post was more about MY issue that too often it seems that it IS about the $ at the school which has given me so much and to which i continue to give. I guess that feeling comes from being around the baseball program since Gus became the head coach. I've heard/seen comments from alums who wear national championship rings that they are put off by charging for fall ball games. They (and I) seem to feel that "We're Texas" and we don't have to do that. We have enough success, pride, and tradition that the donations should keep us in a position that we don't have to chase every dollar. And winning takes care of that.
Well, the disappointments of the past few seasons make us look like we are charging because others are charging.
I did some homework, rather than just spitting on someone else's post.
Regardless of the amount of admission charged, I now find that there is a significance to the "practice game" these days beyond "practice."

By NCAA rules, a baseball team must deduct an appropriate number of games from the 56 games allowed in the spring based on any exhibition games played in the fall practice period.

So, I was wrong to feel that it was inappropriate to charge admission to a game which didn't show up on our season record.
These fall exhibition games (which I have agree are important to the development of the team), are of significance.
I will quit complaining about paying the admission charge.