Typically..Baseball is Limited by Budget re Travel

[billybud]

Baseball, for many schools, does not earn the revenue that football brings in.

Baseball travel is an expense that there is often pressure to contain. Conference travel can't be helped and must be budgeted...but, when it comes to playing OOC opponents, baseball teams often look for an opponent within a reasonable bus ride. No jet setting across country on chartered planes like the big boys of football.

Geography becomes a limiting factor. You typically schedule away OOC games with programs within a 300 mile or so radius....

If you draw a circle around Wichita with a radius of 300 miles and redlined the included college programs, that pretty much would include the practical OOC away opponents for the Shockers.

[SubGod22]

And yet WSU travels quite a bit further than that and play on the West Coast every year.

[Shocker85]

Re: Typically..Baseball is Limited by Budget re Travel

Geography becomes a limiting factor. You typically schedule away OOC games with programs within a 300 mile or so radius....

If you draw a circle around Wichita with a radius of 300 miles and redlined the included college programs, that pretty much would include the practical OOC away opponents for the Shockers.

Do you have some facts and data to back-up your assertions?

--'85.

[billybud]

Only the ACC, SEC, BE schedules...I haven't looked at the western conferences.

[Ta town]

Re: Typically..Baseball is Limited by Budget re Travel

Baseball, for many schools, does not earn the revenue that football brings in.

Baseball travel is an expense that there is often pressure to contain. Conference travel can't be helped and must be budgeted...but, when it comes to playing OOC opponents, baseball teams often look for an opponent within a reasonable bus ride. No jet setting across country on chartered planes like the big boys of football.

Geography becomes a limiting factor. You typically schedule away OOC games with programs within a 300 mile or so radius....

If you draw a circle around Wichita with a radius of 300 miles and redlined the included college programs, that pretty much would include the practical OOC away opponents for the Shockers.

YEP! sometimes on weekends I throw the surfboard in my car and drive the short 300 miles to the pacific coast. thats what is so great about kansas.

go away, youre starting to prove your ignorance.

Also I guarantee Gene would go to florida for a series with you guys but MM aint having it. Just like that turd down in Austin who refuses to play.

[billybud]

Dang...those western distances always throw me off...only 300 miles to the Pacific?

[SHOCKvalue]

We've had home and home series' within the past five seasons with the following clubs:

Long Beach (every year)
Fullerton
Arizona State
USC
South Alabama
Richmond
Pepperdine
Louisiana Lafayette

So much for that theory...

[billybud]

Wichita does travel further than we typically do in the BCS eastern conferences for non conference games....

We don't fly, except to conference games..like Miami, Boston, North carolina, Virginia, etc..

[SHOCKvalue]

Re: Typically..Baseball is Limited by Budget re Travel

If you draw a circle around Wichita with a radius of 300 miles and redlined the included college programs, that pretty much would include the practical OOC away opponents for the Shockers.

Wichita does travel further than we typically do in the BCS eastern conferences for non conference games....

[ShockerFever]

So a guy tries to make a point, only to disprove his own point 20 minutes after starting it?

Wow..

[billybud]

I guess you have to travel when you are in the middle of Kansas...

Gawd...I remember stories of transplanted westerners in Florida going on about how they drove 75 miles to go to a supermarket (I didn't really believe that at the time).

Heck..here I think it is against the state constitution to have a more than a 5 mile stretch without a liquor store.

[Ta town]

I guess you have to travel when you are in the middle of Kansas...

Gawd...I remember stories of transplanted westerners in Florida going on about how they drove 75 miles to go to a supermarket (I didn't really believe that at the time).

Heck..here I think it is against the state constitution to have a more than a 5 mile stretch without a liquor store.

yes I have to drive from Wichita to KC once a month to get grocries. Worse yet the roads created by pilgrims wagon wheels are starting to get pretty rough. So sometimes I float down the arkansas to get to tulsa.

[billybud]

Yep...that sounds like the stories we hear..."why on a clear day, you can see the Rockies from Topeka".

[SHOCKvalue]

I just got indoor sanitary sewer plumbing last year, right after they ran the electricity to my house.

It's fantastic!

[roadshocker]

limited budget

next season the Shocks will open up in Fort Myers, Florida in a tournament!!!