What's your CU sports holiday wish list?

[CarolinaBuff]

Man CU softball and baseball would be awesome, especially softball. Colorado has really put out some good talent in recent years.

My wife coaches a softball travel team and previously coached, and coached against, several players who were in the NCAA tournament these last few years. Talking with a lot of those girl's parents, I know they would've stayed if CU had a softball team.

Such a bummer, and I hope one day we have both softball and baseball at CU.

With the spring weather challenges this made me curious about the other front range schools and which is these sports they have:

AF - baseball only
DU - neither
UNC - both
CSU - softball only
Wyoming - neither

Weather certainly isn't the biggest challenge though. All B1G schools except Wisconsin have a baseball team.

 

[SewallBeach]

 

[The Alabaster Yak]

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Love the transparency

 

[Buffnik]

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For that price, we can get a QB and a couple other top players. That translates into a monster football season versus the money teeing up a perpetual financial albatross with baseball & softball. In other words, if RG has a $10M donor he'll be on his knees begging them to apply it to football NIL, coaching endowment or stadium project.

 

[BuffLuke80]

A straight national title, no sharing bullshvt. Most of you have touched on the others I'd love to.see, so I'll leave that be.

 

[GRM]

With the spring weather challenges this made me curious about the other front range schools and which is these sports they have:

AF - baseball only
DU - neither
UNC - both
CSU - softball only
Wyoming - neither

Weather certainly isn't the biggest challenge though. All B1G schools except Wisconsin have a baseball team.

I would love to have baseball/softball back at CU, however Coaching LL and LYBA ball in BOCO youth baseball the "Spring" schedule is very unpredictable weather--a crap shoot. Feb is out; March is the worst and April is better but still not great. March/April can have 2 weeks of rain/snow outs, and a bunch of unknown games--will we play or not play?

Oregon State is a successful and well established baseball program, they are the last non-SEC that has won CWS in over a decade. They are blessed with a world class college baseball stadium and are actually better situated weather wise, however look at the crazy schedule they just played as an Independent. 37 away/neutral, 27 at home. It worked for them as they made the CWS. In contrast, CU baseball/softball starts with an extreme road heavy in AZ and TX, longer than Ore St, However, the B-12 is well suited for CU to play in conference.

2025 Baseball Schedule - Oregon State University Athletics

The official 2025 Baseball schedule for the Oregon State Beavers

osubeavers.com

That said, I think RG is on point, unless there is a huge booster paying for the complexes and really get if off the ground, doubtful. I could envision College Hockey here 1st, build one arena and you field both men's and women's teams and can even host some tournaments. IMO, CU's stadium(s) would be on East Campus, so CU goes to war with the City of Boulder + BOCO. The stadium has to be upper end just to ensure they can cover it and play the games--huge capital outlay.

I would love for the Monforts to jump in with an enormous check (never happen), however they have extreme trouble running a reputable MLB franchise blessed with an awesome stadium that still somehow draws tons of fans. They probably fund UNC some (Greeley ties), however they are located well away from the foothills/mountains compared to BOCO.

 

[Liver]

10mm? add that to the existing budget and we will win the b12, and possibly more. put it in football. no offense to baseball and softball. put it where we can get massive ROI. check out the saban effect at bama. ****, even their academics and admission standards have improved. then things like softball become real and possible.

FOOTBALL.

 

[SewallBeach]

For that price, we can get a QB and a couple other top players. That translates into a monster football season versus the money teeing up a perpetual financial albatross with baseball & softball. In other words, if RG has a $10M donor he'll be on his knees begging them to apply it to football NIL, coaching endowment or stadium project.

Yeah I would love to see baseball and softball but with no existing stadiums (that I’m aware of) idk how $10M is anywhere close to getting it done.

 

[BuffLuke80]

Yeah I would love to see baseball and softball
but with no existing stadiums (that I’m aware of) idk how $10M is anywhere close to getting it done.

They'd probably just have to build one man.

 

[SewallBeach]

They'd probably just have to build one man.

Could be wrong but I don't think there are D1 programs that share fields for baseball and softball (or logistically how that would be possible) so we'd be talking about building two stadiums.

For context, Texas State Southern is building a baseball and softball facility with a $7M-$9M price tag, so that doesn't leave much room for anything else with $10M.

TSU to build baseball, softball stadiums on Yates campus

TSU baseball and softball stadiums to be built on Yates High School campus. New facilities to open in 2026, providing a home for the Tigers.

defendernetwork.com

 

[BuffLuke80]

Could be wrong but I don't think there are D1 programs that share fields for baseball and softball (or logistically how that would be possible) so we'd be talking about building two stadiums.

For context, Texas State is building a baseball and softball facility with a $7M-$9M price tag, so that doesn't leave much room for anything else with $10M.

TSU to build baseball, softball stadiums on Yates campus

TSU baseball and softball stadiums to be built on Yates High School campus. New facilities to open in 2026, providing a home for the Tigers.

defendernetwork.com

I've seen it before but don't recall the school.

 

[Buffnik]

Could be wrong but I don't think there are D1 programs that share fields for baseball and softball (or logistically how that would be possible) so we'd be talking about building two stadiums.

For context, Texas State is building a baseball and softball facility with a $7M-$9M price tag, so that doesn't leave much room for anything else with $10M.

TSU to build baseball, softball stadiums on Yates campus

TSU baseball and softball stadiums to be built on Yates High School campus. New facilities to open in 2026, providing a home for the Tigers.

defendernetwork.com

Construction costs are a bit higher in Boulder, too.

 

[SpacemanSpiff]

Could be wrong but I don't think there are D1 programs that share fields for baseball and softball (or logistically how that would be possible) so we'd be talking about building two stadiums.

For context, Texas State is building a baseball and softball facility with a $7M-$9M price tag, so that doesn't leave much room for anything else with $10M.

TSU to build baseball, softball stadiums on Yates campus

TSU baseball and softball stadiums to be built on Yates High School campus. New facilities to open in 2026, providing a home for the Tigers.

defendernetwork.com

A nit, but TSU they reference is Texas Southern, not Texas State.

 

[SewallBeach]

A nit, but TSU they reference is Texas Southern, not Texas State.

Good catch, thanks