Director of Roster Management and Portal Relations

Some baseball programs have been finding a way around the coaching limitation for quite some time.  Many schools have a Director of Baseball Operations.  No, he doesn't coach, but he certainly frees coaches up to do more.  Some schools have a Video Analysis guy.  Some have a Director of Player Development, who, as I understand it, can work with players, just not on the field.  I know of one D1 school that had a "Special Assistant to the Head Coach" whose duties were  "practice planning, assisting the coaching staff with pitcher development, in-game management, on-campus recruiting and the transfer portal."  If you've got the money, you can game the system.

Interesting but I also know of a school that has enough baseball money from giving to actually build a performance center. But due to Title 9 they are not allowed because women's sports would have to have an equal building.

@MTH is correct. Programs are adding staff getting around NCAA compliance by not adding another paid coach in their sport. Director of baseball operations in many programs takes 100% responsibility of all bills within the sports budget. Son just turned down a player development position at an ACC. He was allowed to work on the field but could not be dressed in uniform on game days.  Then there is the analytics guy who can be on the field with the players but also cannot dress in uniform on game days. Another position is assistant to HC. You can have as many as your budget allows and its legal. It's just not only 4 coaches anymore in baseball as well as more help in all sports. I see this as a good thing.

Good Knight you are right. Florida just opened a new football facility while women's soccer opened one in April. That's the way it is supposed to and should be.

@Good Knight posted:

Interesting but I also know of a school that has enough baseball money from giving to actually build a performance center. But due to Title 9 they are not allowed because women's sports would have to have an equal building.

And the problem with that is - ?

My kid’s high school had incredible sports facilities. But the locker rooms were old. The girls was so small they had to share lockers. When a new enormous boys locker room was built the girls inherited the old, mold infested locker room. A group of parents led by an attorney met with the AD, principal and superintendent. It was accepted the boys needed a larger locker room due to football. But, if the mold wasn’t removed from the girls locker room and completely refurbished with everything the boys had Title IX lawyers would reign down on the school district. At the time the girl’s sports teams were far more successful than the boy’s teams.

@SpeedDemon posted:

And the problem with that is - ?

My kid’s high school had incredible sports facilities. But the locker rooms were old. The girls was so small they had to share lockers. When a new enormous boys locker room was built the girls inherited the old, mold infested locker room. A group of parents led by an attorney met with the AD, principal and superintendent. It was accepted the boys needed a larger locker room due to football. But, if the mold wasn’t removed from the girls locker room and completely refurbished with everything the boys had Title IX lawyers would reign down on the school district. At the time the girl’s sports teams were far more successful than the boy’s teams.

As expected, the male sports parents without female athletes didn’t understand the fuss and started calling out the parents of female athletes as trouble makers.

@RJM posted:

My kid’s high school had incredible sports facilities. But the locker rooms were old. The girls was so small they had to share lockers. When a new enormous boys locker room was built the girls inherited the old, mold infested locker room. A group of parents led by an attorney met with the AD, principal and superintendent. It was accepted the boys needed a larger locker room due to football. But, if the mold wasn’t removed from the girls locker room and completely refurbished with everything the boys had Title IX lawyers would reign down on the school district. At the time the girl’s sports teams were far more successful than the boy’s teams.

My kid’s high school had incredible sports facilities. But the locker rooms were old. The girls was so small they had to share lockers. When a new enormous boys locker room was built the girls inherited the old, mold infested locker room. A group of parents led by an attorney met with the AD, principal and superintendent. It was accepted the boys needed a larger locker room due to football. But, if the mold wasn’t removed from the girls locker room and completely refurbished with everything the boys had Title IX lawyers would reign down on the school district. At the time the girl’s sports teams were far more successful than the boy’s teams.

As expected, the male sports parents without female athletes didn’t understand the fuss and started calling out the parents of female athletes as trouble makers.

Interesting story. Thanks for sharing.

Let's hope that other school can raise enough money for a softball performance center so both can be built.

Until schools are force to report their financial at a line item level with supporting documentation, they will perform some creative math.

Check out how Penn State reported their 2021 EADA

They consolidated all their satellite schools into the main entity

Reasons could be many, but I normally go the way of limiting transparency

Wow, Bryant gets their first ever bid to the dance last year, not to mention there were questions on if they might lose it because of student behavior in the stands during the conference tournament, and they start getting delusions of grandeur.  The baseball team has been pretty solid mid major for quite a while... so I entirely get your What the Hell!!??? comment.

@Good Knight posted:

Interesting but I also know of a school that has enough baseball money from giving to actually build a performance center. But due to Title 9 they are not allowed because women's sports would have to have an equal building.

It does not have to be equal in scope and size but would have to include women's bathrooms, locker rooms, etc.

@SpeedDemon posted:

Interesting story. Thanks for sharing.

Let's hope that other school can raise enough money for a softball performance center so both can be built.

My son is five years younger than my daughter. During his high school years there was a need to renovate and update the baseball facility. The parents in charge came up with grand plans. I suggested the softball program may not be all in. The softball program didn’t see the need to upscale to the level of the baseball program’s plans. They refuse to raise more than X dollars. As baseball parents we had to raise money that went to the softball program. But, if you’re going to have grand plans it has to be done equally for both programs.

By the time the baseball/softball complex was done over the school’s facilities were so upscale the football stadium, soccer stadium, basketball arena and baseball/softball complex were all used as district playoff neutral sites.

Given the high school is highly regarded academically the facilities slowed the flow of top athletes to nearby privates.