Saturday, April 9, 2011

Baseball to stay in California

Now this is a good story and an even better due to the budget crisis happening in California. The University of California, Berkeley, baseball program will continue to represent the campus as an Intercollegiate Athletics sport, now and into the future, as the result of a successful and ongoing fundraising effort on the part of alumni, former players, parents of current players and other team supporters, campus officials said today (Friday, April 8).
After a significant increase in philanthropic pledges in the last few days, commitments totaling $9 million were presented to Chancellor Robert Birgeneau yesterday by Stu Gordon, a former Golden Bear pitcher and leader of the fundraising effort. In light of the fact that the funds raised remain about 10 percent short of the previously identified $10 million goal, donors and the campus administration have agreed that the team’s formal reinstatement will be announced once the $10 million target is met through continued fundraising.  Look I'm not a Fan of Cal but I do feel as when they decided to dump their program I thought it was mistake I understand that they did this due to budget problems but here is the thing.  They have a medicore football program granite people will argue with me but lets be honest Jeff Tedford overall record is 72-42 in his 8 years at the helm of the Golden Bears.to me isn't worthy.  I'm a huge baseball fan being a former college baseball player so when I got word that they were dropping baseball it was a shot to the gut.  So congratulations to the University of California deciding to keep Baseball

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A fundraising effort has saved the baseball program at the University of California at Berkeley, which had been targeted for elimination, campus officials said Friday.
The university said that after a significant increase in philanthropic pledges in the last few days, commitments totaling $9 million were presented to Chancellor Robert Birgeneau on Thursday by Stu Gordon, a former Cal pitcher who helped lead the fundraising effort.
A fundraising effort has saved the baseball program at the University of California at Berkeley, which had been targeted for elimination, campus officials said Friday.
The university said that after a significant increase in philanthropic pledges in the last few days, commitments totaling $9 million were presented to Chancellor Robert Birgeneau on Thursday by Stu Gordon, a former Cal pitcher who helped lead the fundraising effort.
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2 comments:

  1. Charlene AmsdenApril 10, 2011 at 5:39 PM

    Actually, I think this is sad. People get all gung-ho and open their pockets to save sporting programs, but let the academic budget fail. I guess that think we need baseball players more than we need doctors and such.

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  2. D HawkApril 10, 2011 at 6:20 PM

    Thank you for the comment back, I would agree with you if this was done from the schools pocket but this was down from outside donors. Also my argument was that the University of California had to cut baseball due to the salary giving to their baseball coach and that's why I felt its a good to bring Baseball back. To me personally baseball is already a dying sport.

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