Just kidding, the RG reports he’s considering selling some land, but unfortunately it’s not PK Park. To bad, because baseball is a money pit. It’s the English Department of the Duck Athletic enterprise.

The Ducks make a lot of money on football, break even on basketball, and lose money on everything else. Women’s basketball once did OK, but Kilkenny trashed it, and the rebuilding is slow since the fans hate Matt Court and many would rather see a woman coach. In any case the NCAA makes us have Women’s basketball.

Baseball is the big money looser. When Duck booster Pat Kilkenny started a baseball team in 2009, he told us they’d turn a profit by 2014. He lied. Here are the latest numbers. After their share of central costs and a little – very little – TV revenue, it looks like they’re loosing roughly $4.5M a year, with no positive trend. And that’s just cash flow – they’re also sitting on some valuable real estate.

If baseball were an academic department, with 25 students, $360K in revenue, and $2.5M in direct costs, Andrew Marcus would be taking a knife to the place and reallocating the funds to save UO’s academic mission and keep us in the AAU.

But instead UO is cutting English faculty. Can anyone explain how this makes sense?

And why is athletics allowed to have continued negative carry-forwards?