baseball program on a regular basis. The year you are citing involved significant improvements to the suite areas and conversion of areas for offices and the ability for the players to eat together and also the start of the pitching lab development, as well as some other one time expenses. While I realize it says no debt payments/CAPEX stuff is included, I think those numbers are not coincidental and somehow we aren't including those as debt/CAPEX (there is a baseball support group that is similar to the football and basketball groups). All of those were privately funded by baseball supporters (completely funded). The previous year we spent $3.7M in expenses (and that was the 2022 championship year). We didn't increase our baseball budget by $2M that is for sure (not even remotely close). There are not any inherent differences in baseball and softball relative to travel advantages, quality of hotels when on the road, per diem, etc. Baseball doesn't charter flights on road trips and buses even to places like ND (like softball does), GT, etc. Think they will only fly to BC, Miami, and at times FSU. Relative to the sports peer groups (ACC), there is not any real inherent salary differences within the staffs. That is what is tricky about trying to compare the different sports within one institution. Baseball is much more expensive and it isn't a situation where you just move more money over (I know you realize that--just stating for others reading). Gameday operations alone is much more expensive as baseball plays like 32 home games to 16 or 17 for softball and has a larger operations staff. We are probably middle of the road in ACC salary expenditures. While the baseball salaries are higher than softball, they aren't relative to other baseball coaches salaries. Pete is probably closer to the top of ACC softball salaries than Szefc is (when considering all compensation). The main difference is the facility/its upkeep/improvements/enhancements. I do advocate for a new softball facility. But as far as operations dollars, we aren't spending at a clip (regularly as a Top 20 program). As far as the two programs go, softball has a better pedigree. While Scot tailed off at the end of his time here, he had still been to 8 tournament appearances (all since 2005) including a WCWS appearance but softball wasn't at the same spot as baseball when Szefc took over. When Szefc took over our climb to baseball competitiveness (don't think that is a word LOL) was much much steeper than the climb when Pete took over. Unfortunately, while I liked Pat Mason a lot on a personal level, we just weren't remotely competitive in the league. And ACC baseball is a much much deeper league in baseball than softball (and not a situation where one or two players can change the trajectory). I only post this to say that these spending numbers are not necessarily all that they appear to be. It will take several years to determine what we truly spend on any sport. But when there is a large jump from one year to the next, it usually indicates some one time expenses not normally associated with a regular operating budget.