The two time McFlurry Cup Champions were stopped incredibly short of making a run at a third championship. Changes were happening all around campus with Judi Bailey stepping down from the university's president position and large wholesale budget cutbacks. Topping the list was the NMU Baseball 'Cats who, even though they were on the long road to securing their place in the history books, most of the administration and local community had never heard of or attended games.

Although a hard decision for the Board of Control to make, the staff and players understood the sacrifice that was needed by their team to maintain the high level of academic standards on campus and Title IX requirements. It was a unanimous decision by the players to voluntarily dissolve the team until the University budget could once again support NCAA collegiate baseball.

Funding that was spent on the team for equipment and Superior Dome rental could be returned into the NMU Athletic budget and/or the General Funds budget. After heated debates for what funds were now available, the Public Television and Radio budget was the lucky recipient of the funding (which provided both stations less than one month of their operating budget).

Since 2003, many of the players have passed on careers of professional baseball; instead they stayed at NMU to enjoy their college years and to earn a degree, or be with their closest friends.

A "Bring it Back" campaign was started in 2005 in an effort to revive the team, to which many of the former players reminisced about their time in the Dome with the uniquely shaped field, with the Wislocki brothers quoted as saying "We wish them the best of luck, Beef-a-Roo field has always been quite the enigma," during a telephone interview from their California homes.