Ritch Price had more on his mind this summer than recruiting.

Kansas University’s baseball coach also was plugged into raising money for a proposed indoor workout facility at Hoglund Ballpark.

The $360,000 project is part of a three-pronged $1.15 million baseball capital-improvements plan. Also on the wish list are a team clubhouse and a new scoreboard. All the funding would come from private sources.

“Hopefully, we’ll have the money by the end of the summer and have them for next season,” Price said. “They’re crucial to the future success of our program.”

In June, the KU athletic department submitted the comprehensive baseball plan to the Board of Regents, along with a previously announced plan to convert Naismith Lounge into women’s basketball offices at a cost of $292,000 and turn the old weight facility in Anschutz Pavilion into a hydrotherapy room at a cost of $243,000.

The old weight room in Anschutz was replaced last summer by the $8 million state-of-the-art Anderson Family Strength and Conditioning Center.

Reportedly, most of the funding for the baseball indoor workout facility already has been secured. The 70-foot by 90-foot insulated metal building will contain primarily individual batting cages on an artificial-turf floor. The structure would be located in foul territory down the right-field line.

Meanwhile, a one-story clubhouse would be constructed in foul territory down the left-field line at an estimated cost of $705,000. That facility would contain a locker room and showers, coaches’ offices, a laundry room and equipment storage rooms.

A new scoreboard has been thrown into the mix because the score-by-innings feature doesn’t work on the old one.

Under the Lew Perkins regime, KU is on a fast track to bring its athletic facilities up to par with its conference contemporaries. Perkins, who took over as the Jayhawks’ athletic director last July, already has secured $12 million in donations to renovate Allen Fieldhouse and to construct an adjacent Hall of Athletics.

The Hall, which will give the venerable fieldhouse a new east facade, is at least a year and a half from completion. Blueprints still have to be completed before bids can be let.

At the same time, athletic department and university officials are establishing priorities for the refurbishing of the state-owned fieldhouse.

Another athletic department renovation project was completed during the summer — $120,000 upgrade of the football practice fields south of Anschutz Pavilion.