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The Big 3

Posted on 7/3/10 at 12:09 pm
Posted by TigaB8a
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Posted on 7/3/10 at 12:09 pm
I just wanted to know why baseball can be compared to Football and Basketball as far as being a major college sport? ESPN doesnt even start showing baseball games until the regionals. They also show the lacrosse championships, would that one be 4?
Posted by Brett425
West Monroe, La.
Member since Jun 2010
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Posted on 7/3/10 at 12:10 pm to
I don't think so
Posted by KingwoodLsuFan
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Posted on 7/3/10 at 12:11 pm to
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Posted by noonan
Nassau Bay, TX
Member since Aug 2005
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Posted on 7/3/10 at 12:16 pm to
pro sports brah

that is why its concidered one of the 3.
Posted by King Joey
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Member since Mar 2004
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Posted on 7/3/10 at 12:17 pm to
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ESPN doesnt even start showing baseball games until the regionals.
Yes, they do. I saw several baseball games on the various ESPN networks during the season.

But for the most part, I think the "Big 3" in college sports is an artifact of the "Big 3" in pro sports; because the NFL, MLB and NBA are often lumped together, many consider their college counterparts similarly grouped. The NHL might seem to necessitate inclusion of college hockey, but hockey is still far too much of a regional sport (in terms of general participation; very few high school or college hockey teams outside of the far north).

But aside from that, my understanding is that in terms of participation (number of schools fielding teams) and attendance, college baseball is well removed from any other NCAA sports besides football and men's basketball. So cutting it off at three is not entirely arbitrary. But with football and men's basketball being so far above baseball (or anything else) in those terms as well as in revenue generation, there is significant justification for classifying them in their own category of two, and they often are (as in CFN's annual "Hoops and Helmets" feature).

Posted by Tiger Ugly
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2008
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Posted on 7/3/10 at 12:17 pm to
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I just wanted to know why baseball can be compared to Football and Basketball as far as being a major college sport?


Outside of LSU (where baseball is No. 2) and a handful of other schools, I don't think baseball can even remotely be considered in the Big 3.

In fact overall nationwide, women's hoops which is ridiculed here, is more popular than baseball in per-game attendance and t.v. ratings and it's not even really that close.

I think we as LSU fans like to pat ourselves on the back sometimes about what great fans we are, when in fact in football and hoops I don't see that to be the case.

But as far as baseball goes there are no other fans like LSU's. Not many other schools are fans living and dying with a sport the rest of the country scarcely notices. It's truly a special relationship.
Posted by Lacour
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Posted on 7/3/10 at 2:39 pm to
I don't understand the question.
Posted by tduecen
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Posted on 7/3/10 at 7:02 pm to
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The Big 3


Baseball makes a hell of a lot more in revenue than basketball does
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