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The Big 3
Posted on 7/3/10 at 12:09 pm
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 on 7/3/10 at 12:11 pm to TigaB8a
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This post was edited on 7/3/10 at 12:17 pm
Posted on 7/3/10 at 12:16 pm to TigaB8a
pro sports brah
that is why its concidered one of the 3.
that is why its concidered one of the 3.
Posted on 7/3/10 at 12:17 pm to TigaB8a
quote:Yes, they do. I saw several baseball games on the various ESPN networks during the season.
ESPN doesnt even start showing baseball games until the regionals.
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 on 7/3/10 at 12:17 pm to TigaB8a
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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 on 7/3/10 at 2:39 pm to TigaB8a
I don't understand the question.
Posted on 7/3/10 at 7:02 pm to TigaB8a
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The Big 3
Baseball makes a hell of a lot more in revenue than basketball does
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