What's reason behind limited scholarships for baseball?

Title 9 is the reason girl sports..

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The sport is primarily white players, do you think if it were primarily black players it would be different?

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I don't understand it. There has to be a reason and I just don't know.

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There is...and it has nothing to do with

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The sport is primarily white players, do you think if it were primarily black players it would be different?

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I don't know, but read this article.

It blames NCAA scholarship limits instead of title IX.

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LSU baseball is a perennial powerhouse, with six national championships since 1991. But the Tigers find it increasingly difficult to recruit. Although the school awards 85 football scholarships -- in some years committing to more athletes than it can actually accommodate, like an airline overbooking passengers -- LSU divides just 11.7 scholarships among its baseball players.

Every year, head coach Paul Mainieri scurries around the country to offer preps a fraction of a free ride. So it's not surprising to hear that he would like more scholarships. "I don't know that I've ever had a player receive a scholarship in the amount which was commensurate to his value," he recently told the LSU student newspaper, The Daily Reveille. "It's sad, really, that college baseball is treated that way."

Skip Bertman, who coached baseball at LSU from 1984 to 2001, then built the school into a sports powerhouse as athletic director from 2001-08, believes he knows where to put the blame. "I think," Bertman said in March, "baseball is pretty much a victim of Title IX."

Surveys consistently show that Americans overwhelmingly approve of the purpose, enforcement and impact of Title IX. But the approval often comes with an undercurrent of resentment: Many supporters of men's sports harbor the bitter conviction that Title IX is killing their teams, and that only political correctness prevents the world from acknowledging it. A blogger named Eric McErlain echoed those voices in an opinion piece he wrote for The Daily Caller, a website focused mainly on breaking news and political commentary. "Why," he asks, "is ESPN ignoring the damage caused by Title IX?"

We'll answer that one: Because, Eric, Title IX is not the problem.

Colleges have indeed axed hundreds of men's teams in the Title IX era, often while explicitly scapegoating the law. And although courts have firmly rejected the argument that Title IX discriminates against men, the frustration of men's sports advocates is somewhat understandable. They've watched too many top men's programs die -- including baseball at Providence, gymnastics at Iowa State and swimming at UCLA -- while schools have rushed to provide new opportunities to women in sports such as rowing, soccer and volleyball.

But if you leave preconceptions aside and just look at the data, you will find that the real enemy of men's sports isn't Title IX. It's NCAA scholarship limits.

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It's hard to understand how LSU fans can't grasp that 95% of colleges don't give a shite about college baseball.

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But they do care about womens volleyball, softball, tennis, etc?

What is bullshite is that basketball, which starts 5 players and rotates about 8 to maybe 10, gets 13 scholarships (women's bball gets 15), and baseball which starts 10 plus relief pitching and a 35 man roster only has 11.7 scholarships. And you could go down the line with a bunch of others of course.


Women's rowing needs 20 full scholarships??

Women's sports.
As far as black baseball players - there either going pro or playing other sports. It's why Cador went to meet with MLB commish about it.
Northern schools do care about baseball but until the season is pushed back which the southern schools don't want, it will never emerge as viable up there with the weather being the major factor. I really think if they went to wood bats college baseball would become a lot more credible. The new draft rules are also having an impact on some players choosing college over MLB until more loopholes are exploited.

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It's hard to understand how LSU fans can't grasp that 95% of colleges don't give a shite about college baseball.

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and you don't think that scholarship limits in baseball have anything to do with it?

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The sport is primarily white players, do you think if it were primarily black players it would be different?

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