re: NCAA Scholarship Limits Reasoning

Title IX is an abomination. It's a travesty that it hasn't yet been done away with.

I feel one day there will be an ex-player turned lawyer that will draw a significant amount of attention to the disparity between the scholarship limit to roster size ratios for football and non-football sports. With all of the attention being paid to the "true cost of attendance" with respect to football and men's basketball scholarships, averaging 1/3 of a scholarship per baseball player should get some sympathy.

Are baseball players subject to the same work restrictions as football players?

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Sorry, but there are maybe 25-30 schools in the country that draw 2000 or more fans per game. Not many people care about college baseball outside of a few towns. As of now, i think you are stupid, but if you can provide a statistical analysis showing significant growth in college baseball attendance over the past decade then my opinion will change. Until then i will continue thinking that you are stupid.

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attendance is a poor metric to use by itself. you look at what type of monetary investments have been made. if espn is willing to invest in college baseball at the level it has, that should be all you need. literally almost every game is available to watch on TV. The ACC also has a deal. Fox Sports carries games. Back just 10 years ago, you weren't seeing many, if any, regular season games televised period. I remember in the late 90s listening to games on the radio and following them on LSUs stat tracker. No, college baseball isn't and never will be college football or basketball, but to deny its growth nation wide is either ignorance or being intentionally obtuse.

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I feel one day there will be an ex-player turned lawyer that will draw a significant amount of attention to the disparity between the scholarship limit to roster size ratios for football and non-football sports. With all of the attention being paid to the "true cost of attendance" with respect to football and men's basketball scholarships, averaging 1/3 of a scholarship per baseball player should get some sympathy.

Are baseball players subject to the same work restrictions as football players?

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Funny how most football and basketball players are black and get full scholarships.....most baseball players are white and get partial scholarships. I guess when it comes to baseball there is no white privilege?





































J/K....I know it is not race related but is all about Title IX

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if espn is willing to invest in college baseball at the level it has, that should be all you need.

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I disagree. Sure, espn broadcasts regionals, but the regular season games they show are solely due to the fact that they do whatever it takes to makes conferences happy so they can broadcast football.

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I disagree. Sure, espn broadcasts regionals, but the regular season games they show are solely due to the fact that they do whatever it takes to makes conferences happy so they can broadcast football.

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so intentionally obtuse. gotcha. why do you think espn picked up the cws from cbs and the ncaa changed the format to add a championship series instead of a one game, winner takes all, format? why did the ncaa move from 48 teams to 64 in the 1999? why did they add the super regional round in 1999? is it because college baseball has flatlined in popularity?

why is one school after another spending tens of million dollars on facility upgrades? and these are coming outside the "25-30" that actually care. if baseball has flatlined, why not just keep what they have instead of pumping more and money into the sport?

again, no baseball is not on the level of football or basketball, and it never will be. but again, you're being intentionally obtuse or ignorant to deny it has grown exponentially the past 15 years.

btw, attendance numbers have grown a lot as well. you can feel free to research those numbers

A lot of posters providing lazy responses without providing facts.

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NCAA Scholarship Limits Reasoning
A lot of posters providing lazy responses without providing facts.

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You haven't provided a single fact. Do your own homework if you doubt what people are saying. College baseball has grown across the board

Attendence went up about 30% for the 50th best number between 2005 and 2014.

ETA: 53 schools have opened new baseball parks since 2005. Out of about 300 schools. There were a lot more in the early 2000s, but I wanted to limit it to the last decade of full seasons.

Still no good facts in this thread to prove that college baseball is more popular now. Just a bunch of stuff like its on tv more and the 50th best attendance is better now that 10 years ago. Somebody provide something worth reading. Come on baseball fans.