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re: Why isn’t college baseball pushed more as a national sport?
Posted on 6/4/23 at 7:33 pm to MasterAbe1
Posted on 6/4/23 at 7:33 pm to MasterAbe1
Because it stinks
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Posted on 6/4/23 at 8:20 pm to MasterAbe1
Because ESPN would insist on giving equal time and attention to college softball.
Posted on 6/4/23 at 8:34 pm to justaniceguy
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The fact they put women’s softball or women’s basketball over college baseball is a joke
They get better ratings
Posted on 6/4/23 at 8:36 pm to Oklahomey
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College Baseball gets more tv coverage than MiLB. In fact, I’ve never seen a MiLB game on tv.
MiLB airs all the time on Stadium affiliates. The DFW affiliate KTXD had the Toledo Mud Hens at Indianapolis Indians on earlier today.
This post was edited on 6/4/23 at 8:37 pm
Posted on 6/4/23 at 8:45 pm to Eurocat
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Because the college football and basketball are essentially the minor leagues. You watch for who will win awards because you know they will "play on Sundays".
College football was huge before pro football even existed and the NCAA basketball tournament still pulled huge ratings during the one and done era.
I think quality of play or the players has very little to do with college baseball’s lack of popularity. People watching college sports are rarely tuning in for the players unless we’re talking about the Heisman winner or a Zion Williamson type of star.
College baseball has several fundamental problems
1) Most colleges are in small towns. That’s not much of an issue if you’re playing just 1 game on a weekend, but it simply isn’t possible for fans to travel from the big city for 4 or 5 games a week.
2) There isn’t a good seasonal time to play it. From a TV perspective, it should probably run from April into August. That doesn’t correspond with most schools calendars at all though, so for half the season, the weather is too bad to attend baseball games in a lot of the country.
3) There’s more alternatives. Because baseball plays every day regardless of level, there isn’t a day that’s just college baseball. Every time you choose to watch college baseball, you could be choosing to watch MLB or the minors instead.
This post was edited on 6/4/23 at 8:46 pm
Posted on 6/4/23 at 8:46 pm to Dr RC
College Softball has always gotten much better ratings. Up here in the north, college baseball is nothing, College Lacrosse is much more popular.
Posted on 6/4/23 at 8:48 pm to MasterAbe1
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If ESPN would make games easily accessible and would talk about the sport, it will grow. This weekend on squeeze play has been excellent to watch
I agree that squeeze play was a great watch this weekend. That said, why do care if it’s popular?
I think the most appealing thing about college baseball and other minor college sports is that their lack of popularity allows them to avoid a lot of the annoying bullshite that CFB and CBB have.
Posted on 6/4/23 at 8:49 pm to TomRollTideRitter
West Coast barely cares about any college sport and up north people care about MLB.
Posted on 6/4/23 at 8:56 pm to MasterAbe1
Because the good players aren't in college
This post was edited on 6/4/23 at 8:57 pm
Posted on 6/4/23 at 9:07 pm to Sput
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Because top tier talent goes pro, second tier talent goes JUCO, and four year schools get the scraps.
I agree the absolute top tier talent goes pro from HS, but so many more elite players are going to college now than they were in the past.
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There is a reason the typical four year scholly covers a little more than books and a few meals.
Yeah, title IX and the fact that schools have to provide equal number of scholarships for women and men, and men have a sport that consumes 85 scholarships that women don’t play
Posted on 6/4/23 at 9:10 pm to MasterAbe1
Because it’s baseball.
Posted on 6/4/23 at 9:37 pm to MasterAbe1
void
This post was edited on 6/8/23 at 6:53 pm
Posted on 6/4/23 at 9:41 pm to MasterAbe1
quote:Because Alabama is 2-0 so far and in the exact same position as UF.
Why isn’t college baseball pushed more as a national sport?
Except Alabama is undefeated while UF lost to some school of the blind and barely squeaked out a win vs a HBCU.
This sport is gay.
Posted on 6/4/23 at 9:43 pm to MasterAbe1
Because it's just OK.
Posted on 6/4/23 at 10:10 pm to MasterAbe1
The best 18 years old aren’t playing college baseball. The MLB stars of tomorrow are playing in the minors
Posted on 6/4/23 at 10:50 pm to MasterAbe1
Because there are minor leagues. College football and basketball are the minors for the NFL and NBA.
Posted on 6/4/23 at 11:08 pm to MasterAbe1
Why do you think professional baseball teams have their spring training in the south?
Because the weather sucks up north until April. And even early April is sketchy.
It’s hard to build a following when you can only attend games in nice weather for 8 weeks a season… and half of those are after finals…
Because the weather sucks up north until April. And even early April is sketchy.
It’s hard to build a following when you can only attend games in nice weather for 8 weeks a season… and half of those are after finals…
Posted on 6/4/23 at 11:09 pm to 632627
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Is he seriously the only sec player in the baseball HoF?? How is that possible.
Joe Sewell (Sewell-Thomas Stadium in Tuscaloosa) was elected to the HOF in ‘77. He holds the record for the lowest strikeout rate in major league history, striking out on average only once every 73 plate appearances, and the most consecutive games without a strikeout, at 115.
Posted on 6/4/23 at 11:10 pm to MasterAbe1
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Why isn’t college baseball pushed more as a national sport?
From my POV, it’s a regional sport that most people outside of that regional bubble don’t really care about.
Posted on 6/4/23 at 11:21 pm to Sput
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There is a reason the SEC only has one member in Cooperstown and even he was on a football scholarship
PAC12 has 8, just sayin'.
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