re: Does College Baseball need to change in any significant ways?

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You mean they would have to throw more strikes or balls closer to the corner?

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I mean the vast majority of college pitchers don't have the command to pound the actual strike zone. If we had an automated strike zone with college pitchers using an MLB strike zone, most games would be complete walk fests, even more so than they are already. Most college pitchers aren't Paul Skenes or Aaron Nola.

The worst team, by walks per 9 innings, in the MLB last year was Cincinnati with 3.87 walks per 9. 13 teams were under 3 walks per 9. This year, in college baseball, with umpires who expand zones way more than umps do at the major league level, there were only 4 teams out of ~300 total teams at the D1 level who threw fewer than 3 per 9: Wofford, Wake Forest, Tennessee, and Elon.

The mean in college baseball this year was ~4.62 walks per 9 innings. LSU was slightly below the mean at 3.98.

If "throwing more strikes" was so simple a solution, walks wouldn't have been such a problem for our staff for the vast majority of this season. We weren't walking guys because the umps' zones were inconsistent. We were walking guys because we had a lot of command issues, most college pitchers do which is why they're in college and not playing pro ball.

I think our fans only remember the strikes that were called balls but don't remember the more frequent instances of balls being called strikes.