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re: Why doesn't Sportscenter ever highlight college baseball
Posted on 5/20/17 at 9:00 am to LSUstephen17
Posted on 5/20/17 at 9:00 am to LSUstephen17
In terms of national interest, college baseball falls somewhere below the national kindergarten double-dutch tournament and above the WNBA. Without the interest, they can't sell ads, and without ads they won't show it.
Keep in mind that outside of relatively small pockets of typically fairly low population areas, college baseball isn't particularly popular. In major areas you've usually got an MLB team or maybe even a solid established AAA team that the area's baseball fans are going to follow. Hell, even in the popular areas its a handful of schools that are popular enough to turn a profit with their baseball program alone. Step outside of the LSU-area bubble and you'll see that college baseball is an afterthought to most.
Keep in mind that outside of relatively small pockets of typically fairly low population areas, college baseball isn't particularly popular. In major areas you've usually got an MLB team or maybe even a solid established AAA team that the area's baseball fans are going to follow. Hell, even in the popular areas its a handful of schools that are popular enough to turn a profit with their baseball program alone. Step outside of the LSU-area bubble and you'll see that college baseball is an afterthought to most.
Posted on 5/20/17 at 11:13 am to Grilled Bald Eagle
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In terms of national interest, college baseball falls somewhere below the national kindergarten double-dutch tournament and above the WNBA. Without the interest, they can't sell ads, and without ads they won't show it.
No question, an example from my experience....
a few weeks after LSU's last CWS championship my wife and I were at Wrigley for a couple of Cub games. I had my LSU gear.
Two different folks came up to me, one from Alabama and the other from Tennessee and they had a vague notion that LSU was good at baseball because each asked me how we did in baseball that year.
"Well, we won the national title" I said. They had no idea and these were supposedly folks I would think liked baseball and were from states that had SEC schools.
Given that you could reasonably conclude the relative lack of awareness and interest in the rest of the country.
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