re: Final four vs baseball national championship

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The error of your argument is that NOBODY 30 feet outside of BR gives a flying fLuck about college baseball. There is a big 2, not a big 3.

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Have you seen the crowds at Arkansas, Ole Miss, Miss St, etc over the recent years? It’s not like LSU or any of these places are having full arenas for many basketball games either.
Obviously nationally college basketball is a much bigger sport but the CWS in Omaha is still a huge event.
At the end of the day it’s still the question of would you rather have a national championship or have a really good year and I’d choose a national championship every day

Why do threads always turn in a pissing match between basketball and baseball?
I’d pick baseball. I don’t think anyone is stupid that picks basketball. It’s their opinion and I respect that. Someone always has to bring in that the rest of the country doesn’t care about baseball. Well, I’m not the rest of the country.

Ok, ok, 31 feet.

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Why do threads always turn in a pissing match between basketball and baseball?
I’d pick baseball. I don’t think anyone is stupid that picks basketball. It’s their opinion and I respect that. Someone always has to bring in that the rest of the country doesn’t care about baseball. Well, I’m not the rest of the country.

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Breaking this down into the subjective and objective arguments makes the answer easy.

If its subjective, there is no right answer. You can obviously do both. Unfortunately, because of basketball being more successful in 80s and some asshat named Smoke, this has never been the case. Really, your preference is yours alone.

Now for the objective, its easily the final four. I would give up all our baseball championships to have gone to 5-6 final fours in the span of 10 years. In the year basketball preforms, it easily nets a high profit for the ath. dept. It also garners high notoriety for both athletics and the school in general. How many people know who Sister Jean is because of the NCAAT and the run to the final four. In a similar light, if baseball was as popular, something like the rally opossum story would have been talked about nationally also. But it was mainly relegated to the fans of college baseball and the university.

In summary, no one is an idiot for liking baseball over basketball or vice versa, and the choices aren't mutually exclusive. Basketball however is the more advantageous of the two sports when it comes to revenue and the schools image. That isn't really a debate.

I’d trade 5 of the six baseball championships for one basketball championship.

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