Why does the nation care so little about college baseball and so much about MLB?

Boy we live in the south, football is KING!!

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College fans are absolutely passionate about their school, whether they attended it or not. They come out in droves for football and basketball, and both garner national spotlight attention. But baseball, which is a major sport in America, is mostly ignored.

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I think it is growing but you are correct, the coverage is not there yet.

Look at all the newer, bigger college ballparks coming up around the country. Give it a few more years and we will see a rise in national attention.

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It's just confusing why college baseball hasn't become more popular.

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The talent discrepancy is massive. Yes you usually have a couple of college talents that could perform average or better at AA, but college as a whole is just not as talented as even high A.

The northeast tv market gives 0 fricks about ncaa baseball.

The south is its biggest market. Nola is actually the largest college baseball viewing market

Actually most northeastern cities don't even give a shite about college football other than gambling. It's all about the pro game

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They covered some MMA nonsense and then started showing MLB highlights.

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Both of those sports have hundreds of millions of fans across the world. College baseball has maybe 1/50th of the fans, and that is being conservative.

1. The major population centers generally don't care about college sports as a whole (places like Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, maybe some of the larger cities in Ohio notwithstanding).

2. College baseball is largely a regional game because of the weather. You just can't have many home games in Feb/March in the northeast or midwest (or at least games that will be well attended)

3. The very best HS players generally forego college baseball for the minor leagues. Plus, unlike with the NBA and NFL, there is no "connection" between MLB and college baseball. With football and basketball, the best college players are selected by the pros and go directly to their pro team. The impact is immediate. With baseball, even the best college player isn't going to make an immediate jump to the majors. He could remain "hidden" in the minors for 1-2 years or more.

4. It's never really been promoted as a major sport

LSU is the unbelievably rare exception. And it's that way because the rise of LSU baseball couldn't have been timed more perfectly. As LSU baseball was ascending, football and basketball were descending. LSU football was dead in the early 90's. Basketball had superstars on the roster, but was underachieving. LSU fans hadn't seen a national champion in one of the major sports in over 30 years when Bertman won his first in '91. For the whole decade of the 90's baseball was the consistent thing LSU fans could be proud of while the other two major sports were shell's of their past glory

If LSU's run of great baseball started in the 2000's vs. the late 80's/early 90's, I think it's popularity here would be slightly above it's popularity at places like Florida or Texas A&M. Something people enjoy when the team is winning, but not a must see event

For me personally....college baseball is much better to watch than MLB.

But I prefer college sports over their pro counterparts anyday.

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this is correct. Baseball was bigger 40+ years ago, but now it's dying a slow death and losing out to other, more entertaining sports.

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Well, you're just making shite up.

Mlb viewership is up like 20% from 2014.

Mlb baseball is far from a dying sport.

Last nights game is a perfect example of why its more entertaining to watch the pros, lsu got behind because of two simple plays that werent executed by the first baseman.

Cities and areas with large populations love their MLB baseball.

The talent level is so much lower than the other college sports, for obvious reasons. End of story.

Some of you may remember the only college baseball game on TV was the final game of the CWS on ABC wide world of sports, and nobody watched that. ESPN has made it *a lot* more popular.