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re: Is college baseball really # 3 national sport?
Posted on 2/21/10 at 11:20 am to fightingtiger2335
Posted on 2/21/10 at 11:20 am to fightingtiger2335
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ESPN has expanded it's NCAA tourny coverage for it.
and their expanded coverage still doesn't match the traditional amount of coverage the baseball tourney gets. And ESPN is ramping up their baseball coverage as well.
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Posted on 2/21/10 at 11:20 am to ProjectP2294
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there are 301 D1 baseball programs alone. That's not counting the D2 and 3, NAIA, and JUCOs. There are only 60 D1 hockey teams, and less than 15 D2. Most schools that have hockey teams also have baseball teams, not the other way around.
nice work project.
Ditto the summary comment that #3 goes to regional preferences.
Posted on 2/21/10 at 11:20 am to fightingtiger2335
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I agree with the niche theory...but the people saying that hockey is no where near college baseball are very narrow minded..
The problem is you used the term "national" which negates any chance of hockey coming in ahead of major sports that are played nationwide.
Posted on 2/21/10 at 11:26 am to Stagg8
quote:but college baseball isn't a major sport nation wide...outside of a few it is actually a drain on other schools as far as losing money goes.
The problem is you used the term "national" which negates any chance of hockey coming in ahead of major sports that are played nationwide.
Posted on 2/21/10 at 11:31 am to fightingtiger2335
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but college baseball isn't a major sport nation wide
college baseball closer to being a nation wide sport than college hockey
Posted on 2/21/10 at 11:33 am to fightingtiger2335
i think it would be safe to say the #3 sport (and possibly #2) varies regionally. lacross, hockey, baseball, womens bball vary in importance and talent and notability in different areas of the States
Posted on 2/21/10 at 11:37 am to fightingtiger2335
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but college baseball isn't a major sport nation wide...outside of a few it is actually a drain on other schools as far as losing money goes.
so is every other sport except for football and men's basketball, and in some cases those sports lose money too.
Posted on 2/21/10 at 11:38 am to lsufan9193969700
yall also have to remember though that there are 2 women's games a week compared to 4-5 baseball games a week. The average per game is a little deceiving
Posted on 2/21/10 at 11:39 am to fightingtiger2335
In some ways I think it is unfair to compare attendance records for baseball and wbb, because baseball is typically played in a smaller venue than basketball...at least in college. I think a better, but probably much harder if not impossible way, to determine this would be percentage of the venue filled.
I honestly don't care either way. Like someone else said, I think #3 depends on where you live. Of course college hockey is going to look like the Super Bowl in Michigan...Michigan is a big hockey state.
I honestly don't care either way. Like someone else said, I think #3 depends on where you live. Of course college hockey is going to look like the Super Bowl in Michigan...Michigan is a big hockey state.
Posted on 2/21/10 at 11:43 am to F machine
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I think a better, but probably much harder if not impossible way, to determine this would be percentage of the venue filled.
nah, thats wouldnt be hard to do
and i think it would baseball would easily have a higer %
Posted on 2/21/10 at 11:58 am to DBG
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ESPN wants you to believe that womens hoops is #3
yea it pisses me off how they have gamecasts for womens basketball but not college baseball
Posted on 2/21/10 at 12:00 pm to fightingtiger2335
if we're going on attendance only i guess its not. but if we're going on not being gay then yes its #3.
Posted on 2/21/10 at 12:08 pm to fightingtiger2335
There are two major sports-football and bball.
Then there's a gap to a set of sports that are really big in certain regional areas, but on a whole, not huge. These include baseball (which is the leader, in this group), hockey, lacrosse, and wrestling.
Then there's a gap to sports absolutely no one besides the athletes and their parents/friends care about (i.e. tennis, rifle, rowing, etc).
Then there's a gap to a set of sports that are really big in certain regional areas, but on a whole, not huge. These include baseball (which is the leader, in this group), hockey, lacrosse, and wrestling.
Then there's a gap to sports absolutely no one besides the athletes and their parents/friends care about (i.e. tennis, rifle, rowing, etc).
Posted on 2/21/10 at 12:08 pm to Feed Me Popeyes
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lacrosse is a mechanism for middle class kids with pretensions of attending an Ivy school to add to their check list of bs so they will be selected.
biggest dumbass statement of the day
and I just woke up..
Stick around. It shouldn't take too long for him to top it.
Posted on 2/21/10 at 12:09 pm to fightingtiger2335
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SEC (the biggest baseball conference) attendance records
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Arkansas 7,906
wrong
Posted on 2/21/10 at 12:11 pm to fightingtiger2335
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SEC (the biggest baseball conference) attendance records
LSU 9,596
Arkansas 7,906
Ole Miss 7,002
South Carolina 6,804
Mississippi State 6,058
Alabama 4,010
Florida 2,981
Georgia 2,917
Vanderbilt 2,431
Auburn 2,229
Kentucky 1,676
Tennessee 1,357
did you just throw darts at a dart board and come up with these numbers. half of these are ridiculously bad and not even close
Posted on 2/21/10 at 12:22 pm to fightingtiger2335
College baseball is the national #3 sport. It's just facts. Okay hockey, no one other than Eskimos in the north watch college hockey. Lacrosse, no one outside of the east coast watch it. Soccer, no one outside of the ACC cares about that shite. College baseball, sure the south loves it, but the west coast loves it, particularly in Arziona and California, the Midwest love it, and the lower parts of the east coast love college baseball too. The only parts that do not like college baseball is the northeast and the Big 10, as one poster stated earlier. So yes, college baseball is #3, as it should be.
Posted on 2/21/10 at 12:22 pm to Brageous
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Is the stadium that small? Georgia has been really good as of late and this is their record?
i mean, yeah. the capacity is just over 3000 and the record crowds are just over 4000.
Posted on 2/21/10 at 12:23 pm to Ron Mexico
Posted on 2/21/10 at 12:35 pm to fightingtiger2335
I think LSU fans don't fully understand it, because it's so huge in Baton Rouge (which is cool), but college baseball just isn't that big in a lot of other places, outside of the south. And while it may have good teams in Cali, I don't think people really follow it that much out there (could be wrong).
I posted on another thread that game 3 of the CWS last year (the championship deciding game with two huge fan bases/alumni groups) got a 2.1 rating on ESPN (which I believe was a record for college baseball). The Little Ceasars Bowl this year, between Ohio and Marshall (a meaningless bowl between two bad teams with small fanbases) got a 2.7.
I posted on another thread that game 3 of the CWS last year (the championship deciding game with two huge fan bases/alumni groups) got a 2.1 rating on ESPN (which I believe was a record for college baseball). The Little Ceasars Bowl this year, between Ohio and Marshall (a meaningless bowl between two bad teams with small fanbases) got a 2.7.
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